Media

Press and media inquiries

Help Now Healthcare is a Canadian home care provider and healthcare staffing agency, with our head office in Mississauga, Ontario. We are glad to speak to journalists working on stories about home care, caregiving, healthcare staffing and the pressures on community health services.

Contact for media

Email us

Please include your outlet, your deadline and the angle you are working on. We will come back to you with a named spokesperson or a written statement.

info@helpnowhealthcare.com

Call us

Our line is answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Ask for the media contact and we will route your call.

1-888-507-6236 (toll-free)

What we can speak to

  • What home care actually involves day to day, and how families decide when it is time
  • The staffing shortage in hospitals, long-term care and retirement homes, and how agencies fill gaps
  • Personal support worker recruitment, training and retention
  • Caring for someone with dementia at home, and supporting family caregivers through respite
  • Palliative and end-of-life care outside a hospital setting
  • What discharge home from hospital looks like when the support is or is not in place

We do not discuss individual clients, their families or their health information with media under any circumstances. Requests that would identify a client will be declined.

About Help Now Healthcare

Founded in 2016 and a registered entity since 2020, Help Now Healthcare provides home care to families and supplies screened healthcare professionals to hospitals, long-term care and retirement homes, clinics and community organizations. We serve communities across Ontario and take staffing requests from organizations across Canada and the United States.