Helping you breathe

Choosing services with Trillium Health Partners ProResp provides you with the comfort of knowing that when you leave the hospital, you can bring the highest quality care home with you.  

The Trillium Health Partners ProResp partnership is a joint venture between Trillium Health Partners and ProResp, Ontario’s largest community respiratory therapy provider.

Hospital care that comes home with you

This partnership ensures that before you leave the hospital your home care respiratory therapists are working in collaboration with your hospital’s team to get you home and help keep you there.

  • Not many people get a second chance at life, but that is exactly what happened to Benny. And he is determined to make the most of it.

    Benny was diagnosed with interstitial lung disease in 2020 and started on home oxygen therapy. “At first I only needed it at a low rate to help me sleep through the night,” Benny told us. “But over time my condition worsened, and I needed it more and more.”

    One day, his breathing got so bad that Benny had to be hospitalized. Thanks to a partnership between Trillium Health Partners and ProResp, Benny met the ProResp team in the hospital. He was so pleased with his first impression, Benny decided to switch from his previous oxygen provider to ProResp.

    “When I was released from hospital, somehow, they beat me home. ProResp was already there waiting for me in the driveway,” recalled Benny. “They set me up with liquid oxygen, which was much better for meeting my needs, and the customer service levels were beyond anything I’d previously experienced,” added Benny.

    With Benny’s condition worsening, he was added to the lung transplant waitlist. It was a tense time, but in November, 2023, he received a new set of lungs.

    “I was supposed to be in hospital 8 weeks and I was out in ten days,” Benny beamed of his recovery. “I was wheeled in there in a wheelchair and I walked out on my own two feet with no tubes.”

    Benny’s wife, Erica, was a rock of support for him. But so were his team at ProResp. “Elvis, Mary Ann and Johnny were amazing,” Benny said of his ProResp team. “The whole team treated us like family. After my surgery, it was bittersweet. It was sad to say goodbye, but I was also so happy to have a new shot at life. I felt like a whole new person.”

    Recently, when Benny was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea, he knew just who to call. “When they told me I needed CPAP therapy, I immediately thought of ProResp,” said Benny. “From day 1 it has helped me sleep better. The people at ProResp are just so knowledgeable and supportive. And my RT Dejan is one of my neighbours!”

    Thanks, Benny, for making us part of your inspiring journey!

Why a partnership?

The support you get at home is as important as the care you receive in your community hospital.  That is why the Trillium Health Partners ProResp partnership constantly measures the care we deliver and reports patient satisfaction to Trillium Health Partners leadership and ProResp. With the joint oversight of Trillium Health Partners and ProResp, you can be confident you are getting the best care, getting you back to doing what you love.  

What are the benefits?

Patients who choose Trillium ProResp tend to spend less time in hospital, because their care team can be confident they will get the support they need at home. Research shows those with COPD are less likely to be readmitted to hospital within 30 days, because their needs are being met at home by a team that works closely with your community hospital. Trillium ProResp is an innovative service provider that gives patients access to all current technology and equipment in delivering respiratory therapy.

How does it work?

Trillium ProResp is a patient-centred partnership between Trillium Health Partners and ProResp, an Ontario-owned provider of community respiratory therapy.

The partnership helps strengthen health care in your community using a patient-first approach.

This integrated care model allows Trillium Health Partners’s frontline caregivers and management to work directly with ProResp’s frontline caregivers and management to ensure you get the best care possible.

Our teams regularly measure patient satisfaction and performance and report this information back to senior management of the hospital and ProResp.

Patient and family choice is paramount in selecting the community respiratory therapy provider you want to be served by. Patient surveys and feedback consistently show those who choose the Trillium Health Partners ProResp partnership are glad they did.

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