Increasing Access to Integrated Health Care - Pre-Budget Submission

Look to the OMA for leadership on this issue and partner with the OMA to implement the recommendations of the Burnout Task Force. [...] In its 2019 Pre-Budget submission to the provincial government, the Ontario Hospital Association also recognized the need to shift palliative care resources to the community According to the Canadian Society of Palliative-Care Physicians, palliative care can result in an approximately 30 per cent reduction in spending through reduction in emergency room and intensive care unit visits and hospital. [...] Patient navigation To support continuity in primary care and follow-up of patients’ holistic and complex needs, the role of care co-ordinator in primary care within OHTs should be expanded to include patient navigation of the broad range of the services across the health-care continuum. [...] Recommendations To help create the OHTS and enable them in the areas of integrated election information-sharing and patient care and navigation, the OMA recommends the government: 13 1. [...] Look to the OMA for leadership on this issue and partner with the OMA to implement the recommendations of the Burnout Task Force.