OHCA 2010 Symposium

'Showcasing Our Best!'

Home care is integral to the functioning of the broader health care system. Home care services are not delivered in the same way, or in the same environment, as institutional care. Home care clients are seen in their own homes and to a much greater degree than the institutional patient, on their own terms.

Service providers must be aware of the changing needs of the health system and be able to demonstrate their ability to offer effective strategies that support the delivery of home care. The expectation of today's home care providers is to demonstrate both excellence and innovation in their service offering, thus providing best value to Ontarians. The OHCA Symposium provides an opportunity for home care providers to share their approaches.

The goal of the Symposium is to share excellence in home care practices and to show how those services integrate with, and support best care practices within the broader health care system.

Preliminary Agenda

• Morning Speakers: Minister Deb Matthews and John Hirdes
• Concurrent Sessions
• Lunch
• Concurrent Sessions
• Afternoon Speakers: Peggy White and Mary Kardos Burton

Guest Speakers

• Deb Matthews, Minister of Health
• Peggy White, Project Manager, Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care (HOBIC)
• Mary Kardos Burton, Project Manager, Integrated Client Care Project
• John Hirdes, Professor and Ontario Home Care Research and Knowledge Exchange Chair

Workshop Sessions

• Home Health Care Competencies: Prerequisites to Excellence and Best Care
• Medication Reconciliation: Lessons Learned from the Field
• Utilizing 'Enhanced' RPNs Working in Home Care
• The Right to Choose: Developing a Policy to Support Clients' Choices and Home Care Staff
• Cross-sectional and individual differences in goals of care expressed by older adults residing in long-term care homes, supportive housing, and community mental health settings
• Introducing nursing students into homecare

  Register now for this informative day