Thursday, July 29, 2010
Champlain Local Health Integration Network
Hospitals in Champlain Region Receive More Funding to Reduce Emergency Room Wait Times
Ontario is expanding its successful Pay-for-Results program and giving seven hospitals in the Champlain Local Health Integration Network the tools they need to drive down ER wait times and ensure patients can get the emergency care they need, sooner.
Hospitals will receive $5,839,600 in Pay for Results funding to implement initiatives that will help reduce ER wait times. Over the last two years, the participating hospitals in Champlain LHIN were able to reduce ER wait times by 17 per cent thanks to funding from this program.
Pay for Results helps hospitals meet specific emergency room (ER) wait time reduction targets. This year, 71 Ontario hospitals will receive Pay-for-Results funding. All of them have committed to treat more patients within the targets, aiming to improve performance by 15 per cent over the course of the year.
To reach the target, hospitals will use the funds to do things like:
- expand staffing as part of emergency department teams and reorganize how these teams interact to encourage more collaboration,
- create designated areas in the ER for rapid assessments to improve patient flow
Reducing ER wait times builds on the government’s ,a href=http://www.premier.gov.on.ca/openOntario/index.php?Lang=EN>Open Ontario plan to provide more access to health care services while improving accountability for patients.
QUOTES
“Pay for Results is a program that deserves recognition. It fosters innovation, rewards hard work, and reduces the amount of time patients stay in hospital emergency rooms. We are pleased the program is expanding to more hospitals in the Champlain region.”
- Champlain LHIN CEO Robert Cushman
“The Ontario government is committed to reducing emergency room wait times. This program is about enabling hospitals to find the ER solutions that are going to work for their patients.”
- MPP Bob Chiarelli (Ottawa West - Nepean)
QUICK FACTS
- As part of the Pay-for-Results program, the Ontario government is providing up to a total of $100 million to the 14 LHINs.
- There are 163 emergency rooms in the province, with 2.8 million people making 5.25 million visits to these ERs each year.
Source: Champlain Local Health Integration Network
Email: champlain@lhins.on.ca
Website: www.champlainlhin.on.ca
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