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Health units worried about province’s plans to consolidate 35 agencies into 10
Monday, May 20th, 2019
The planned transformation comes as the government lowers its public health spending, requiring municipalities to contribute millions more to their health budgets than anticipated. By 2021-2022, the provincial cut is expected to be $200 million annually… The consolidation will nonetheless mean that health units will have to serve larger geographic regions, which include communities with different needs.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, participation
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Getting Connected: Digital Health and Information Sharing under Bill 74
Monday, May 6th, 2019
After the first year of implementation, Ontario Health Team Candidates are expected to meet the following criteria: have a harmonized information management plan in place; increase adoption of relevant digital health tools; and
have plans in place to streamline and integrate point of service systems and use data to support patient care and population health management… The backbone of integration will be the ability to share information.
Tags: Health, mental Health
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Ontario’s health system needs change. But has Ford got it right?
Friday, April 26th, 2019
In the next layer, you will find 10 public-health organizations, down from 35, and 10 ambulance organizations, down from 59. One might have thought that these 10 new service areas might have been married up with 10 health regions, but alas, no… it’s still a simpler structure than what it replaced. What’s not yet known is how the Ford health-care regime will work in real life and how it will get local health professionals to work together.
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Ontario Health Teams: Integrated Governance and Funding
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
The self-assessment form requires each applicant… to demonstrate: a history of formally working with other providers or organizations to advance integrated care; a plan for physician and clinical engagement, including physician and clinical leadership as part of the team’s leadership and governance structure; a commitment to the vision and goals of the Ontario Health Team model; a commitment to a central brand; and a commitment to working together towards a single clinical and fiscal accountability framework.
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Designation Process for Ontario Health Teams
Friday, April 19th, 2019
… a new model to integrate care and funding that will enable patients, families, communities and providers to better work together… will be referred to below) as “Ontario Health Teams”… The purpose of this bulletin is to provide an overview of the application process for Ontario Health Teams… Significant dates in respect of the process for designation as an Ontario Health Team are included…
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation
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In Ontario, a battle for the soul of psychiatry
Sunday, April 7th, 2019
The ministry’s proposed new approach, modelled on U.S.-style, managed care, is designed to limit the type and amount of treatment individual patients will receive, regardless of their presenting symptoms… If it goes through, it will be the biggest change in psychiatry in the history of the discipline in Canada, and turn psychiatrists from “treaters” into “consultants” who will diagnose patients in a single session, and make recommendations for others to follow, then wave goodbye.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Ontario’s response to the opioid crisis? Offer less help, and fewer answers
Monday, April 1st, 2019
Using Orwellian doublespeak – plus a dash of Trumpian random capitalization – the government was not announcing that it was “continuing to build a connected mental health and addictions treatment system”, but rather that it was cutting the legs from under four badly-needed overdose prevention sites, rejecting two others, and continuing to drag its feet on funding of additional sites.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, youth
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On Pharmacare, the Liberals offer big questions and small investments
Wednesday, March 20th, 2019
… If [the federal government] were to directly fund and manage drug coverage, there would be less integration in the management of overall health care costs and provinces would have less incentive for cost-effective choices between drugs and other inputs to health care… One hopes that the final report on the Implementation of National Pharmacare will… clarify the intended scope of public drug coverage and Ottawa’s intended role in a new national pharmacare system.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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A glimpse into the future of health care in Ontario
Sunday, March 3rd, 2019
St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton, specifically at its Integrated Comprehensive Care (ICC) program… started as a pilot back in 2012. Known then as the “bundled care” program, it was designed to connect surgical patients with a single team of clinicians who could care for them before, during and after their operations… It has resulted in a savings of up to $4,000 per patient, a 30 per cent reduction in emergency department visits and 30 per cent reduction in hospital readmissions, a savings of more than 30,000 bed days and an increase in patient satisfaction, according to the hospital.
Tags: budget, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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The Ford government’s health reform is clear as mud
Friday, March 1st, 2019
The possibility that these teams, which might include doctors and hospitals, along with home care agencies and long-term care homes, could share one budget has the potential to deliver positive change. It would provide a clearer incentive to ensure that patients can access the right care in the right place, which generally costs far less than waiting for things to escalate into crisis. But if this is also the government’s way to shave dollars out of the health budget, that potential goes right out the window.
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