In July 2004, the Ontario Ministry
of Health and Long-Term Care provided funding to
support planning for a comprehensive provincial
end-of-life care strategy, which includes the establishment
of regional networks and local interdisciplinary
and integrated end-of-life care service delivery.
Over the next 4 years, the Ministry of Health and
Long-Term Care will coordinate the development
of a strategy that will span the care continuum-beginning
with planning in 2004/05 and implementation over
3 years ending in 2007/08.
The objectives of the
End-of-Life Care Strategy are to:
- Shift care of the dying from
acute setting to appropriate alternate
settings of individual choice (e.g., home, residential hospice, Long
Term Care homes).
- Enhance client-centred and
interdisciplinary end-of-life care service
delivery capacity in the community.
- Improve access, coordination
and consistency of services and supports.
Achieving these objectives
will require a broad system redesign for palliative
care services as well as a coordinated and integrated
way of improving the current system. The Champlain
District, which includes the Eastern Counties,
Renfrew County and Ottawa, has chosen to adopt
models of service delivery based on the Canadian
Hospice and Palliative Care Association's Guide
as endorsed by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term
Care. As well, we have established a Champlain Hospice
Palliative and End-of-Life
Care Network and three supporting local networks
in the Eastern Counties, Renfrew County and Ottawa.
The Vision of the local
Eastern Counties Hospice Palliative and End-of-Life
Care Network:
Our Eastern Counties Hospice
Palliative and End-of-Life Care Network will
establish a high quality, accessible, and coordinated
continuum of hospice palliative and end-of-life
care for every person of every age. |
