Reports & Resources
Speeches, Presentations & Summaries
Speeches
October 28, 2009
Why Hell Should Freeze Over: Interprofessional collaboration & integrated care
Read the speech by Change Foundation Chair Scott Dudgeon at the 2nd annual Triprofessional Conference: Ontario Pharmacists, Physicians and Nurse Practitioners: A Call for Collaboration.
Presentations
April 26, 2010
Tools for Change: Levers and Incentives for Integrating Patient Care in Ontario Symposium
(The Change Foundation & Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care)
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.
See more information and resources from this symposium.
Read the symposium agenda.
October 28, 2009
Engaging on engagement; a call for support for “mission critical” work to guide health-care change
Read presentations from the spring symposium and workshop, Community Engagement & the LHINs: Truth & Consequences.
September 30, 2009
How can research be used to influence health-care decision making and improve practice? Knowledge Translation symposium offers sage advice
When decision makers gather to tackle a difficult health-care issue - whether around the Cabinet table, in a health-care board room, or at a legislative committee -- how does the latest policy research shine amid a crowd of competing influences? And how do you ensure that the latest evidence will be shared and embedded into practice at the point of care?
Read the sage advice from Dr. John Lavis, Canada’s Research Chair in Knowledge Translation and Uptake, and Dr. Paula Goering, Director of Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit, CAMH. Lavis and Goering presented at a symposium, Bridging the “Know-Do” gap hosted by The Change Foundation Sept. 23.
Over fifty nursing leaders, Ministry of Health policy experts, and health-care KT practitioners attended the symposium, which was moderated by Change Foundation Chair Scott Dudgeon, with welcoming remarks by Vanessa Burkoski, Ontario's Provincial Chief Nursing Officer.
Change Foundation CEO Cathy Fooks offered closing personal reflections, reinforcing an organizational commitment to bridge the KT gap through ongoing collaborative research with reports and forums targeting Ontario decision-makers to raise the level of political and public discourse on health-care policy.
July 16, 2009
Listening and learning from patients key to creating better transitions to palliative care: CEO Cathy Fooks at Ontario College of Family Physicians' (OCFP) workshop
Understanding, measuring and responding to the patient perspective on what "doesn't make sense" is key to improving care across providers spanning primary care hospital, home and finally to hospice. This was a key message delivered by Change Foundation CEO Cathy Fooks at a June 23rd OCFP strategy development workshop on improving hospice palliative care across Ontario. Fooks discussed and distilled key findings from the Foundation's Who is the Puzzlemaker? report and Having Their Say, Choosing Their Way project exploring patient navigation in health-care and transitions from hospital to "home." Fook's power point Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Navigating Health Services in Ontario outlined ways to improve the future of palliative care in Ontario by 2015.
May 28, 2009
Why we care about Home Care: Change Foundation CEO Cathy Fooks tells OHCA symposium
The Change Foundation CEO Cathy Fooks delivered the keynote address at the Ontario Home Care Association's (OHCA) May 28 Symposium and AGM - Home Care - a solution to today's health system challenges. The event was attended by over 100 Ontario health-care leaders, including Health and Long-Term Care Minister David Caplan. Read the powerpoint presentation Why we care about Home Care and the related Hospital-to-Home project or our Who is the Puzzle maker? report. Learn more about OHCA's symposium here.
April 20, 2009
CEO Cathy Fooks presents to the 2009 Annual Hospice Palliative Care Conference
Read the powerpoint An Integration Journey: What Does Research Say? What Do Patients and Their Caregivers Say? based on our Who is The Puzzle maker? report
February 17, 2008
Foundation-funded Hirdes' project illuminates home and community care challenges - adds evidence to ALC strategy & boosts understanding of chronic disease management in frail elderly.
The Change Foundation has recently funded a two-year study — led by Dr. John Hirdes of the University of Waterloo and the Homewood Research Institute — to examine the care needs of ALC patients waiting in acute hospitals for long-term care (LTC). Using provincial RAI-HC data, Dr. Hirdes and colleagues compared demographic and clinical characteristics of ALC patients waiting for long-term care to long-stay home care clients in Ontario. The results provide insight into the social and clinical needs of Ontario's ALC patients. Overall, the clinical characteristics of ALC patients waiting for LTC indicate that some of these patients might be successfully managed in home care, while a substantial number would be suited for supportive housing. Analysis of ALC discharge to LTC indicates that the classification 'ALC patient waiting for LTC' is not always driven by clinical need.
