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Hip and Knee Surgery Best Practices Initiative
Closing the Gap Healthcare Group (CTGHG) partnered with the Holland Orthopaedic & Arthritic Centre in a quality improvement strategy to ensure that CTGHG clients with joint replacement surgery were receiving best practice care. CTGHG staff were provided with...
Read MoreBuilding Ethical Decision-Making Capacity
Closing the Gap Healthcare Group partnered with an external ethics consultant to develop an ethics program focused on building capacity for ethical decision making among its 500 community health care service providers. The goal was to enhance client-centered care...
Read MorePixalere Incision Module
Wound care is an ongoing, important issue with many home care clients. The efforts and resources provided by the home care staff using the Pixalere system, together with the support and consultation of RNs with specialized training in wound care management, have...
Read MoreExpected Death Protocol and Resources
A group of palliative physicians in the community has prepared an expected death protocol and resources. This originated in Kingston and has been in place about six years. It provides practice direction to nurses and health professionals. The protocol enables nurses...
Read MoreWorkSafe Program
The WorkSafe Program is an initiative of the Ontario Zone CHS H.R. Department and was developed and implemented by their Occupational Health & Safety staff. The program focuses on keeping staff safe from work place injury. The strength of the WorkSafe program is...
Read MoreDevelop Client Focused Strategies to Improve Client Satisfaction Using Lean Six Sigma
Over the past years; many health-care providers including Community Care Access Centers (CCACs) have begun to conduct regular surveys of the experiences of their patients and clients in order to support quality improvement. These surveys are also becoming an integral...
Read MoreSimple Comforts and Ideas to Action Innovation Funds
VHA Home HealthCare’s vision, mission, and core beliefs include a commitment to serving vulnerable clients. To that end, two distinct funds were initiated in 2009 to help staff provide assistance to clients with an urgent need, or for implementing an innovative change...
Read MoreIntegrated Care for Complex Populations
Integrated Care for Complex Populations is a highly innovative practice within the Toronto Central (TC) Local Health Integration Network (LHIN). The practice involved creating a unique cross-sectorial group of organizations including primary care, specialty care,...
Read MoreRed Cross Care Partners Community Stroke Model
Red Cross Care Partners is a contracted service provider agency with the Waterloo Wellington Community Care Access Center (CCAC) , providing Rehabilitation, Nursing and Community Support Worker services. Red Cross Care Partners has secured a service agreement with the...
Read MoreOptimization of In-Home Occupational Therapy Services
In October 2010, the number of elderly people waiting for in-home occupational therapy services was high and the large number of sick leaves and lack of occupational therapists was affecting the organization’s ability to provide these services. These destabilizing...
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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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