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Integrated Client Care teams map value from the client’s perspective
A 12-foot-long river of white paper is awash in more than 200 sticky notes. Welcome to value stream mapping, an intensive exercise in which providers collectively analyze and redesign their work processes to improve the quality of their efforts. We take you to a recent session in Brampton for the Integrated Client Care Project. More>

Start small, think big – how one QI program helps transform a hospital
At Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital in Burlington, the recent wrap-up of their formal work with the Emergency Department Process Improvement Program (ED PIP) was a beginning more than an ending. “Now we’re transferring the same principles of systematic quality improvement across our hospital,” says CEO Eric Vandewall. More>

Releasing Time to Care© pilot sites spread their success
Seven months into Ontario’s pilot of Releasing Time to Care©, the four participating hospitals are reaping the rewards of their efforts and have started to spread successful change ideas to other units. More>

Interested in being part of Releasing Time to Care©?
At the end of the pilot phase in August, CHQI will evaluate the outcomes to identify opportunities to further adapt and spread Releasing Time to Care© in Ontario. Hospitals interested in participating in a future phase of Releasing Time to Care© are invited to contact project lead Kim Stelmacovich at kstelmacovich@changefoundation.com.

Forum explores improving access to ED and community services for mental health and addictions For people with complex mental illness and addictions, the emergency department may be the place they turn to in a crisis. CHQI recently collaborated with a diverse group of organizations in planning a forum that highlighted how a quality improvement approach to system issues of access could help to ensure that such people receive needed services in the most appropriate way. More>

Quality By Design: more than a great book
High Performing Healthcare Systems: Delivering Quality By Design is getting fresh press since the tabling of Ontario’s Excellent Health Care For All Act. Here’s a reminder that the extensive Quality By Design project produced more than a valuable book. Explore the Quality By Design Knowledge Translation Kit on CHQI’s website, along with many other Resources & Tools to support your quality improvement work. Quick links

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CHQI website Contact us The Centre for Healthcare Quality Improvement at The Change Foundation
Building on lessons from high-performing healthcare systems around the world, the Centre’s mission is to accelerate quality improvement in Ontario’s healthcare system in areas of provincial strategic priority.

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