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Ontario spending more on Aging at Home
As part of Ontario’s Emergency Room (ER) strategy Ontario is budgeting 2 million aimed at helping seniors receive needed health services in their own homes and communities.
The funding also may decrease the number of alternate level of care (ALC) patients in hospitals and support faster discharge of patients waiting to move out of the hospital to more appropriate services.
In total, Ontario will spend:
7.2 million for the Aging at Home program
million for increased home care, personal support and homemaking services provided by Community Care Access Centres
million for Ontario’s 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) in local solutions to address ALC pressures
.5 million for nurse-led outreach teams to provide more care to patients in long-term care homes and help them avoid transfers to the hospital emergency room (ER).
ALC patients are individuals in hospital beds who may be better cared for in an alternate setting, such as long-term care, rehab, or home. Having more home care and community services enables ALC patients to leave hospital sooner, making more beds available to ER patients who are waiting to be admitted to hospital.
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