Read Dr. Hirdes' research summary of the project.
November 12, 2008
Change Foundation CEO Cathy Fooks presents at Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant (HNHB) Palliative Care Network conference.
Change Foundation CEO Cathy Fooks talks to the HNHB Palliative Care Network's 6th Annual Innovations in Palliative Care Fostering Uninterrupted Care...Sharing Vital Information conference about the Foundation's Who is the Puzzle maker? report. One
of the key objectives of the conference was to develop a broader understanding of
systems and how the components fit together to impact the hospice palliative care
that people receive.
Read her powerpoint presentation and powerpoint presentation with video clips.
September 29, 2008
CEO Cathy Fooks talks Puzzle maker Report at the Waterloo-Wellington LHIN Event
Read the powerpoint and the report. See the video.
June 5, 2008
Foundation to Study Fast Growing Area of Informal Care
The Change Foundation has partnered with Laurentian University researcher Raymond Pong to study how to better support the growing and essential role of informal care for the elderly within Canadian health care. The research will help identify links between support for informal caregivers and better quality of life for both recipients and caregivers. Dr. Pong will complete his report this fall. Learn more about informal caregiving from this presentation by Dr. Pong
May 20 and 21, 2008
Regionalized Health-Care: A Good Idea Done Badly
Kenneth Fyke's presentation at The Change Foundation's 1st Meeting of Minds exchange. What are some of the best lessons for Ontario as it heads down the road towards greater health-care integration? Read the presentation here and The Change Foundation's research advisor Steven Lewis's rebuttal to Kenneth Fyke.
April 2-4, 2008
An Integration Journey: Road Trips from Afar
Cathy Fooks
Cathy Fooks presented at the OHA Conference "Advancing Safety and Quality of Care in Sudbury" in Region 1 NE/NC. Read the updated powerpoint presentation here.
Related and cited resource:
Health Systems Integration - Definitions, Processes and Impact, October 2007, Suter, Oelke, et al., Calgary Health Region
January 25, 2008
Cathy Fooks Talks Health-care Integration
OHA and Courtyard group conference, The LHIN agenda and the New Government.
Read the powerpoint presentation.
November 15, 2007
Research Agenda on Issues of Integration
Cathy Fooks and Gail Donner
Change Foundation President Cathy Fooks and Chair Gail Donner met with LHIN CEOs in Toronto to discuss ways of working together to help accelerate the integration of health-care services in Ontario. LHIN leaders learned more about the Foundation's research agenda (recently finalized by the board) and potential areas for future collaboration. Read what The Change Foundation presented to the LHIN CEOs to get the discussion going.
November 1, 2007
Providing Interprofessional/Collaborative Care
Cathy Fooks
Presentation at the National Continuing Competence Conference For Regulated Professions in Toronto. Read the Powerpoint presentation here.
September, 2007
Service Integration The Canadian Way
Cathy Fooks
In September, 2007, Change Foundation CEO Cathy Fooks made a presentation – Service Integration The Canadian Way -- to a visiting delegation of health-care executives from the United Kingdom participating in a King's Fund study tour. Read/download slides here.
May, 2007
LHINtegration: Can Ontario Leapfrog the Regionalized Provinces?
Steven Lewis
In May, 2007, research advisor Steven Lewis delivered a keynote address – LHINtegration: Can Ontario Leapfrog the Regionalized Provinces? -- at a Change Foundation symposium.
Read/download presentation slides.
Watch excerpts from his speech.
Listen to his entire speech.
Presentation Summaries
June 2, 3, 2008
Canadian College of Health Service Executive conference
Change Foundation CEO Cathy Fooks and Research Advisor Steven Lewis participate in a session on physician integration at the Canadian College of Health Service Executive conference, Regionalization: Lessons Learned or Lessons Lost?, in Saskatoon June 2, 3, 2008. Learn more about the discussion.
