Reports & Resources

Integration Incubator

Spotlight on St. Joseph's Health System
Interview with Kevin Smith, President & CEO, St. Joseph's Health System
(Tools for Change: Funding Levers & Incentives for Integrating Patient Care in Ontario, hosted April 26 by The Change Foundation & MOHLTC)

View the video clips:
St. Joseph's Health System: new parts & players join to offer a continuum of care across two LHINs (1:43 min)

Easing patient transitions by linking institutional & community care back to primary care (1:42 min)

Future funding experiments planned: follow the patient, bundle services, & tie funding to results (3:03 min)

Incenting providers to reduce costs & add "highest value" to improve care (3:42 min)

Empowering CCACs to drive innovation - experimentation is a good thing (2:07 min)

Integration successes to date @ St. Joseph's Health System: a focus on moving patients back to home or to the right level of care (4:58 min)

Key role of IT in driving integration, self-management & quality improvement (3:09 min)

Success stories to date: a focus on patient dignity & respect (4:48 min)

The importance of sharing success to drive a culture of excellence (1:53 min)

Integration Incubator: Ottawa’s Village Saint-Louis to be vibrant model of healthy aging and community partnership

We start this new series with Bruyère Continuing Care and the Perley and Rideau Veteran’s Health Centre proposed Village Saint-Louis Supportive Housing Project. It offers a fresh vision on integrating care for seniors - a topic explored in an earlier symposium co-sponsored by The Change Foundation and CPRN. The 'outside the box' Village is a mix of supportive housing, strong informal social networks and formal services across the health-care continuum, ensuring patients receive the right level of care at the right time. Bruyère took the lead because of its deep expertise in seniors' health care, and to help tackle systemic issues which will help such symptoms as too many alternate-level-of-care patients. If funding comes through, the welcome Village will be ready to house about 200 elderly by spring 2011. Read the feature with accompanying Q and A with Bruyère CFO, Daniel Levac.