Inpatient care is becoming more complex and more important. The importance of care and complexity of issues faced by these children and their families has increased dramatically in recent years. Interdisciplinary care teams help child, family, and community cope with these issues. Working together with professionals, agencies, families, and others in the Maritimes is important to ensure that the IWK offers the best care, teaching of health professionals and families and promoting research initiatives. Research, along with education and clinical care, is one of the three essential activities of our Health Centre.
All participation is voluntary.
Bilingual Services Bilingual Services provides or coordinates interpretive services for patients, families, and health care providers through the IWK Health Centre. She also coordinates the translation of documents into French and proofreads them upon completion. Communication is very important to the mission, vision, and strategic directions of the Health Centre. The majority of health care providers can communicate only in the English language and a significant number of our patients and families do not have English as a first language. Bilingual Services strives to provide families with the information they require to make informed choices regarding the health care they receive.