{"title":"Working Toward Healthcare Integration: A Broad-Based Community Effort in Muskoka, Ontario.","authors":"David J Mathies","doi":"10.12927/hcpap.2020.26158","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A group with a broad representation of providers and engaged citizens (called, aptly enough, the Muskoka and Area Health Transformation, or MAHST) was formed to look for impediments to a sustainable health system in Muskoka, and propose solutions. Eventually, this group recommended a single governance for all of its community's healthcare. The current effort to develop an Ontario Health Team (OHT) should bring this endeavour to reality.</p>","PeriodicalId":35522,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare Papers","volume":"19 1","pages":"19-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Healthcare Papers","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap.2020.26158","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A group with a broad representation of providers and engaged citizens (called, aptly enough, the Muskoka and Area Health Transformation, or MAHST) was formed to look for impediments to a sustainable health system in Muskoka, and propose solutions. Eventually, this group recommended a single governance for all of its community's healthcare. The current effort to develop an Ontario Health Team (OHT) should bring this endeavour to reality.
期刊介绍:
Integrating community-based health and social care has grabbed international attention as a way of addressing the needs of aging populations while contributing to health systems" sustainability. However, integrating initiatives in different jurisdictions work (or do not work) within very various.