Summary
Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, will be at Michael Garron Hospital, a member of the East Toronto Health Partners Ontario Health Team, tomorrow afternoon to announce Ontario’s plan to enable integrated and innovative models of home and community care through the introduction of the Connecting People to Home and Community Care Act
Today, patients receive home and community care based on outdated models first developed in the 1990s. We are breaking down long-standing barriers that have separated home care from primary care and, in doing so, allowing for the seamless coordination of services for patients while maintaining and strengthening oversight and accountability measures.
Key Messages
- As part of the province’s comprehensive plan to build healthier communities and end hallway health care, Ontario is modernizing the delivery of home and community care services by bringing an outdated system designed in the 1990s into the 21st century.
- Ontario is announcing the government’s plan to enable integrated and innovative models of home and community care through the introduction of the Connecting People to Home and Community Care Act and new regulations under the Connecting Care Act, 2019.
- We are breaking down long-standing barriers that have separated home care from primary care and, in doing so, allowing for the seamless coordination of services for patients while maintaining and strengthening oversight and accountability measures.
- If passed, the legislation will allow Ontario Health Teams to deliver more innovative models of home and community care.
- Patients will benefit from primary care, hospitals, home and community care and long-term care providers being able to collaborate to provide care that best meets individual care needs.
- Ontario Health Teams will work together to understand a patient’s full health care history, directly connect them to the different types of care they need and help patients 24/7 in navigating the health care system.
News Links
English: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/55897/ontario-modernizing-delivery-of-home-and-community-care