Value Stream Mapping
All four early implementation sites completed their Value Stream Mapping sessions in April and May. During this intensive three-day exercise, the Improvement Teams examined their current care and business practices, identified processes that do not add value for their clients, and developed local quality improvement plans that will guide their tests of change over the next 18 months.
These presentations summarize each group’s work:
- Erie St Clair CCAC and Saint Elizabeth Health Care/Windsor branch
Value Stream Mapping: April 21 – 23, 2010 (PDF)
- Champlain CCAC and Carefor Health & Community Services/Ottawa branch
Value Stream Mapping: May 5 – 7, 2010 (PDF)
- Central West CCAC and Saint Elizabeth Health Care/Brampton branch
Value Stream Mapping: May 11 – 13, 2010 (PDF)
- North East CCAC and Bayshore Home Health/Sudbury branch
Value Stream Mapping: May 18 – 20, 2010 (PDF)
Integrated Client Care in the news
Ideas and Opportunities for Bending the Health Care Cost Curve: Advice for the Government of Ontario highlights Integrated Client Care’s wound care initiative as “an excellent example of the possibilities that can be achieved through the coordinated application of leading practices.” The report was released in April, 2010, by the Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres, the Ontario Hospital Association, and the Ontario Federation of Mental Health and Addiction Programs.
TVO’s current affairs program “The Agenda with Steve Paikin” devoted a full-hour debate to ways to achieve better value for money in healthcare, the issue at the heart of the Integrated Client Care Project. Four expert panelists weighed in — Brian Golden, Steven Lewis, Dr. Danielle Martin, and Michael Decter. Watch a podcast of the April 23, 2010, program: Bending the Healthcare Cost Curve, Part Two.
Project Lead: Susan Taylor