All hospitals in the province now have individual Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs) that set out indicators for quality improvement. Each hospital ranks the indicator by priority ('1' for most important for that hospital, '2' for medium, and '3' for least important). The government has recommended a core set indicators that fall into five categories: safety, effectiveness, access, 'patient centred', and 'integrated' (a word they use for some reason to cover the 30 day readmission rate and percentage of ALC days). The first year for the hospital QIPs was 2011-12. Annual QIP’s must be available to the public via the hospital's web site by April 1. For one example, click this link for the Lakeridge Health "Short Form" QIP . Health Quality Ontario (a government body) is supposed to to analyze the plans and identify gaps, opportunities, and "learnings" (by which I think they mean " lessons "). In a numbers in
Notes from Leftwords -- Doug Allan