improving
Facility Based Assessments
199
IHF
67
OHP
266
total
Independent Health Facilities
Outcomes
3%
Licensing Action
Required by MOHLTC
97%
Satisfactory
Assessment
Out of Hospital Assessment
Outcomes
3%
Fail
24%
34%
Deferred
Pass
39%
Pass with Conditions
16
delivering services in Ontario including but not limited
to diagnostic imaging, sleep medicine, and non-cosmetic
insured plastic surgery.
Out-of-Hospital Premises (OHPs)
Our involvement in facilities regulation expanded in 2010
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 (OHPs) providing health services under specified
types of anesthesia and sedation. The College sought to
develop this program to address a significant threat to
patient safety as we came to learn of facilities that were
providing uninsured, complex surgical interventions for
cosmetic purposes, but that were not captured under any
other form of oversight.
The College is wholly responsible for this program,
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 292 OHPs operating in Ontario, providing services
including, but not limited to, pain management, plastic
surgery, and endoscopy.
The Quality Management Partnership
The College’s role in assuring the safety and quality of
facilities continues to grow in scope. In March 2013,
the Ministry announced a formal partnership between
the College and Cancer Care Ontario: the Quality
Management Partnership.
Over the last two years, the Partnership has designed
quality management programs that would ensure consistent
quality of colonoscopy, mammography and pathology
services for patients in whatever setting the services are
provided (e.g., community, hospital). The Partnership now
has the mandate to implement these changes. The programs
include common facility standards, reports for both
physicians and facilities, and supports for improvement.
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