Quality Improvement Initiative(s) Across a Health System

2019 Recipient: Breast Cancer Integrated Care Collaborative 

North York General Hospital

Recognizing that the complexity of breast cancer treatment necessitates a more collaborative and integrated approach to care and treatment, a passionate team of inter-professional providers and a patient advisor came together, and through extensive consultation co-designed the NYGH Breast Cancer Integrated Care Collaborative (ICC). Using an innovative approach to link medical and support services together, with evidenced-based practice as a lever for change, the ICC was developed to provide a seamless, integrated patient- and family- centred care approach from diagnosis to survivorship. Click here for the full article

Quality Improvement Initiative(s) Within an Organization

2019 Recipient: Megamorphosis - Shifting from an Institutional to a Social Model in Residential (Long Term) Care

Providence Health Care 

The Megamorphosis project is Providence Health Care’s residential care’s movement to transform from an institutional to a social model of care, and to improve the lives of residents, staff and families. Using the novel methodology of human-centred design, Megamorphosis focussed on increasing the engagement of each resident through the following principles: emotional connections matter most, residents direct each moment, and home is a feeling. PHC has seen sustained increases in positive and social emotional connections between staff and residents, increased personalization of resident spaces, and increased resident engagement in every day activities. Click here for the full article