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The Act focused on Ontario patients and the importance of high-quality patient health care. [1] The act stipulates a number of requirements that all healthcare organizations must follow. This includes the maintenance of an active quality committee, performing an annual survey of staff and patients, and linking executive salary to the attainment ...
Ontario Health (OH; French: Santé Ontario) is a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario. Described as a " super agency ", [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ontario Health oversees much of the administration of the Ontario healthcare system , with the stated goal of integrating services split between organizations.
The Ministry of Health is the Government of Ontario ministry responsible for administering the health care system in the Canadian province of Ontario. [ 1 ] The ministry is responsible to the Ontario Legislature through the minister of health, presently Sylvia Jones since June 24, 2022.
The Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion was established in 2008 by the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion Act, 2007. [2] The OAHPP is an agent of the Crown (i.e. a Crown agency) and is considered an arm's-length government agency.
The Patient Ombudsman (French: Ombudsman des patients) is an ombudsman office which acts as a neutral body of last resort for complaints about the healthcare system in Ontario, Canada. The Patient Ombudsman has jurisdiction over public hospitals and long-term care homes, as well as home and community care coordinated by the Local Health ...
The International Society for the Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) is the umbrella organization responsible for accrediting the Joint Commission accreditation scheme in the US and Accreditation Canada International, as well as accreditation organizations in the United Kingdom and Australia. [1]
Although the Ontario Case Costing Initiative (OCCI) is a Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) database, it depends on "methodology... based on the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) MIS Guidelines". [12] CIHI also manages the Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), an Ontario exclusive database.
Health care quality is the degree to which health care services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes. [2] Quality of care plays an important role in describing the iron triangle of health care relationships between quality, cost, and accessibility of health care within a community. [3]