Acting on Pandemic Learning Together (August 2020 – December 2021)
The Long-Term Care+: Acting on Pandemic Learning Together (LTC+) program supported over 1,500 teams across Canada, including 222 in BC, with seed funding, coaching and virtual learning through huddles and webinars.
LTC+ Teams Across Canada
LTC+ Teams Across BC
Our work focused on improving collaboration and knowledge transfer by helping teams in BC and the Yukon. We led coaching sessions that aimed to provide just-in-time, facilitated conversations and shared learning based on current needs in the health care system.
Visit Healthcare Excellence Canada for more information on LTC+ Acting on Pandemic Learning Together.
Long-Term Care+: Acting on Pandemic Learning Together
Based on findings from a national qualitative review with family partners and health system leaders across Canada1, the Long-term Care+ program helps organizations prepare for and respond to future COVID-19 waves in six key promising practice areas: preparation; prevention; people in the workforce; pandemic response and surge capacity; providing quality and culturally safe care; and the presence of family. Resources are available for each promising practice area. Be sure to also take a look at the core LTC resources here.
Coaching Sessions
Preparation
Reimagining Care For Older Adults COVID 19
This report focuses on steps we can take now to ensure that settings that care for older adults are better prepared for future waves of the pandemic, potentially coinciding with seasonal influenza. It is intended for front-line teams, policy-makers, and others who are spending long hours managing tough situations now, while also trying to look…
LTC+ Acting on Pandemic Learning Together: Six Promising Practices
The Canadian Patient Safety Institute’s report Reimagining Care for Older Adults: Next Steps in COVID-19 Response in Long-Term Care and Retirement Homes identified practices in six key areas that could reduce the risk of another wave ofCOVID-19 or mitigate its effects. This document offers a summary.
CFHI – Identifying Barriers, Facilitators and Recommendations to Long-term Care
Long-term care homes have been at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada with residents accounting for more than 80% of the country’s deaths. The Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement and Canadian Patient Safety Institute identified promising practices and policy options for future infectious disease outbreaks in a recent report. These six practices (preparation,…
BC Long-Term Care: Self-Assessment
We partnered with the Canadian Foundation for Health Improvement to develop this self-assessment (non-exhaustive and non-validated) tool to help long-term care and senior’s assisted living facilities in BC assess pandemic preparedness, inform outbreak response planning and prepare for future waves of COVID-19.
Prevention
Quick Reference Guide for COVID-19 Prevention in Long-term Care: SHIP SHAPE
This document offers a helpful acronym (SHIP SHAPE) for COVID-19 prevention in long-term care and assisted living facilities.
Daily Site COVID-19 Prevention Checklist
Part of preventing COVID-19 outbreaks is ensuring that best practices and protocols are in place each day. This checklist, created by Fraser Health, is designed to support your site readiness.
LTC+ Acting on Pandemic Learning Together: Six Promising Practices
The Canadian Patient Safety Institute’s report Reimagining Care for Older Adults: Next Steps in COVID-19 Response in Long-Term Care and Retirement Homes identified practices in six key areas that could reduce the risk of another wave ofCOVID-19 or mitigate its effects. This document offers a summary.
People in the Workforce
Appropriate Use of Antipsychotics Driver Diagram
Reimagining LTC is another collaboration with Healthcare Excellence Canada. Participating care homes across the country are receiving seed funding, coaching, resources and monthly webinar supports to work on a quality improvement project. Below you will find the Appropriate Use of Antipsychotics Driver Diagram used by the teams to guide their quality improvement projects in this…
Choosing Wisely Toolkit
Reimagining LTC is another collaboration with Healthcare Excellence Canada. Participating care homes across the country are receiving seed funding, coaching, resources and monthly webinar supports to work on a quality improvement project. Below you will find the Choosing Wisely Toolkit used by the teams in this program. If you have any questions, please email april.price@healthqualitybc.ca.
Aim Statement Worksheet
Reimagining LTC is another collaboration with Healthcare Excellence Canada. Participating care homes across the country are receiving seed funding, coaching, resources and monthly webinar supports to work on a quality improvement project. Below you will find an Aim Statement worksheet used by the teams in this program. If you have any questions, please email april.price@healthqualitybc.ca.
Reimagining Long-Term Care (3.0): HEC Improvement Charter
Reimagining LTC is another collaboration with Healthcare Excellence Canada. Participating care homes across the country are receiving seed funding, coaching, resources and monthly webinar supports to work on a quality improvement project. Below you will find the Healthcare Excellence Canada Improvement Charter template used by the teams in this program. If you have any questions,…
Pandemic Response and Surge Capacity
Staffing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This resource guide was written by and for directors of nursing, administrators, and other nursing home leaders. It outlines steps to reduce or eliminate urgent staff shortages, particularly shortages of direct care workers.
