A new partnership – the first of its kind in Northeastern Ontario – allows Timmins and District Hospital patients to receive many services in their homes. They don’t have to stay in the hospital or keep coming back
“Hospital to Home” is in conjunction with Bayshore Health Care.
Outpatient rehab program manager Carla Dolanjski says it serves a 30-kilometre radius around Timmins. However, based on its expected success, that radius could be extended.
“The services could include nursing, personal support and rehabilitation;” she says, “professional services such as social work, occupational therapy (and) physiotherapy.”
You can get those services for 16 weeks before they become the responsibility of Ontario Health at home – the former Homecare.
TADH chief nursing executive Joan Ludwig is confident “Hospital to Home” will succeed.
“Over the past two months,” she notes, “we would have seen 20 patients that would benefit from this that would be in their area of choice of care at home or their retirement residence versus being hospitalized.”
