Alliance for Healthier Communities

For this lunch 'n' learn webinar, held on June 22, 2023, we convened a panel of experts in primary health care quality and virtual care delivery from the Alliance for Healthier Communities, Healthcare Excellence Canada, Canada Health Infoway, and Ontario Health. They presented an overview of their organizations' virtual care resources and helped us understand how these resources can be used together when planning and delivering care.

The 2022-23 Annual Report of the Alliance for Healthier Communities. 

Voir-le en français ici.

#Introduction

During the fall of 2022, the Alliance for Healthier Communities (Alliance) launched a research project to pilot the implementation and use of the EQ-5D patient reported outcomes measures (PROMs) tool within 6 Community Health Centres (CHCs).

Optimal and thorough utilization of one-time funding helps build a case for renewed and ongoing Mental Health and Addictions funding for primary care teams across Ontario.

In 2020, the Alliance for Healthier Communities and its member centres embarked on a research study to explore the challenges and opportunities inherent in a shift towards virtual care. The study involved extracting EMR data from 36 CHCs, an organizational survey, as well as conducting phone interviews with 36 providers and 31 clients. This 2-page handout summarizes the main findings.

La version française de ce document est disponible ici.

This lunch & learn on December 13, 2022 provided an overview of the new OHRS Benchmarking Report and addressed members' questions about the functionality and data included in the report. 

Watch the recorded webinar below, or review the slides here.

On October 3, 2022, the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table (OST) released its final brief, a 3-part exploration of how primary care responded to and was affected by the pandemic, and implications for ongoing health system planning and policy.