Media Room
Welcome to the media room. Here is where you can stay up-to-date on the latest information, analysis and assessments emerging from The Change Foundation's policy and research agendas for Ontario – agendas that focus in particular on fixing health-care fragmentation, improving home care and helping informal caregivers. With the advent of the Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) – which were created to provide a more integrated health-care system -- these issues could not be more timely or relevant.
Want to know?
- what the past decade of regionalized/decentralized health care across Canada has yielded – and what those lessons and challenges mean for Ontario as it sets out down that road?
- what factors and responses will contribute to the success or failure of the LHINs in meeting their stated goals?
- how the LHINs could change health and health care in this province?
- how we can measure or assess whether the LHINs are failing or succeeding?
- what an integrated health-care system is, and why we need it?
- what an integrated health system means to the public and patients?
- how we could improve the way people move from hospital to home to long-term care – and how to make it easier for people to make decisions about those moves?
- what is keeping us from providing the public/patients with health-care services that ensure that patients aren't left wondering where to go next to what to do?
- what informal caregivers -- family and friends who help care for loved ones – need to sustain and support them?
Ask The Change Foundation
Media Contacts
Anila Sunnak, Communications Specialist 416.205.1325 asunnak@changefoundation.com
Sine MacKinnon, Director, Communications 416.205.1334 smackinnon@changefoundation.com
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News Releases
October 28, 2009
Having Their Say & Choosing Their Way - Final reports and Commentary
Read about the challenges facing patients and the health-care system during these key transfers - and the efforts to address them in a commentary released today by The Change Foundation and the Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres. The commentary is a companion to two reports detailing the project, undertaken with the South East CCAC and Quinte Health Care and Toronto Central CCAC and Toronto Western. Report 1 "People’s experience receiving home care after being hospitalized" and Report 2 "People’s experience going to long-term care after being hospitalized" both highlight the need to address poor communication and inadequate information systems, faulty design and processes, and confusion about who is responsible for what. They also outlines progress and changes made to date. Read the news release.
October 14th, 2008
Toronto Central CCAC and Toronto Western Hospital next picks for project to improve hospital to home transitions.
The second and final phase of The Change Foundation's joint quality improvement project with OACCAC – Having Their Say and Choosing Their Way: helping patients & caregivers move from hospital to home - continues this fall in Toronto in partnership with the Toronto Central CCAC and Toronto Western Hospital. The report from phase 1 (South East CCAC and Trenton Memorial Hospital) helped to inform a recent discussion of CCAC senior directors on best practices in the area. Read the report from phase 1, and stay tuned for phase 2 results by the end of the year. Read a Hiroc news article about phase 2.
June 12, 2008
New Change Foundation report puts human face on navigating Ontario health system
Who is the Puzzle maker? Patient/Caregiver Perspectives on Navigating Health Services in Ontario is The Change Foundation's first health integration report.
View the foundation's news release and video news release.
July 7, 2008
South East joint project points to ways of easing patient transitions from hospital to home
Read the news release and summary of findings.
Feb. 12, 2008
Having their Say & Choosing their Way: project to improve patient experiences from hospital to ‘home' launched.
The South East Community Care Access Centre (SECCAC) and Quinte Health Care Trenton Memorial are the first participants in a project to improve patient experiences with the often difficult – and delayed – transition from hospital to ‘home.'
This project is funded by The Change Foundation, in partnership with The Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres (OACCAC). It was officially launched on Feb. 12, 2008 with the first meeting of the local project team in Trenton. To learn more, read the news release, fact sheet, backgrounder, and Elaine's Story.
June 4, 2007
Five years after seminal report, Roy Romanow to assess changes, Medicare's future at The Change Foundation AGM.
Oct. 2/2006
Leading Canadian Health Policy Researcher Named President and CEO of The Change Foundation
Op-eds & Speeches
October 28, 2009
Why Hell Should Freeze Over: Interprofessional collaboration & integrated care
Speech by Change Foundation Chair Scott Dudgeon at the 2nd annual Triprofessional Conference: Ontario Pharmacists, Physicians and Nurse Practitioners: A Call for Collaboration.
Read the speech.
May 25, 2007
Fixing Health-care Fragmentation
Read commentary published in Toronto Star by Change Foundation research advisor Steven Lewis and Change Foundation CEO Cathy Fooks.
