MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire -06\/07\/12)- The Mississauga Halton Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) last night unveiled its 2011-2012 Annual Report to the Community, entitled \"Health Care At Home,\" revealing the organization's achievements of the last fiscal year, including: an increase in the number of clients served; an increase in the number of visits received by clients; helping more frail, elderly clients to remain safely at home and out of long-term care facilities; and maintaining an Alternate Level of Care (ALC) rate of just 6.5 percent. Only seven out of 100 hospital beds are being used by patients who could be better served in the community; so patients who need to be in hospital for surgical or medical treatments can be admitted faster. <\/p>\n
\"Our Health Care At Home report confirms that the demand and need for home care in our region are increasing as the seniors' population grows,\" says Caroline Brereton, chief executive officer of the Mississauga Halton CCAC. \"More than one-in-two of our clients are aged 75 years or older, many with multiple chronic and complex health conditions requiring very intense levels of personalized care. We are providing these older adults with a level of care in their own homes that, until recently, was only available in hospital.\" <\/p>\n
More Clients, More Care, More Value <\/p>\n
The Mississauga Halton CCAC's Stay at Home program provides home care to citizens in need of support to remain at home instead of entering institutionalized care. In 2011-2012, 98.2 per cent of clients in the Stay at Home program remained safely at home and out of long-term care facilities. <\/p>\n
The organization's palliative and end-of-life programs experienced double-digit growth of 10 per cent in 2011-2012. More than 1,600 citizens received highly specialized, compassionate care as they fulfilled their wish to die with dignity, in their own homes. <\/p>\n
The number of clients receiving Short Stay services - including anyone recovering from joint replacement surgery, requiring wound care, or requiring intravenous therapy - increased by 15 per cent. Nearly 30,000 clients were able to move from hospital to home three days earlier, on average, saving approximately $1.3-million in hospital days. <\/p>\n
Last year also saw continued strong collaboration between the Mississauga Halton CCAC and its regional hospital partners to move more patients from hospital to home - safely. The Mississauga Halton CCAC achieved an ALC rate of just 6.5 per cent, meaning that only seven out of 100 hospital beds were occupied by patients who could receive more appropriate care in the community. The year-end result is also well below the Mississauga Halton Local Health Integration Network's target of eight per cent. <\/p>\n
Also in 2011-2012, the Mississauga Halton CCAC's Health Care Connect program helped 1,702 people find a family doctor. Currently, there are just 770 citizens who have requested and are waiting to be matched with a family doctor, one of the lowest rates of residents without a primary care physician in Ontario. <\/p>\n
Virtual Tours of Long-Term Care Facilities <\/p>\n
Last evening the Mississauga Halton CCAC announced it will now make the wait list numbers available to the public for each of the region's 27 long-term care facilities. A new online resource features virtual tours of each long-term care facility, the number of clients waiting for each facility and answers to frequently asked questions about the application process. Prior to its official launch, the virtual tour videos had already been collectively viewed more than 1,100 times. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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