Quality Improvement

Quality Improvement: Community and Home-care Services

The quality improvement research agenda includes initiatives to improve the continuity of care among health-care sectors and to contribute to evidence-based decision-making home/community care.

Key current projects focus on:

A Hospital to Home project in partnership with the Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres (OACCAC) launched January 2008 to map out and improve the interactions and decisions patients/caregivers must make when leaving hospital.

• Understanding home-care utilization
• Reporting on adverse events in home care
• Identifying research questions on informal caregivers to inform the health system integration system in Ontario.

Read more about our research agenda on Quality Improvement in Home and Community Care.
See more on our reports, fact sheets and other resources related to quality improvement here.

The Centre for Healthcare Quality Improvement at The Change Foundation

As of July 1st, 2008, CHQI has joined forces with The Change Foundation. Formely known as the Ontario Health Performance Initiative (OHPI) of the Ministry of Health and Long-term Care, CHQI is now part of The Change Foundation and will operate at arms-length from the provincial government. The initiative was established in 2006 to accelerate quality improvement in Ontario to improve system-level outcomes in areas of provincial strategic priority. Learn more here or view a Q&A video with CHQI Executive Director Paula Blackstien-Hirsch.
Visit their website at www.chqi.ca.