Where it is appropriate, some of the above services may be delivered in a group or congregate settings. Home and Community Care Support Services organizations offer a point of access to Ontario's home and community care system by: Assessing need, determining eligibility, and providing or arranging for visiting health and professional services in people's homes; Assessing need, determining eligibility, and providing or arranging for the provision of school health services for children; Assessing need, determining eligibility, and managing admissions to long-term care homes; and Providing information and referrals to the public about other community agencies and services available to them.
Some Home and Community Care Support Services organizations manage admissions to adult day programs, supportive housing and assisted living programs, and to chronic care or rehabilitation beds in hospitals. The services of Home and Community Care Support Services organizations are available to eligible Ontario residents of any age and are fully funded by the Ministry of Health. Home and Community Care Support Services organizations coordinate access to nursing services, physiotherapy services, occupational therapy services, speech-language pathology services, , dietetics services, pharmacy services, diagnostic and laboratory services, respiratory therapy services, social work services, social service work services, personal support services and homemaking services.
Home and Community Care Support Services organizations provide additional support for clients who receive certain in-home professional health-services by purchasing or renting medical supplies and dressings, hospital and sickroom equipment, laboratory and diagnostic services. Home and Community Care Support Services organizations may also train other persons, such as caregivers, to assist with or provide certain of the above services to a particular client.
As a preliminary step in the process, Health Minister Christine Elliott announced Wednesday that five of those six agencies will transfer to Ontario Health as of Dec. Trillium Gift of Life Network, which is responsible for organ and tissue donation and transplantation services, will be transferred later. Elliott said the changes will have no impact on patients, and employees will continue to do the same work, but Ontario Health will now be their employer.
The government has said the LHINs will eventually be eliminated entirely, but for now, five CEOs will remain on to oversee different regions until the merger is complete. We want people to continue to access the same care that they always have, and it will be there for them. Over the summer, the government announced that people in "back-office positions" at the health agencies, including communications, planning, and financial services, were being laid off, while another vacant positions were being eliminated.
Elliott said that represented most of the back-office changes that would be made, but "there may be a small number" of other people who will also lose their jobs. On February 25, , the government announced its plan to modernize the delivery of home and community care with Ontario Health Teams gradually assuming responsibility for care delivery within an integrated and patient-centred service model. At the onset of the pandemic, the province paused the planned transfer of non-patient care LHIN functions to Ontario Health to ensure the stability of the health care system and to focus health care resources on responding to COVID Given the complexity of Ontario's organ and tissue donation system, the transfer of TGLN was also paused to ensure there would be no disruption to patients and families involved with organ and tissue donation.
Ontario is now resuming this process in order to break down long-standing barriers and allow for the seamless coordination of services for patients. Following the transfer, to ensure the ongoing stability of services while home and community care transitions into Ontario Health Teams, LHINs will begin operating under a new business name, Home and Community Care Support Services, to reflect a singular mandate to deliver patient care. During the transition, patients and caregivers will continue to access home and community care services in the same way and use the same contacts.
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