..Ontarios Critical Care Strategy Delivering Critical Care When and Where its Needed Prepared by the Critical Care Secretariat, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care January 2007 Implementation of Critical Care Response Teams (CCRTs) in Ontario Hospitals Year One In This Report: What...

..Q Ontarios Critical Care Strategy Prepared by the Critical Care Secretariat This issue: . March 2007 Improving Access, Quality and System Integration Introduction...

..Q Ontarios Critical Care Strategy Prepared by the Critical Care Secretariat . June 2007 Improving Access, Quality and System Integration Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2...

..Strategy Highlights: Ontarios Critical Care Strategy Monthly Report Improving Access, Quality and System Integration January 2007 Critical Care Information System (CCIS) Go Live On February 1, nine hospitals were the first to go live with the provinces and indeed Canadas, first critical care...

.. appropriate strategies to test the usefulness of the proposed guidelines as part of an implementation process. February 2007 Other Progress Critical Care Strategy to include Paediatrics The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has expanded the mandate...

..March 2007 Strategy Highlights: Critical Care Accountabilities for Hospitals On March 29, Hugh MacLeod, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health System Accountability and Performance Division, sent hospital CEOs a letter clarifying system-oriented accountabilities for all Ontario hospitals that provide...

..April 2007 Strategy Highlights: OHA/Critical Care Strategy Conference A Resounding Success On April 25 over 250 frontline critical care providers, planners and administrators gathered in Toronto at the Hotel Intercontinental to attend the joint OHA/Critical Care Strategy conference and hear about...

.. critical care. continued on page 2 May 2007 May 2007 Strategy Makes its Mark at Medical Emergency Teams (MET) International Conference in Pittsburgh On May 7-8, over 45 people involved with Critical Care Response Team (CCRTs) through Ontarios Critical Care Strategy attended the 3rd annual International...

..June 2007 Strategy Highlights: New CritiCall Executive Director Appointed Dr. Bernard Lawless, Provincial Lead, Critical Care and Trauma, Brenda Flaherty, Executive Vice President Clinical Operations, Hamilton Health Sciences and Tony Woolgar, CEO, South West LHIN and Chair, CritiCall Strategic...

..July/August 2007 Surge Capacity Demo Project Launched The Surge Capacity Management demonstration project was officially launched in the Champlain LHIN on July 22nd, 2007.Attendees learned about Surge Capacity Planning and Management from the Provincial Team including Dr. Chris Mazza Physician...

..September 2007 Strategy Highlights: Extramural Paediatric Critical Care Response Team launched on October 1 st Starting October 1, 2007 physicians caring for critically ill children in Ontario will have telephone access to a paediatric intensivist 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. By calling...

..October/November 2007 Strategy Highlights: New critical care nurse training program off to a great start In September 2007, the Critical Care Nursing Graduate Certificate Program was launched with 80 nurses enrolled in the program from across the province. Preliminary demographic information...

..December 2007 Strategy Highlights: CCIS achieves another major milestone With 30 hospitals added to the CCIS go-live in mid- December, the CCIS implementation team has now fully completed Phase II implementation. This means that all Level 3 adult medical/surgical ICUs in Ontario are now...