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Reducing Emergency Room Visits for Opioid Overdose and Improving Care

META:PHI (Mentoring, Education, and Clinical Tools for Addiction: Primary Care-Hospital Integration) is providing better and faster care to people with opioid and alcohol addictions. The project has spread to seven communities across Ontario thanks to ARTIC (Adopting Research to Improve Care).

Early results show that hospitals in these communities are seeing fewer emergency room visits and hospitalizations, and patients are having significantly improved care experiences because of new follow-up treatment programs and expanded community supports.

Take a Lead in Bringing Change Day to Ontario!

Are you someone who is passionate about health care improvement, brings energy and creativity to your role and can motivate team members?

Change Day Ontario is looking for people like you to be ambassadors for this growing global movement that is coming to Ontario.  It’s about supporting people with first-hand experience in health care to make a pledge that will deliver positive change.

Ambassadors will champion the movement within their organizations by engaging others, and by celebrating colleagues as they pledge to advance compassionate quality care in their own personal way.

Apply Now for the 2017 Minister's Medal

Applications for the 2017 Minister's Medal Honouring Excellence in Health Quality and Safety are now available.

Presented at Health Quality Transformation 2017, the theme of this year's awards is Patients as Partners. This year, there will be three awards given to:

• Teams working together to provide excellence in patient-centred care,
• An individual provider who has demonstrated dedication, vision and leadership in championing high quality patient-centred care, and
• For the first time, a patient, family and/or caregiver will receive an award for enhancing patient engagement in their community.

Apply by 5:00 p.m. on August 8, 2017.

Learn How to Evaluate and Measure Your Patient Engagement Activities

We've added new resources to our online patient engagement hub, including a toolkit for evaluating engagement in research and health care settings. It's from The Centre for Excellence on Partnership with Patients and the Public.

Spotlight: Antibiotic Reduction Initiative at Michael Garron Hospital

Toronto's Michael Garron Hospital has come up with a novel solution to reduce the use of antibiotics in the emergency department - because they are frequently prescribed, leading to associated adverse events.

Read about their Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, led by Dr. Jeff Powis, on Quorum – an online forum for the quality improvement community to share, learn and innovate together.

Read Our Three New Health Technology Assessment Reviews and Recommendations

1. Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device with Delivery System: an alternative to treatment with oral anticoagulants in people with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.
2. Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy: a surgical procedure for children with spastic cerebral palsy.
3. Robotic Surgical System for Radical Prostatectomy: a surgical approach to remove the prostate gland.