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Health Quality Connect
THE LATEST NEWS FROM HEALTH QUALITY ONTARIO
Let's Make Our Health System Healthier
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These six domains of health care quality can be used by everyone as we work together to improve.
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CHANGE DAY (IS COMING TO) ONTARIO ON NOVEMBER 17, 2017
A growing global movement rooted in health system improvement is coming to Ontario.
Change Day is about individual people – patients, caregivers, providers and leaders of all kind – each pledging to make a change. Any change – big or small. But most importantly, it’s about people connecting through their ideas and stories; sharing them through social media; and ultimately, helping to improve health care for patients and providers alike.
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March 23: Quality Rounds Ontario
Join us tomorrow, March 23rd from
12:00 to 1:00 p.m. to learn about:
Health Quality Ontario’s Patient Engagement Framework:
A common approach to creating a strong culture of patient engagement to support high quality health care.
Attend in person, via OTN or webinar
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APPLY TO JOIN THE ONTARIO QUALITY STANDARDS COMMITTEE
We're looking for health care professionals, patients, family members, or other kinds of informal caregivers to join our Ontario Quality Standards Committee.
This committee plays a key role in advancing Health Quality Ontario's quality standards program, while also playing a broader role in Ontario's health care system. Join us in shaping health care quality.
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Online Reporting Gets a New Look!
Health Quality Ontario has improved the user experience – with improved navigation and easier to read graphs – on how it reports health system performance indicators for the primary care, long-term care and home care sectors.
SEE THE CHANGES
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QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PLANS: DUE APRIL 1ST
Webinars to support organizations in submitting their Quality Improvement Plans continue until March 29th for Primary Care, Long-Term Care and Home Care sectors.
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Our Patient, Family and Public Advisors Council: Meet Our Newest Members
Ten new faces just joined Health Quality Ontario's Patient, Family and Public Advisor's Council.
The Council - now totalling 24 members - brings together the voices of patients and caregivers from across the province to guide everything we do.
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UPDATE ON MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTIONS PARTNERSHIP
The Excellence in Quality Improvement Project (E-QIP) aims to make mental health and addictions care better by supporting community-based service providers in building their skills and quality improvement mechanisms.
The collaborative initiative of Addictions and Mental Health Ontario, Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA Ontario) and Health Quality Ontario published their Winter E-QIP News with progress updates and resources for quality improvement.
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REPORT CHARTS SURGICAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT NETWORK PROGRESS
Our new report “Improving Surgical Care in Ontario” details the leadership of surgical teams in driving collective learning, sharing and innovations to improve surgical care.
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APPLY NOW: IDEAS ADVANCED LEARNING PROGRAM
Designed for emerging and established health care professionals to gain the knowledge and practical skills for leading quality improvement initiatives.
Applications due May 15, 2017; classes start in September.
APPLY NOW
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Blog: Equity - Part of Quality Care
Conscious efforts to make care more equitable are happening every day in Ontario’s health system:
In North Bay, the Nurse Practitioner-Led Primary Care Clinic is aiming to improve the patient experience for Indigenous clients by...
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Follow Us on Twitter
We appreciate it when you share our work on social media, and always make every effort to engage with you both online and offline. Here are some recent social media highlights:
@KGHConnect: Are you curious about how our #health system is performing? Data available from @HQOntario #ygk (see new health system performance data)
@eddeestyle: Fantastic spread of our OM3 structured approach to Morbidity & Mortality rounds! @emergmedottawa @HQOntario (read article from the Saskatoon Health Region)
@SouthEastLHIN: "Quality care means safe, patient-centred, effective, efficient, timely and equitable health care" @HQOntario Dr. Turnbull #PatientsFirst (see tweet)
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