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Combined Heat and Power Generation
The Bayview Campus of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto supports nearly 1100 patient beds and spans three million square feet. We installed an 8-megawatt gas turbine combined heat and power (CHP) generator with exhaust heat recovery to supply 85% of our...
Read MoreDesignated Care Partners: A Model for Care Partnership during the Pandemic and Beyond
Family presence policies in Canadian hospitals have increased from 32% in 2015 to 73% in 2020, demonstrating a commitment family members as partners in care (CFHI, 2020). However, widespread visitor restrictions at healthcare facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic...
Read MoreFoundry’s use of the Fulop Typology of Integration
Foundry is a network of Integrated Youth Services (IYS) in British Columbia, Canada. Our service model offers a seamless experience from the moment young people and their caregivers walk through the doors to when they are connected with a service provider best suited...
Read MoreCo-designing Consent for Integrated Youth Hubs
The Grove is an Integrated Youth Hub providing equitable access to quality, evidence-informed, youth-specific interventions matched to the level of need for youth aged 12-26. These hubs, supported by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) and Youth Wellness...
Read MoreA Personalized Assessment for Hospital Acquired Conditions
The balance sheets represent the infections/colonizations within a care unit. With the use of a one-pager, and in one single glance (with figures and not statistics and pictograms), everyone can understand the epidemiological evolution by finding recommendations to...
Read MoreCo-designed Course Promotes Reporting and Learning from Patient Safety Incidents
The BC Patient Safety & Learning System (PSLS) has revised its Patient Safety e-learning module for health care providers, students, and volunteers across BC. The module bridges across sectors and disciplines to promote a standardized, best-practice approach to...
Read MoreResponsive Behaviours in Dementia: Novel Virtual Behavioural Support Model During COVID-19
Severe responsive behaviours in dementia represent a crisis of growing proportion affecting individuals in long-term care, acute care, and the community. In response, Baycrest developed the Virtual Behavioural Medicine Program, a novel virtual medical and behavioural...
Read MoreAntimicrobial Stewardship – Indication Prompt for Antimicrobial Orders
Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASP) are well established across the health care continuum and are essential to supporting the optimal use of antibiotics for improved patient health outcomes. Education to inform and engage prescribers/ clinicians in stewardship...
Read MoreDaily Quality Monitoring at the CSSS Richelieu Yamaska
The aim of the project was to develop a culture of continuous quality improvement by motivating the Richelieu-Yamaska teams on a daily basis to optimize the patient experience. A number of factors played a part in the project’s implementation. Patient visits since...
Read MoreHow Health Systems can Operationalize Accreditation to Support Multiple Sites Across a Broad Geographical Area
In 2019 the Accreditation methodology within Alberta Health Services (AHS) changed to include attestation, assessing multiple standards at sites and programs, and unannounced survey visits. Using the new approach in the Central Zone, which is supported by two...
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Health Standards Organization (HSO) and its affiliate, Accreditation Canada, have been identifying and publishing Leading Practices in the Leading Practices Library for over 15 years.
A Leading Practice is an innovative, people-centred, evidence-informed practice that has been implemented by teams in an organization. The leading practice has demonstrated a positive change related to safe and reliable care/service, accessible and appropriate care/service, and/or integrated care/service.
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