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At last, Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins seems to get it. After nearly a year of insisting Ontario’s much criticized home-care system is performing just fine, he is now admitting the system is an utter mess and in desperate need of fixing.
Indeed home care is in desperate need of being fixed...more running shoes and less high heels as the saying goes....but like Old Mother Hubbard the cupboard is bare and the Ontario Liberals have no money to fix what is broken. Don't get sick in this province.
If it's a funding issue, I'm sure it's noting that a few thousand more acres of solar panels won't fix! Lord knows that our fields of mirrors have already "fixed" enough stuff in this province!
The comment I have to make about home care is a broad-brush comment that can be painted on our entire health system: an unbelievable breakdown of co-ordination and communication between the different sections of our entire health system.
Out patients arrive at their first physio-therapy session weeks after discharge and find that the physio-therapists have received no X-Rays or injury summaries, so therapists commence treatments based only on the patient's knowledge, which often results in setbacks; Ditto for home-care - the entire home care application process has to be initiated by the patient (or family member) and home-care is not provided with X-rays or relevant information. The breakdowns occur within the hospital as well. Responsibilities for post-op wound/incision supervision and treatment are not clearly defined, with the predictable result that A thinks B is taking care of it, and vice versa...so you know how that ends up. And hospital administration which you might think would be somehow involved in the co-ordination of after care) appears to concentrate all its efforts to the mailing of bills and patient satisfaction surveys.
The status quo is just inexcusable in this day and age of software with multi-task capabilities and instant wireless communications. The garage where I take my car for service does a far, far better job of co-ordinating in-house treatment and follow-ups than Ontario's Health System.
Indeed home care is in desperate need of being fixed...more running shoes and less high heels as the saying goes....but like Old Mother Hubbard the cupboard is bare and the Ontario Liberals have no money to fix what is broken.
ReplyDeleteDon't get sick in this province.
If it's a funding issue, I'm sure it's noting that a few thousand more acres of solar panels won't fix! Lord knows that our fields of mirrors have already "fixed" enough stuff in this province!
ReplyDeleteThe comment I have to make about home care is a broad-brush comment that can be painted on our entire health system: an unbelievable breakdown of co-ordination and communication between the different sections of our entire health system.
Out patients arrive at their first physio-therapy session weeks after discharge and find that the physio-therapists have received no X-Rays or injury summaries, so therapists commence treatments based only on the patient's knowledge, which often results in setbacks; Ditto for home-care - the entire home care application process has to be initiated by the patient (or family member) and home-care is not provided with X-rays or relevant information. The breakdowns occur within the hospital as well. Responsibilities for post-op wound/incision supervision and treatment are not clearly defined, with the predictable result that A thinks B is taking care of it, and vice versa...so you know how that ends up. And hospital administration which you might think would be somehow involved in the co-ordination of after care) appears to concentrate all its efforts to the mailing of bills and patient satisfaction surveys.
The status quo is just inexcusable in this day and age of software with multi-task capabilities and instant wireless communications. The garage where I take my car for service does a far, far better job of co-ordinating in-house treatment and follow-ups than Ontario's Health System.