Monday, May 16, 2011
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and Community Health Centres Forge Partnership
May 16, 2011 - The Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) recently hosted the signing of a unique agreement between CHEO and the region’s nine community health centres (CHCs) to better prepare our health system meet the challenges of the future.
CHEO is a tertiary academic specialty hospital and the CHCs provide broad-based primary health care to their communities. The agreement will strengthen relationships between CHEO’s pediatric experts and CHC’s community clinicians through regular professional development and consultation, using telemedicine and in-person access.
The project has several aims – to improve access to care for children and youth, to better standardize care for this population, and to ensure pediatric expertise at community health centres for years to come.
This partnership adds a critical element to strengthening an integrated system of care for the region's children and youth, and to contributing to their healthy development.
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“The new partnership shows how the Champlain LHIN is working with health providers to better connect their services and improve patient care,” said Alex Munter, Champlain LHIN CEO. “The LHIN brings communities and providers together to put in place innovative health-care strategies, and this is an excellent example of that.”
“CHEO is committed to taking our expertise in the care of children and youth and extending it beyond the bricks and mortar of our buildings - to keep giving back to communities in the same, dedicated way that they continue to give to us,” said Michel Bilodeau, President and Chief Executive Officer at CHEO. “This will help kids in our community to get CHEO-care closer to home.”
"The CHCs’ knowledge of their communities' strengths and resources adds an important element in the treatment of children and youth, and in the provision of support needed by parents and caregivers,” said Simone Thibault, Chair of the CHC Network in the Champlain region. “With our shared goals of standardized quality care and care closer to home, this partnership will build on past initiatives and formalize an important relationship."
Participating community health centres are:
Carlington Community Health Centre (Ottawa)
Centre de santé communautaire de l’Estrie (Alexandria, Bourget, Cornwall, Crysler, Embrun)
Centretown Community Health Centre (Ottawa)
North Lanark Community Health Centre (Lanark, Beachburg, Cobden, Killaloe)
Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre (Ottawa)
Sandy Hill Community Health Centre (Ottawa)
Seaway Valley Community Health Centre (Cornwall)
Somerset West Community Health Centre (Ottawa)
South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre (Ottawa)
Source: Champlain Local Health Integration Network
Email: champlain@lhins.on.ca
Website: www.champlainlhin.on.ca
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