Media Coverage
December 16, 2009
Having Their Say and Choosing Their Way launched October 28
Our Having Their Say and Choosing Their Way project explored transitions from hospital to home or long-term care. Findings from the final phase, released on October 28, 2009 garnered thoughtful three-part attention over two weeks from the Toronto Star’s social issues columnist Carol Goar and a flurry of online comment on the Star’s site; as well as other media attention.
Read the project commentary and Report 1 "People's experience receiving home care after being hospitalized" and Report 2 "People's experience going to long-term care after being hospitalized". Read the press release.
The difficult journey to a nursing home (Part 1)
November 4, 2009 -- Carol Goar, Toronto Star.
Smoothing the rough passage to a nursing home (Part 2)
November 6, 2009 -- Carol Goar, Toronto Star.
Putting the elderly, not the system, first (Part 3),
November 18, 2009 -- Carol Goar, Toronto Star.
Related Letters:
Re-The difficult journey to a nursing home.
Time to unsnarl nursing home red tape,
November 6, 2009 -- (Lesley Cameron, Toronto), Toronto Star.
Re-The difficult journey to a nursing home.
Patients unaware of rights.
November 6, 2009 -- (Jane Meadus and Lisa Romano, Advocacy Centre for the Elderly, Toronto), Toronto Star.
Re- Smoothing the rough passage to a nursing home.
We need a national caregiver plan.
November 8, 2009 -- (Susan Eng, VP, Advocacy CARP), Toronto Star.
Re-Smoothing the rough passage to a nursing home.
System failing the chronically ill.
November 9, 2009 -- (R. Rev. Dr. Christopher Eriksson, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Georgetown), Toronto Star.
Other coverage:
Project reveals ways to improve hospital-to-home transition for patients.
November 11, 2009 -- Natalie Hamilton, Axiom News.
October 14, 2008
Toronto Central CCAC and Toronto Western Hospital next picks for project to improve hospital to home transitions
The second and final phase of The Change Foundation's joint quality improvement project with OACCAC, Having Their Say and Choosing Their Way: helping patients & caregivers move from hospital to home, continues this fall in Toronto in partnership with the Toronto Central CCAC and Toronto Western Hospital. The report from phase 1 (South East CCAC and Trenton Memorial Hospital) helped inform a recent discussion of CCAC senior directors on the best practices in the area. Read the report from phase 1, and stayed tuned for phase 2 results by the end of the year. Read a Hiroc news article about phase 2.
July 2008
Having Their Say & Choosing Their Way: helping patients and caregivers move from hospital to home
Patients want timelier, smoother transition from hospital to home: study. Project leaders target reducing unnecessary time spent in hospital
July 23, 2008 -- Natalie Miller, Hiroc News.
Nursing Home Red Tape, July 9, 2008-- Barry Ellesworth, Belleville Intelligencer
June 18, 2008
The Change Foundation's CEO, Cathy Fooks talks to Inside Queen's Park (volume 21, no. 12, GP Murray Research)
Fooks talks about the Foundation's new report and the need for a "smooth journey" for Ontario patients.
Read the June 18th interview.
May 26, 2008
The Toronto Star on The Change Foundation's Meeting of the Minds Exchange.
Toronto Star colunmist Carol Goar weighed in at this event with two thought-provoking articles. Read Unfinished health-care revolution (May 26) and a follow-up Lessons for Ontario (May 28).
May 21, 2008
The Change Foundation's research advisor, Steven Lewis talks health care reform on TVO's Agenda with Steve Paikin.
Hear the TVO podcast.
February 12, 2008
Having their Say & Choosing their Way: project to improve patient experiences from hospital to ‘home' launched.
Project to reduce crowding at Trenton Hospital, February 14, 2008 -- Barry Ellesworth, Belleville Intelligencer
Project to reduce crowding at Trenton Hospital, February 14, 2008 -- Barry Ellesworth, The Trentonian
Project Aims to Smooth Route from Hospital to Home, February 15, 2008 -- Kingston This Week
CCAC partner to improve transition from acute care to home,February 20, 2008 --Natalie Miller, HIROC News, Hospital
February 6, 2008
Regardless of jurisdiction, common elements make healthcare integration work: Fooks, Axiom News
January 30, 2008
Fooks triggers dialogue about ‘integration', Axiom News
December 7, 2007
Read a recent article by Axiom News about The Foundation's new role. "Change Foundation sets new priorities, targets improving health-care integration in Ontario",
Natalie Miller, Axiom News
