Initiatives
The Grey-Bruce OHT, along with its community partners, is dedicated to enhancing healthcare delivery through a range of innovative projects aimed at improving patient outcomes and system efficiencies. The Grey-Bruce OHT has identified four priority populations to focus on for collaborative system improvement. These populations include: Frail Seniors, Mental Health and Addictions, Unattached Patients, and Palliative Care. To learn more about our priority populations, click here.
Current OHT Supported Initiatives
ConnectMyHealth
Description:
ConnectMyHealth is a secure, web-based digital health solution that provides patients in Ontario Health West Region with a single access point to view their health records from participating hospitals. Operated by the HITS eHealth Office at Hamilton Health Sciences and funded by Ontario Health, ConnectMyHealth consolidates hospital records into one unified view. This project aims to increase awareness of ConnectMyHealth among residents in Grey Bruce, highlight the benefits and features of ConnectMyHealth to increase sign-ups, educate users on how to set up and use ConnectMyHealth effectively, and foster partnerships with local health providers and community organizations to support the initiative. To learn more or to access the GBOHT ConnectMyHealth marketing collateral, click here.
Community Drug and Alcohol Strategy Refresh
Description:
This project refreshes the community drug and alcohol strategy to better serve individuals with mental health and addiction issues in Grey-Bruce. This initiative is supported by a project team that includes the Arising Collective, Grey Bruce Public Health, CMHA, and other leadership groups. The project also engages a peer advisory committee and multiple Grey-Bruce OHT councils and implementation teams to ensure comprehensive support and effective strategy implementation.
Enabling Aging in Place (EAIP)
Description:
This project aims to support frail seniors and unattached patients in Grey Bruce, enabling them to age in place with proper care and navigation services. The target audience is older adults living at home in Grey-Bruce. This initiative is supported by the EAIP Project Team, regional geriatric groups, and several working groups and councils dedicated to improving care for seniors.
Grey-Bruce Community Helpline
Description:
The Grey-Bruce Community Helpline project focuses on improving access to care and navigation services for Grey-Bruce residents. The initiative integrates data and digital tools to ensure equitable care through population health management. The target audience is the general population of Grey Bruce, with support from the navigation communities of practice, community connections, and multiple working groups and councils within the Grey-Bruce OHT. To learn more or to access the GBOHT Community Help Line marketing collateral, click here.
Grey-Bruce Coordinated Care Secure Messaging Pilot Extension
Description:
This initiative aims to enhance coordinated care by extending the use of secure messaging systems. The focus is on data and digital integration to improve care through population health management and equity approaches. The target audience includes the palliative care team, primary care providers, community paramedicine, community nursing, geriatric services, and other support systems. This project is supported by the Grey Bruce Hypercare Care Project Team and various community councils and practice groups.
Grey-Bruce Mental Health & Addiction Measurement-Based Care
Description:
This initiative focuses on implementing measurement-based care for mental health and addictions patients in Grey-Bruce. The target audience includes primary care providers and community and hospital mental health and addictions service providers. The project is supported by the Grey Bruce MH&A Measurement-Based Care Project Team, Greenspace Community of Practice, and various Grey-Bruce OHT councils and implementation teams.
Interdisciplinary Falls Intervention Team
Description:
This project addresses the needs of frail seniors and aims to prevent falls through an interdisciplinary approach involving primary care, allied health, home and community care support services, and emergency services. This initiative is supported by the Interdisciplinary Falls Intervention Project Team, community of practice, and stakeholder groups, along with the Grey-Bruce OHT community and physician councils.
Improved Equity and Access to Palliative Care (IEAPC)
Description:
IEAPC aims to improve palliative care access for Indigenous people and individuals experiencing homelessness or vulnerable housing in Grey Bruce. The project focuses on integrated care through population health management and equity approaches, emphasizing system navigation. This initiative is supported by the IEAPC Project Team, Healthcare Excellence Canada, and various community and physician councils within the Grey-Bruce OHT.
Online Appointment Booking (OAB)
Description:
Facilitating adoption, implementation, and utilization of provincially funded OAB licenses for primary care providers and health service providers in Grey Bruce. Provincial funding is intended to support the transformation of how care is delivered, assisting OHTs and the broader primary health sector to build digital health maturity.
Palliative Care Nurse Navigator Program
Description:
Utilizing Remote Care Monitoring Technology, this project embeds a Palliative Care Nurse Navigator in the family health team to increase primary care’s capacity to deliver a palliative approach to care. Currently this project has launched at three sites in Grey Bruce: Owen Sound Family Health Team, Brockton Family Health Team, and Hanover Family Health Team.
Seamless Care Optimizing Patient Experience (SCOPE)
Description:
SCOPE is a well-established, patient centered navigation tool to help Patients get the right Care, in the right place, at the right time. SCOPE is a platform for primary care engagement, driven and led by and for Primary Care Providers (PCPs) and aims to reduce PCP administrative burden.
Social Prescribing Engaging Cultural Seniors (SPECS)
Description:
The Social Prescriptions Engage Cultural Seniors (SPECS) project is an initiative operated by the Community Waterfront Heritage Centre (CWHC), aimed at enhancing the well-being of seniors by involving them in cultural and community activities. It focuses on social prescribing, which links seniors with non-medical support and activities in their community to improve health and well-being
