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Canadian Health Minister Sets Health System Goals

Wed, 11/08/2000 - 1:00am — Karen Stevenson
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One of these projects, whose results are being eagerly awaited by stakeholders across Canada, is taking place here in Montreal. This is a pilot project that will test new ways of delivering integrated health services to vulnerable seniors and evaluate the benefits of this approach. The project involves 600 elderly people in the Bordeaux-Cartierville and C'des-Neiges districts of Montreal. The concept is to work with interdisciplinary teams to offer an integrated range of relevant health services to these individuals.

This project will demonstrate new ways of organizing health services to optimize the quality and level of care afforded the growing segment of the population which is aging. More to the point, this project is not premised on creating a single delivery model that will be broadly imposed. It is premised on creating a knowledge base that all provinces and territories can build on and expand in order to develop new and more effective systems tailored to their distinct realities.

One of these projects, whose results are being eagerly awaited by stakeholders across Canada, is taking place here in Montreal. This is a pilot project that will test new ways of delivering integrated health services to vulnerable seniors and evaluate the benefits of this approach. The project involves 600 elderly people in the Bordeaux-Cartierville and C'des-Neiges districts of Montreal. The concept is to work with interdisciplinary teams to offer an integrated range of relevant health services to these individuals.

This project will demonstrate new ways of organizing health services to optimize the quality and level of care afforded the growing segment of the population which is aging. More to the point, this project is not premised on creating a single delivery model that will be broadly imposed. It is premised on creating a knowledge base that all provinces and territories can build on and expand in order to develop new and more effective systems tailored to their distinct realities.