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Notice to people writing or making presentations to the Advisory Committee on Long-Term Care Homes and Services: The City of Toronto Act, 2006 and the City of Toronto Municipal Code authorize the City of Toronto to collect any personal information in your communication or presentation to City Council or its committees.

The City collects this information to enable it to make informed decisions on the relevant issue(s). If you are submitting letters, faxes, e-mails, presentations or other communications to the City, you should be aware that your name and the fact that you communicated with the City will become part of the public record and will appear on the City’s website. The City will also make your communication and any personal information in it – such as your postal address, telephone number or e-mail address – available to the public, unless you expressly request the City to remove it.

If you want to learn more about why and how the City collects your information, write to the City Clerk’s Office, Advisory Committee on Long-Term Care Homes and Services, 10^th Floor, West,100 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON  M5H 2N2, or by calling 416-392-5227.

Declarations of Interest under the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act.

Confirmation of Minutes - December 18, 2009.

Communications/Reports

The General Manager, Long-Term Care Homes and Services recommends that the Advisory Committee on Long‑Term Care Homes and Services endorse the requested expenditure for $1,700.00 no GST from the divisional Education Donations Account.

The Long-Term Care Homes and Services Division has a variety of donation accounts, including a divisional Education Donations account.  Divisional practice is for any expenditure request from this account to have the support of the General Manager and the Advisory Committee on Long‑Term Care Homes and Services.

At its meeting on November 20, 2009, the Advisory Committee on Long-Term Care Homes and Services approved an expenditure of $4,500.00 plus GST and expenses from the divisional Education Donations Account for a Kipling Acres (KA) management retreat.  In the report, the General Manager noted that KA is undergoing a significant period of change at a time when the home is initiating redevelopment.  The division engaged Steve Mathew in facilitating a series of three one-day workshops in change management and team building.  Mr. Mathew has worked with the division on a number of occasions in the past, as a presenter in the successful "Managing Your Career" program, in facilitating a number of educational and planning events for management teams throughout the division.  Mr. Mathew is also a former Psychogeriatric Resource Consultant (PRC) working closely with homes’ staff.  The three one-day sessions were held on November 26, December 3 and 10, 2009.  This report provides feedback from the workshops and requests approval to utilize the divisional Education Donations Account to support one follow-up educational event in 2010.

There is no impact on the 2010 operating budget. This expenditure request is for use of the Education Donations account and is made in accordance with the criteria for use of this fund.

The General Manager, Long-Term Care Homes and Services recommends that the Advisory Committee on Long-Term Care Homes and Services endorse the requested expenditure not to exceed $5,000.00 plus City printing costs from the divisional Education Donations Account.

The Long-Term Care Homes and Services Division has a variety of donation accounts, including a divisional Education Donations account.  Divisional practice is for any expenditure request from the Education Donations account to have the support of the General Manager and the Advisory Committee on Long-Term Care Homes and Services.

The Long-Term Care Homes and Services Division strongly supports succession planning.  Current research shows that there is a shortage of qualified health care professionals and that the future shows no immediate improvement.

The Long-Term Care Homes and Services Division offers a career discovery program for staff who demonstrates the potential to move into a future management position.  Entitled "Managing Your Career", the program is offered every two years and the evaluations of the programs completed in 2004, 2006 and 2008 show that many staff participating in the program successfully alter their career path.

Participants attend a series of five one-day courses designed to facilitate learning and to stimulate thinking about their career path.  Each time the program is scheduled, "Managing Your Career" is offered to approximately 20 staff from the various homes and community-based services.

This report describes plans to schedule the program in 2010 and requests approval on the requisite costs from the division’s Education Donations Account.

Accreditation Canada is a not-for-profit, independent organization providing national and international healthcare organizations with voluntary, external peer reviews to assess the quality of each organization’s services based on pre-determined standards of excellence.  Accreditation Canada provides accreditation programs for all types of healthcare organizations, including regional health authorities, hospitals, long-term care homes, community care and specialized healthcare services, from both private and public sectors, in Canada and around the world.

Although the City of Toronto’s Long-Term Care Homes and Services Division has participated in the accreditation program since 1985, each long-term care home was surveyed as a single entity.  In 2009, the division applied to be accredited at the divisional level, with all ten long-term care homes, four adult day programs, supportive housing and homemakers and nurses services being surveyed as an integrated healthcare organization.  As a result, the division was able to plan and receive feedback related to operation as an integrated division, with relationships and linkages to other corporate divisions, community partners, individual homes and community programs.

The division was surveyed May 24 – 29, 2009 and received an exceptionally strong forecast report, with only three unmet criteria, out of a total of 619 criteria assessed during the survey.  Following survey visits, Accreditation Canada requires submission of evidence taken in relation to the forecast report, prior to issuing the final report.  The final report was issued on December 23, 2009, and verified compliance with 100% of the criteria and divisional results that exceeded national averages in relation to every criteria and every required organizational practice (ROP).  This report summarizes the final report received from Accreditation Canada.

At the December 18, 2009 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Long-Term Care Homes and Services, the Committee asked staff to report back on the extent of current wait lists for admission to each of the 10 long-term care homes, in order to augment the data available in the various Home Advisory Committee minutes and provide a division-wide perspective.

Further, the Committee asked staff to consider ways and means of providing periodic division‑wide updates about the extent of the wait lists.

This report provides data related to the current wait lists and suggests next steps.

There are no financial implications arising from this report.

The purpose of the following reports is to provide members of the Long-Term Care Homes and Services Advisory Committee with copies of the Minutes of the following meetings for their information:

1.         (January 4, 2010) Minutes of Carefree Lodge Home Advisory Committee meeting on
November 24, 2009

2.         (January 4, 2010) Minutes of Cummer Lodge Home Advisory Committee meeting on
November 2, 2009

3.         (January 4, 2010) Minutes of Cummer Lodge Home Advisory Committee meeting on
December 7, 2009