The health planner's toolkit : Integration : a range of possibilities

The legislation that management of the health system at the local level by created and empowered LHINs (an Act to provide for local health integration networks.” 2006, c. 4, s. 1. the integration of the local system for the delivery of health services) does not permit that LHINs merge This section of the Act clearly states the government of existing health organizations’ boards. [...] This Policies and Protocols Guide to Figure 6: Process and Structure PEOPLE-CENTRED GOALS This is the STRUCTURE of integration – These are the PROCESSES of integration – the organizational walls, doorways, formalized the interdependent flows of activity moving in agreements and other visible structural elements the same direction, toward the same goals meant to energize and direct integration proc [...] The language of integration speaks of a continuum, This relates to what kinds of activities are integrated, from none to lots or from loose to tight, but it is more including: accurate to think of integration as the interaction of • clinical activities; three dimensions: • support activities; and, • norms and values. [...] A review of evidence from the Ontario Regional Stroke Strategy and the Ontario Dementia Care Networks The formalized cooperation at the heart of the definition Study25 identifies seven strategies to advance the of a network is achieved through structures that can practice and research agendas related to network include any or all of the following: development and evaluation:26 • written terms of r [...] Page 15 Integrating the Clinical Team Inter-professional teamwork is considered to be an Integration of the full clinical team addresses the extent essential dimension of integration to improve the to which members of a number of clinical professions effectiveness of health services, and the formation and are economically linked to a system, use its facilities and maintenance of clinical teams is