Reshaping Healthcare Service and Delivery to Meet Changing Needs
Spotlight
June 21, 2019Improving Quality and Performance in Ontario’s Cancer Services: Lessons for Constructing a Learning Healthcare System
Terrence Sullivan introduces this special issue of Healthcare Quarterly (from 2015) on Cancer Care Ontario's focus on Quality, Performance and Partnership and how it puts patients and the public at the centre.
"The story of CCO is rooted in its early origins as the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation. Some of the early evolution and more recent challenges are documented, respectively, by Cowan (2008), Hayter (1998) and Sullivan et al. (2003).
The history of relevance begins with the discovery of radium, the appointment of a provincial medical registrar for cancer and the creation of a small number of regional cancer centres co-located on the site of academic health science centres, but housed separately and governed separately from the hospital services on which much ancillary care was dependent. Following the Cody Commission recommendations (1932), OCTRF came into existence through an act of the provincial legislature in 1943, and the statute remains the governing legislation to this day."
Events
See the slide presentations from some of this year’s speakers.
Helen Angus, Deputy Minister,
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Ontario Health
Barb Collins, President & CEO
Humber River Hospital
Healthcare’s Digital Future – Creating a Better Tomorrow
Bernard Lord, Chief Executive Officer
Medavie
Reshaping Healthcare Service and Delivery to Meet Changing Needs
Dr. Mark Britnell, Global Chairman & Senior Partner, Healthcare, Government & Infrastructure
KPMG International
Human: Solving the Global Workforce Crisis in Healthcare
Click here to see videos of past Breakfast with the Chiefs events.
From the Archives
A Model of Care for Osteoarthritis of the Hip and Knee: Development of a System-Wide Plan for the Health Sector in Victoria, Australia
Articles
The Nursing Human Resource Planning Best Practice Toolkit: Creating a Best Practice Resource for Nursing Managers
Preventing and Managing Conflict: Vital Pieces in the Patient Safety Puzzle
Using SBAR to Communicate Falls Risk and Management in Inter-professional Rehabilitation Teams
Clinical Nurse Specialists and Nurse Practitioners: Title Confusion and Lack of Role Clarity
News
New centre at McMaster University to tackle the antibiotic resistance crisis
2019-06-24 from thespec.com A $7-million donation is allowing McMaster University to establish a new research centre dedicated to tackling the antibiotic resistance crisis. The David Braley Centre f [...]
'Back office' health agency jobs to be cut: Source
2019-06-21 from torontosun.com Employers will begin issuing pink slips to 416 administrative “back office” employees in the LHINs and six other provincial health-care agencies Wednes [...]
AdvantAge Ontario Welcomes New Minister of Long-Term Care
Toronto, Ontario, June 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AdvantAge Ontario CEO, Lisa Levin, welcomes the appointment of Merilee Fullerton as Ontario’s new Minister of Long-Term Care. “I [...]
Editor's Picks
Background: With the increasing development and integration of information and communication technology (ICT) into hospitals, there remains a lack of understanding of the impact of these technologies on the hospital's largest core users: nurses. Humber River Hospital (HRH), one of the first hospitals to completely integrate technology across all hospital systems and workflows, has sought to understand how ICTs have transformed the clinical working environment. Objective: The aim of the study wa [...]
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Careers
Assistant Manager of Care (Assistant Director of Care)
Sunnyside Home, Region of Waterloo, Kitchener, ON
Chief Nursing Executive & Clinical Services
Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare, Bracebridge and Huntsville, ON
Family Physician
Hay River Health & Social Services Authority, Hay River, NT
Registered Occupational Therapist
Hay River Health & Social Services Authority, Hay River, NT
Registered Midwife
Hay River Health & Social Services Authority, Hay River, NT
Medical Sonographer
Hay River Health & Social Services Authority, Hay River, NT
Associate Dean
BCIT, Vancouver, BC
Vice President, Medical Affairs, St. Joseph’s Health Centre
Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON
Chief of Staff
Halton Healthcare, Oakvile, ON
Senior Director, Clinical Practice
Shannex, Halifax, NS
National Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Toronto, ON
Multimedia
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How to restart, and keep a donor heart beatingCanadian MDs to restart hearts of the recently dead as new source of donor hearts
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Breakfast with the ChiefsHealthcare’s Digital Future – Creating a Better Tomorrow