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The
Erie St. Clair End-of-Life Care Network enables the
shared expertise, experience and resources of formal
health care provicers across the region, working towards
a high quality, collaborative and consistent continuum
of care
What is Hospice Palliative
Care?
HPC provides physical,
psychological, social, spiritual and practical support to
people living with progressive, life-threatening illnesses
and their loved ones. Q & A
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About
Us
Integrated System of Hospice Palliative Care
General Goals
System Integration:
- Planned, integrated system,
- Equity across counties, service sectors and within sectors,
- Transparent accountability structure.
Service integration:
- Services offered throughout the entire health continuum – The
patient is supported wherever “home” is,
- Coordinated access and care,
- Timely access to specialized, interdisciplinary consultation
and care,
- Family practitioners integrated with other primary
and community care providers,
- Consistent care according to quality standards,
- Regional consistency with local sensitivity.
Palliative Client and Caregiver Experience:
- The ‘right mix’ of workers,
- The right balance of formal and informal care,
- Appropriate support for informal caregivers,
- Options available, for setting for care provision, with
death occurring in the most appropriate setting
in terms of patient choice and need,
- Good bereavement and psychosocial support, pain
and symptom management,
- Focus on the provision of culturally
sensitive services.
Other
- "Protected designated” funding, with cross
sector accountability.
- Clear expectations and timeframes relating to system-wide
outcome reporting.
- Efficiency of service delivery – patient is being
cared for in the right place at the right time
in the right
way.
(Adapted from Cancer Care Ontario depiction of Ontario’s Palliative Care System
– Today and Tomorrow)
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