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Health Charities Coalition of Canada Position Statement on Access to Home Care in Canada - July 2007
Endorsed by the Canadian Home Care Association
Child and Youth Homecare Network (CYHN) Symposium - February 2007
Presentations available here.
Public Policy Forum on Home Care - February 2007
Presentations here.
Final report here - The Future of Homecare in Canada.
Choosing Quality, Rewarding Excellence - May 1, 2006
Ontario's Response to the Caplan Report on Home Care Click to view
Addressing Health System Navigation Challenges in Ontario: A Position Paper - July 2005
Prepared by the OACCAC, the paper discusses system navigation and makes six recommendations for the role of CCACs within the LHINs. [pdf]
Realizing the Potential of HOME CARE - Competing for Excellence by Rewarding Results - May 2005
A Review of the competitive bidding process used by Ontario's Community Care Access Centres (CCACs) to select providers of goods and services. Honourable Elinor Caplan, PC Click to view
Our health-care system is more private than we think
(taken with permission from the Kingston Whig-Standard - May 22, 2004)
Home care is an example of a health service that used to be delivered publicly through government-funded health units but is now delivered entirely by the private sector through for-profit companies like Para-med and Comcare and not-for-profit organizations such as the Red Cross and Saint Elizabeth Health Care. The local VON also provided home nursing services until recently. Read the article here (32kb)
Why Canada should focus on home care -  Jan 23, 2004

Click here to read editorial in Toronto Star

A Public Preference for Home Care by D. Guy, May 2003

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POLLARA Research confirms public preference for home care for reasons of comfort, frugality, quality and fairness.

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Canadian Institute for Health Information, Development of National Indicators for Home Care Final Report
http://www.cihi.ca/Roadmap/Home_Care/Documents.shtml

Report to the Annual Premiers' Conference 2002

Strengthening home and community care across Canada:
A collaborative strategy (pdf - 123 kb)
Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
Discussion Paper No. 17: Delivering health care services: Public, Not-for-Profit, or Private? Raisa Deber
Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council, Adjusting the Balance: A Review of the Regulated Helath Professions Act

Report to the Minister of Health and Long Term Care, 2001, available at www.hprac.org

 
 
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