LTC+ Acting on Pandemic Learning Together: Six Promising Practices
The Canadian Patient Safety Institute’s report Reimagining Care for Older Adults: Next Steps in COVID-19 Response in Long-Term Care and Retirement Homes identified practices in six key areas that could reduce the risk of another wave ofCOVID-19 or mitigate its effects. This document offers a summary.
Providing Quality and Culturally Safe Care
Choosing Wisely in Long-Term Care
Choosing Wisely Canada’s resource guide is a collection of relevant recommendations, quality improvement toolkits and clinician and patient materials. This guide can support staff caring for LTC residents and ensure limited resources are used wisely.
Organizational Review for Health Care
This resource offers statements that may be used in an organizational review for health care.
Streamlining Medication Use during COVID-19
The purpose of this resource is to consider streamlining medication use in order to reduce repeated contact with care providers, thereby preserving personal protective equipment, reducing risk of viral transmission and creating efficiencies in caregiver workload.
Restoring Trust: COVID-19 and The Future of Long-Term Care
This Policy Briefing Report on Long-Term Care focuses on the workforce. The report begins by reviewing the research context and policy environment in Canada’s long-term care sector before the arrival of COVID-19. It summarizes the existing knowledge base for far-sighted and integrated solutions to challenges in the long-term care sector. The report then outlines profound,…
The Impact of COVID-19 on Long-Term Care in Canada – The First 6 Months
COVID-19 has exacted a heavy price on Canada’s long-term care and retirement homes, resulting in a disproportionate number of outbreaks and deaths. This report follows the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s international comparisons report (June 2020) by taking a closer look at the pandemic experience in long-term care and how it compares between provinces and…
Presence of Essential Care Partners
Choosing Wisely in Long-Term Care
Choosing Wisely Canada’s resource guide is a collection of relevant recommendations, quality improvement toolkits and clinician and patient materials. This guide can support staff caring for LTC residents and ensure limited resources are used wisely.
Organizational Review for Health Care
This resource offers statements that may be used in an organizational review for health care.
Streamlining Medication Use during COVID-19
The purpose of this resource is to consider streamlining medication use in order to reduce repeated contact with care providers, thereby preserving personal protective equipment, reducing risk of viral transmission and creating efficiencies in caregiver workload.
Restoring Trust: COVID-19 and The Future of Long-Term Care
This Policy Briefing Report on Long-Term Care focuses on the workforce. The report begins by reviewing the research context and policy environment in Canada’s long-term care sector before the arrival of COVID-19. It summarizes the existing knowledge base for far-sighted and integrated solutions to challenges in the long-term care sector. The report then outlines profound,…
The Impact of COVID-19 on Long-Term Care in Canada – The First 6 Months
COVID-19 has exacted a heavy price on Canada’s long-term care and retirement homes, resulting in a disproportionate number of outbreaks and deaths. This report follows the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s international comparisons report (June 2020) by taking a closer look at the pandemic experience in long-term care and how it compares between provinces and…
Essential Together Tool: Identifying Strengths and Improvements to Reintegrate Essential Care Partners
Essential care partners are different from general visitors. While visitors have an important social role, they are not active partners in care. Essential care partners provide physical, psychological and emotional support, as deemed important by the patient. There is clear evidence that the presence of essential care partners benefits care, experience, safety and outcomes. The…
Policy Guidance for The Reintegration of Caregivers As Essential Care Partners
The Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute partnered to conduct a “policy lab” to develop policy guidance to support a safe and consistent approach for reintegrating essential care partners back into healthcare facilities, long-term care and congregate care settings during a pandemic. This co-design policy process brought together people with…
The Best Visit Possible – A guide for supporting family visits during COVID-19
Family members or close companions are a vital part of the care teams within long-term care and assisted living homes and enhance the resident experience. As the sector moves forward with visitations, things are far from back to “normal.” The objective of this guide for supporting family visits during COVID-19 is to explore how in-person…
Staying Apart to Stay Safe
During the COVID-19 pandemic, individual care homes were taking very different approaches to managing both essential and social visits. The Office of the Seniors Advocate British Columbia needed to gain a better understanding of the magnitude of the issue and, so they launched a survey specifically for family members and residents of long-term care and…
Caring for Caregivers
COVID-19 public health measures have led to considerable changes in care provision for people living with dementia across the settings in the care continuum, resulting in the need for family caregivers to significantly adapt their caregiving routine to accommodate these ongoing changes. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the COVID-19…
References
1. Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement and Canadian Patient Safety Institute. Reimagining care for older adults: Next steps in COVID-19 response in long-term care and retirement homes [Internet]; [July 2020][cited May 5, 2021] Available from: https://www.cfhi-fcass.ca/innovations-tools-resources/item-detail/2020/07/20/re-imagining-care-for-older-adults-next-steps-in-covid-19-response-in-long-term-care-and-retirement-homes
