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We are an independent policy think tank, intent on changing the health-care debate, health-care practice and the health-care experience in Ontario.
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Exchanges & EventsGeneral Events | Meeting of the Minds | Other Exchanges In its strategic plan, The Change Foundation promised to drive informed public debate through active engagement with decision-makers. To this end, the Foundation holds a series of signature events throughout the year tailored to targeted audiences to advance an honest exchange of views – and sometimes actions -- among participants. These sessions are designed to present and provoke the latest evidence, analysis, experience, and insights on a range of timely topics requiring "our finest thought." The Foundation hosts a series of learning exchanges tailored to different audiences -- all intended to drive public and policy discussion that will inform our collective understanding of what it takes to successfully and measurably integrate health-care services in Ontario.
The Change Foundation brought in The Institute of Healthcare Improvement's Barbara Balik to present our 3rd Hot Talk on Health in partnership with the School of Public Policy, U of T. Watch a video of her dynamic keynote, Making Sense of Patient Experience - Partnering with Patients and Families - Part 1 & Part 2 and read her presentation (pdf). Balik's well-evaluated talk was followed by spirited and thoughtful reflections by a panel of august Ontarians: Susan Eng, VP, Advocacy, Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP), Danielle Martin, Chair, Canadian Doctors for Medicare, and Adalsteinn Brown, Chair, Public Health Policy, Dalla Lana School of Public Health U of T, and former ADM of Health. Finally, hear a lively Q & A from the floor with a lead question from the Patients' Association of Canada. We also recommend the following paper by Balik.
Rt. Hon. Baroness of Old Scone, Barbara Young was our guest speaker who's talk was titled Health and Social Reform in a Cold Climate. See the video playback. This noted UK health leader incisively deconstructs the potential impact of radical NHS restructuring just started and still underway on quality and patient care. Also view a panel discussion from-the-day on implications and learning for Ontario, featuring: Ross Baker, Carolyn Baker, and Ben Chan, (agenda). And, get the latest on the UK's fast changing health-care landscape, by visiting the Commission on Leadership and Management in the NHS.
April 26, 2010 Read the symposium agenda. See symposium videos. Case Studies: 2. Funding Incentives for Integrating Patient Care in Ontario, A U.S. case study: Federally-Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), Joni M. Steinman, April 2010 Background papers: 2. Service-Based Funding and Paying for Performance – A Briefing, 3rd Annual EXTRA CEO Forum, February 16, 2009. 3. You Get What You Pay For* A Global Look at Balancing Demand,Quality,and Efficiency in Healthcare Payment Reform, Pricewaterhouse Coopers’ Health Research Institute, 2008. 4. Patient-Focused Funding and Pay-for-Performance: A Discussion of the Concepts and Experience, CMA Ad Hoc Working Group on Patient-Focused Funding, July 3, 2007. Presentations from the day: 1. NYGH & CCAC Partners Across the Continuum (ED/ALC), Bonnie Adamson, President and CEO, North York Hospital, 2010. 2. Examining Future Funding Directions for Ontario, Adalsteinn Brown, ADM, Health System Strategy Division, MOHLTC, 2010. 3. Funding Levers and Incentives Integrating Patient Care in Ontario, Bill Casey, Executive Director, Primary Health care Services of Peterborough, 2010. 4. Alberta Update and Activity Based Funding Approach, Mike Conroy, VP Corporate Services, Alberta Health Services, 2010. 5. IT Disaster & Road to Recovery, Joy Galloway, Executive Director, Timmins Family Health Team, 2010. 6. Realigning Care and Incentives, Brian Golden, Chair in Health Sector Strategy, Rotman School of Management, U of T, 2010. 7. Showcasing the innovations: Guelph Family Health Team INR Clinic, Ross KirkConnell, Executive Director, Guelph Family Health Team, 2010. 8. Levers and Incentives for Integrating Patient Care in Ontario, Kevin Smith, CEO, St. Joseph's Health System, 2010. 9. Home First, Cathy Szabo, CEO Central CCAC, 2010. June 21st 2011 IHI's Barbara Balik, delivered another substantive keynote, Getting in Gear: What Drives an Exceptional patient and family experience, this time focused on key drivers of change. See event agenda. Hear audio of Balik's June 21st talk: Part 1 & Part 2. Finally, hear a lively Q & A including Toronto CCAC CEO Stacey Daub's inquiry on what patient-centred care means in a community vs. hospital setting. The assembly gathered more than fifty keen minds including patients, providers, healthcare leaders and change-makers of all kinds from across Canada, the US, and the UK. To lead and ground the discussion, Foundation CEO Cathy Fooks framed the day's discussion by differentiating patient-centred care, patient engagement and patient experience, underscored by a new video, What's your patient experience story and how do we change it? For other videos and presentations from Meeting of the Minds 2011, see below: Patients
Healthcare Leaders UK
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An eclectic line-up of compelling and substantive speakers from across Canada , the UK and the US challenged -- and were challenged by -- a group of national and provincial health-care and association leaders, patient and caregiver advocates, community leaders, health-care practitioners, LHIN CEOs, and representatives from the education and retail sectors. As part of the program, they were asked to clarify what a patient-centred health-care system means, and to identify the first thing we need to do to improve the patient experience in Ontario. See key video interviews from the day: Susan Frampton, President, Planetree USA Kariym Joachim Playback Video Clips - Participant Views & Voices from the Day Presentations/Remarks Background reading materials Other exchanges include panel discussions to workshops to town hall forums and lunch-time sessions, tapping top research and policy minds provincially, nationally and internationally, drawing on lessons learned from experiences in the field, and weaving in the perspectives and lived realities of patients and their caregivers. The insights and information gleaned from these events will be embedded in the Foundation's work, and shared widely with government, the health-care community, and beyond. In addition to these sessions, The Change Foundation will reach out to stakeholders across the health-care spectrum and beyond in a variety of ways to give and receive information and analysis and to open doors to possible partnerships and collaborations on issues of common cause.
As readers might recall, last year the Foundation and The Commonwealth Fund (CWF) decided to put their minds and money together to co-sponsor a US-Canada health policy exchange, focusing first on primary care reform. The inaugural international meeting on health-care quality, "Innovations in Primary Care" took place in New York and convened about 20 American and Canadian policy leaders. They dove deep into what makes or breaks good primary care on both sides of the border and surfaced with common and discrete solutions to improve primary care - and the performance of our respective health systems. "The picture is clear and it isn’t pretty: the U.S. and Canada remain far behind other countries in providing quality primary care on many counts," says Change Foundation CEO Cathy Fooks. "That’s why we need exchanges like this - to identify what changes are possible and preferable, and where improvements could become permanent." The forum focused on goals, best practices, quality measurement, culture change, and workforce and aging population issues. The group also probed the CWF’s rich and respected cross-national comparisons on primary care and results from international surveys of chronically ill patients and primary care doctors. In addition to an impressive lineup of American speakers, including CWF president Karen Davis, US Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Sherry Glied, and leaders in the field, there was a strong contingent of Canadian primary care experts, including Brian Hutchinson, William Hogg, Heather Manson, Bonnie Brossart, and Ruth Wilson. Read the agenda and check our website soon for case studies on exemplary health systems and other papers commissioned for the exchange.
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