ALC 'Best Practices' / Models / Strategies

Recent papers / Related Research

Latest additions:

• Appropriate level of care: a patient flow, system integration and capacity solution (Report by the expert panel on alternate level of care - December 2006) 

• A Profile of Ontario’s Home Care Clients with Alzheimer’s Disease or Other Dementias 

[ 1 ] ALC STRATEGY RECOMMENDATIONS

Sources for Strategies include:

• Champlain LHIN – Short Term Strategies to Improve Access
• Ottawa ALC Committee – From Alternative to Appropriate Levels of Care
• OHA/OMA/MOHLTC Report – Improving Access to Emergency Care: Addressing System Issues 
• Alternate Level of Care – Challenges & Opportunities 
• Waterloo Hospital ER Report 
• Nova Scotia- Continuing Care Service Models
  

[ 2 ] ALC 'BEST PRACTICE' MODELS

Management/Prevention Models

• St. Mary’s - COPD Management  [summary] 
• Lakeridge – COPD [summary] 
• Falls Prevention [summary] 

Collaborative Models

• Advanced Care Directives 
• Hospital/CCAC/LTC Placement Process 
• Grey-Bruce Placement Policy
• S/W Palliative Care Integration Waterloo – Collaborative Discharge Planning 
• Waterloo Collaborative DIscharge Planning 
• Halton ALC Flow Processes 

Avoidance Models

• BOC - Balance of Care Model [summary]
• Home At Last  [summary] 
• RPG Report - GEM Model [summary] 
• Advanced Home Care [summary] 
• Toronto Region – ER Notification [summary] 
• North York – MH Support Strategy[summary]
• Report on Seniors' falls in Canada

Admission/Discharge Models

• NHS – Timely Simple Discharge
• Bridgeport Assessment Team 
• Queensway-Carleton Discharge 
• Central S/W Hospital Flow Charts 
• Literature Review – Hospital Discharge Policies 

Redesign Process Models

• Cambridge Hospital Process Redesign 
• Niagara – ALC Designation
• Timmins – Capturing ALC Data 
• Improving Access to ER

North East Focus

• Long Term Care Homes Submission to the NE LHIN Integrated Health Services Plan  [summary]  

North Bay (Nipissing)

• Building a Spectrum of Health Care Options in Nipissing and North Bay 
• Older Adults with Mental Health Ilness

Manitoulin-Sudbury

• Manitoulin-Sudbury Long-Term Care Supportive Housing Report 

Sault Ste. Marie (Algoma)

• Health Care Needs and the Continuum of Care in SSM (May 2005) 

• REVISITING LONG-TERM CARE SUPPORTIVE HOUSING NEEDS IN THE ALGOMA DISTRICT (April 2004)  [summary]

• Algoma Health Care Planning (Phase 1 - May 2006)

• Algoma Health Care Planning (Phase 2 - November 2006
  

Timmins (Cochrane District)

• Long-Term Care Community Support Services Needs Assessment – Preliminary Findings (March 2005)
  
• Review of the Increasing Pressures of an Aging Population on the Health Care System in the City of Timmins and the Cochrane District
  
  UPDATE (Jan 2006) 
• Examinig the Need for Supportive Housing Services in the Cochrane Distric (November 2004)