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Designated 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 MoreBlood Monitoring for Patients on Clozapine using Point of Care testing (POCT)
Estimated Population of Canada in 2020: = 37.7 Million Schizophrenia affects 1% of Canadian population (~377,000) 1 in 3 Patients (~124,000) are Treatment Resistant (TRS) Major treatment challenges is Clozapine therapy initiation (schizophrenia diagnosis + 2 failed...
Read MoreiHuddle Boards and Process
The iHuddle Board application is a digital huddle board that is accessible to managers, staff, patients and families on each inpatient unit and Emergency Department via a 55” touchscreen monitor that allows for two-way information sharing and collaboration. The...
Read MoreMichael Garron Hospital’s Child and Youth Emergency Zone
Michael Garron Hospital (MGH) set the gold standard for paediatric emergency care when it opened its designated Child and Youth Emergency Zone on September 14th, 2021. The idea for this space came at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many primary care...
Read MoreEnabling collaborative care through information-sharing infrastructure
Our Huron-Perth IICY project is currently working to enroll network member agencies (inter-sectoral) in the adoption and use of Greenspace. Greenspace is an IT platform for addiction and mental health programs, designed to enable outcome evaluations, evidence-based...
Read MoreAssisted Dying Resource and Assessment Team (ADRAT)
In the initial three years following the legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying (2016) William Osler Health System (Osler) had created relevant policies, pathways, order sets, and had established and furnished a designated MAiD room. Despite these efforts, Osler...
Read MoreEast Effort’s Community Health Ambassadors Initiative
On December 21, 2020 the provincial government announced $12.5 million of funding for 15 high-needs communities in Ontario to help deliver key interventions in neighbourhoods that were hardest-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. These interventions were to include community...
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 MoreEthics Quality Improvement Projects (EQIPs)
Typically, clinical/ organizational consultations are core activities of healthcare Ethicists. Clinical consultations tend to deal with challenges involving a particular patient, while organizational consultations tend to deal with challenges faced by the organization...
Read MoreCommunity Rehabilitation Worker Role for Remote First Nations in Northwestern Ontario
In 2017, St. Joseph’s Care Group (SJCG) Northwest Regional Rehabilitative Care Program (RRCP) formally identified significant gaps in rehabilitative services throughout remote Indigenous communities. Gaps include a need to improve rehabilitation programming to support...
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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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