{"title":"Home care: the cornerstone of health renewal in Nova Scotia.","authors":"R A Jackson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Until recently, home care services in Nova Scotia lacked uniformity and were difficult to access. This changed dramatically last June when the province launched Home Care Nova Scotia, the linchpin in the province's plan for health renewal. The program provides chronic and home hospital care to Nova Scotians of all ages, with five additional categories of care planned for the future. Like the 400 other coordinated home care programs in Canada, Home Care Nova Scotia is one alternative to the inappropriate use of acute and long term care facilities. It is also a valued service in its own right within the continuum of health services.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 6","pages":"5-7, 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21024583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A model of mixed-market healthcare delivery: the British Columbia Transplant Society.","authors":"B Barrable, B Ferguson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Driven by the twin imperatives of cost and quality, healthcare providers must innovate and adapt new management models which continuously improve performance. Focusing specifically on the British Columbia Transplant Society (BCTS), this article describes a successful mixed-market management model for delivering healthcare services to a relatively well-defined patient population which is suffering from chronic disease and has predictable healthcare needs. The BCTS is an example of a healthcare organization which combines the best aspects of both the Canadian and American healthcare systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 6","pages":"18-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21024576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TENS: the Canadian Physiotherapy Association sets the record straight.","authors":"D Parker-Taillon, L Asseraf-Pasin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 6","pages":"8-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21024586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does two-tier medicine cost more?","authors":"S Sholzberg-Gray","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 5","pages":"3, 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21023565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring quality in long term care.","authors":"T Kindrat","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 5","pages":"33-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21023568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of a hospital preadmission program: applying the principles of continuous quality improvement.","authors":"A M MacLeod","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The importance of hospital preadmission programs is increasing in light of the trend toward shorter lengths of stay. New processes are required to prepare patients for same-day admission, to initiate discharge planning at the earliest possible opportunity and to provide education to patients for which there is now less time during hospitalization. This article presents the process and outcomes of one hospital's review of its preadmission program.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 5","pages":"11-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21023562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A journey into program management: clinical perspectives.","authors":"P Beauséjour","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Facing restraint and reform agendas, our healthcare system is undergoing profound changes. This article outlines key clinical issues encountered in the journey from a management-by-functional-departments approach to a program management approach. The author relates his experience as a program director in the traditional system, through a transition year, and then \"going live\" with program management as the clinical director of a new grouping of services.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 5","pages":"36-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21033596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personal calm in a professional storm.","authors":"M D Pavelich, A Leo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 5","pages":"5-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21023569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Benchmarking: breakthrough results through structured analysis.","authors":"D Hay, S Emmons, D Watts","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Benchmarking is the continuous process of measuring processes, services and practices against the toughest competition, or against companies recognized as industry leaders, for the purpose of identifying and adopting best practices. To facilitate this process, the Hamilton Civic Hospitals has developed a series of benchmarking templates, loosely based on the \"unified model\" of quality. This article presents the templates and describes their application as part of a benchmarking feedback loop.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 5","pages":"16-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21023574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Home is where the heart is for elders with cognitive impairment. Interview by Aileen Leo.","authors":"J Kelly","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"4 5","pages":"24-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21044042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}