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Engaging Patients to Select Indicators for Patient Safety Measurement and Reporting
Health Quality Ontario (HQO) revised its patient safety indicators and how they are reported to ensure patients can easily access and use high-quality performance data to inform their care. To do this, HQO asked Ontario-based members of Patients for Patient Safety...
Read MoreReducing Wait Times for Autism Assessment While Adding Value to Family and Clinician Experience
The BC Autism Assessment Network team at Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children (SHHC) used family and clinician feedback to adapt an arena assessment model of care that trained speech language pathologists (SLPs) to provide developmental assessments. Using a team...
Read MoreTracheostomy Safety Initiative in Standard Room Set-up: A Hospital and Patient Caregiver Collaboration
McMaster Children’s Hospital’s Pediatric Complex Care Inpatient Unit opened in July 2016. Children with medical complexity, when admitted to hospital, are now cohorted in effort to improve patient experience, optimize care and enhance skill set of nurses/health care...
Read MoreFamily Volunteers or Advisors Gathering Real-time Patient Experiences
Within health care organizations, such as Alberta Health Services (AHS), gathering ‘real-time’ patient experiences about the quality, safety and timeliness of care they received, their interactions with healthcare providers and their engagement in care decisions and...
Read MoreFamily Navigation Project
Although an estimated 20% of children and youth experience mental health and/or addictions (MHA) issues, over 70% of those in need of care do not receive appropriate services. The youth MHA care system is laden with barriers that result in complex, unclear pathways...
Read MoreConnecting Care to Home: Optimizing Care for COPD and CHF Patients in London Middlesex (CC2H)
Connecting Care to Home (CC2H) is an integrated, multi-disciplinary team approach across care settings (hospital, community and primary care), developed to support patients with chronic diseases. It was selected by MOH-LTC to better integrate care for specific cohorts...
Read MorePartnering with Clients and Communities to Improve Healthcare Access and Services for Trans and Gender Diverse Populations
Transgender healthcare access issues are prominent in Canada and worldwide, with significant health gaps in access to skilled primary care, emergency and specialty care services, which may include, for some individuals, access to medically necessary surgical services....
Read MoreEngaging Clients and Families in Care: Implementation of the connect2care Consumer Health Portal
The existence of web-based portals and electronic health records are making it much easier for clients (children and youth) and families to access health information in a timely and convenient manner. This access has the potential to promote enhanced activation in...
Read MoreGeriatric Dementia Care at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences
Introduction In 2012, Dr. Samir K. Sinha, the Provincial Lead for the Ontario Senior’s Strategy called for a comprehensive provincial geriatric strategy. This important work was the catalyst for Independence, activity and good health, Ontario’s action plan for...
Read MoreMentoring, Education, and Clinical Tools for Addiction: Primary Care – Hospital Integration
In the META:PHI care model, patients presenting to any health care setting (primary care, emergency department, hospital, etc.) with an alcohol- or opioid-related condition receive highly effective, evidence-based treatment, and upon discharge are referred to a Rapid...
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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 a practice carried out by a health and/or social service organization that has demonstrated a positive change, is people centred, safe and efficient. The Leading Practices Library is a knowledge sharing resource of innovative practices that have been identified through a rigorous evaluation process, and shared with the public, policy makers and organizations who are seeking ways to improve the quality of health services for all. Practices that are recognized as Leading Practices are published in the Leading Practices Library and also be advertised through HSO outreach events such as seminars, conferences, education materials; accrediting bodies affiliated with HSO etc.
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