Facility-Based Assessments
Independent Health Facilities
The College’s involvement in the oversight of facilities began in the
early 1990s, when we developed the standards and tools for conducting assessments of Independent Health Facilities (IHFs).
The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is responsible for
identifying those IHFs that are to be assessed, for decision-making
regarding facility outcomes and enforcement, and for maintaining a
public register of facilities. Currently, there are 934 IHFs delivering
services in Ontario. IHFs mostly provide diagnostic services such
as radiology; ultrasound; magnetic resonance imaging; computed
tomography; nuclear medicine; pulmonary function studies; and
sleep medicine.
934
IHFs in Ontario
Of 140 IHFs assessed, the outcome was:
4%
Satisfactory – 96%
96%
Clinical Concerns
identified (Licensing
Action required by
MOHLTC) – 4%
Out-of-Hospital Premises Inspection Program
In 2010, our involvement in facility-based assessments expanded with
the development of the Out-of-Hospital Premises Inspection Program
(OHPIP), which was created to regulate another subset of facilities,
namely, Out-of-Hospital Premises (OHP) providing health services
under specified types of anesthesia and sedation.
The College is wholly responsible for this program, determining
through self-reported information which facilities are OHPs, developing the standards and tools for assessment, making decisions about
facility outcomes, enforcing these outcomes, and posting these outcomes on our public register. Currently there are 273 OHPs operating
in Ontario and they provide mostly surgical and procedural services,
such as cosmetic surgery, colonoscopies, interventional pain procedures and cataract surgeries.
The Premises Inspection Committee (PIC), which oversees the
OHPIP, has completed inspection-assessments of all premises that
were in existence when the OHPIP regulation came into effect in
2010. The PIC will inspect and assess new premises as they become
273
OHPs in Ontario
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