A quality health care system is one that provides its citizens with an equitable opportunity to be healthy.
Equity is one of the core dimensions of quality care, along with safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, efficiency and timeliness, and it is a dimension to which Health Quality Ontario pays special attention.
Earlier this year, Globe and Mail health writer André Picard wrote a column about innovation in health care. “One of the most frustrating traits of the Canadian health-care system is its failure to recognize and embrace success,” he began. “Imagine if we took all our successful local innovations and pilot programs and actually implemented them on a larger scale,” he wrote later.
On Friday, March 9, 1:30 pm ET, join Health Quality Ontario CEO Dr. Joshua Tepper, and VP of Evidence Development and Standards Dr. Irfan Dhalla, for a tweet chat to discuss the opioid crisis and pain management.
Often marked by uncertainty and anxiety, the transition from hospital to home can be a confusing time for patients and their caregivers.
These transitions from one health care team or organization to another have long been recognized as challenging times in a patient’s journey through the health care system.
Health Quality Ontario has just updated the information available on its website showing how well long-term care is being delivered in the province. It puts a fresh face on the largest, longest-running data collection and reporting system in Canada for quality of care information on long-term care homes.
With these homes having a resident population with increasingly complex care needs, the evidence suggests the quality of care provided to those residents is improving in many respects, but that more can be done.