The purpose of this community of practice is to support Regional Renal Programs and their Quality Improvement Teams who are implementing the Access to Kidney Transplantation and Living Donation (AKT) Strategy. CoP members will gain access to provincial resources and, in addition to meetings, will use this online space to support learning and collaboration across Regional Renal Programs. Feel free to post your questions, useful resources and stories/experiences so we can all learn from each other.

Private group of advance practice providers (APP) to collaborate, network, share knowledge, and support the implementation of Rapid Access Clinics (RAC) for hip and knee arthritis.

For those in the Bundled Care program, the purpose of this Community of Practice is to allow members to support each other to successfully implement bundled care and funding. Through this Community of Practice, members will develop relationships and learn and develop new practices.

Note: This Community of Practice is no longer supported by Ontario Health, but serves as a place for learning, sharing, and collaboration among members.

The Bundled Care Compendium is a key resource that includes relevant policies
and Q & As from the first two years of bundled care implementation and can be located here (copy and paste link): https://bit.ly/3MfQI1B

This Central East Stroke Network (CESN) Community of Practice is a forum for leaders, educators and front-line clinicians that support implementing and sustaining quality stroke unit care (ISU, acute/rehabilitation units). The forum is a platform for members representing organizations within the Central East Stroke region (Simcoe, Muskoka, York, Durham & HKPR) to share experiences, foster collaboration, and support each other to advance best practice and standardization.

Through this CoP members will increase their awareness of best practices and provincial initiatives and gain access to resources, tools and strategies that can be used to improve the quality of care provided within existing stroke units (ISU, Acute/Rehab units) and in implementing new units.

The Community Stroke Rehabilitation Community of Practice (CoP) is for Regional Stroke Network staff, Ontario Health regional staff, and clinical and administrative staff involved in implementing the new Model of Care for Community Stroke Rehabilitation across Ontario. Through this CoP members will increase their awareness of leading practices and gain access to resources, tools and strategies that can be used to improve the quality of care provided within existing CSR programs and in standing up new programs. Members will work together to identify solutions to common challenges, share lessons learned, and collaborate towards future sustainability of programs.

NOTE: This is a private group dedicated to members of the Complex Care for Kids Ontario (CCKO) Nursing Community of Practice (CoP) only.

The CCKO Nursing CoP is expected to perform the following functions:

1. To foster collaboration and enhance communication between the four regional lead sites and their respective satellite partners across Ontario.

2. Facilitate the sharing of best practices, knowledge, and experiences for the purposes of advocacy, building social capital and stimulating new learning through knowledge exchange when caring for children with medical complexities and their families.

3. Support the development, endorsement, and/or dissemination of evidence-based best practice resources, tools and algorithm that would enhance the coordination and care.

The DASH community of practice is for clinical teams working on the development and implementation of quality improvement measures to identify, prevent, manage and reduce hospital acquired delirium. It also brings together interprofessional teams who have an interest in reducing delirium rates at their site.

CoP members will gain access to:
- Tools, resources, and guidance
- Subject matter experts
- Mentorship
- Ongoing data reports

The CoP will be facilitated through:
- This online group to connect members with one another
- Regular virtual meetings

CoP members will share resources, data, implementation challenges and strategies, and problem-solve together to identify and reduce hospital acquired delirium.

The CoP is facilitated by the Clinical Quality Programs at Ontario Health. This CoP is supported by our program clinical leads (Dr. F. Razak, Dr. T. Jackson, and Dr. A. Verma), the Provincial Geriatric Leadership of Ontario (PGLO), and the Regional Geriatric Programs of Toronto (RGP).

Reach out to us at clinicalquality@ontariohealth.ca with any questions you may have.

This community of practice is for Ontario ED Quality Leaders working on the development and implementation of quality improvement initiatives in order to improve clinical care for ED patients. It also brings together front-line clinicians, clinical leads, administrative leads and change management leads to ensure a collaborative approach to implementing these initiatives.

CoP members will gain access key resources, subject matter experts, and connection to other Ontario ED Teams working on QI.

The CoP is facilitated by Ontario Health and supported by the Emergency Services Operations Committee (ESOC). Reach out to us at EDQuality@ontariohealth.ca with any questions you may have.

The Ontario General Medicine Quality Improvement Network (GeMQIN) Community of Practice brings together general medicine teams from across the province dedicated to quality improvement and better health outcomes for patients.

With a focus on using data and sharing best practices in general medicine, our members will exchange knowledge and innovate by connecting with other members.

For more information, please visit Health Quality Ontario’s General Medicine Quality Improvement Network page https://www.hqontario.ca/Quality-Improvement/Quality-Improvement-in-Action/The-General-Medicine-Quality-Improvement-Network or email OH-HQO_GeMQIN@ontariohealth.ca

The Halton Gender Affirming Care Community of Practice is for primary care physicians, specialists and other health professionals looking to build and share their knowledge and skill about gender affirming care to improve access for patients in Halton Region.

CoP members will gain access to resources, peers, champions, coaching, support, and evidence based best practice guidelines for providing not only gender affirming care but also primary care to transgender patients.

CoP members will share resources, challenges, strategies, and problem solve together to improve access to care in the communities of Burlington, Oakville, Milton, and Halton Hills. CoP members will also encourage colleagues in their formal and informal networks to participate and further increase the number of physicians in Halton that can provide this care.

This community of practice is for the Ontario Health regions working on the development and implementation of Health Human Resources (HHR) retention best practices and lessons learned in order to improve HHR retention within and across sectors and the health system partners they engage. It also brings together internal HHR champions who can share information, resources and tools.

CoP members will gain access to:
• Retention practices, tools and programs from regions across Ontario
• Lessons learned from practice implementors
• Champions and stakeholders with subject matter expertise
• A toolkit of curated resources

The CoP will be facilitated through:
• This online space to connect members with one another, and to encourage interaction with information, resources, and tools
• Regular virtual meeting touchpoints
• Webinars from topic experts

CoP members will share resources, implementation challenges and strategies, and problem solve together to support HHR retention regionally.

This CoP is supported by the Office of the Chief Clinical Executives Team at Ontario Health who will be working with the membership and external experts to curate content, tools and resources.

The CoP is facilitated by Lindsey Thompson, Lead, Office of the Chief Clinical Executives. Reach out to lindsey.thompson@ontariohealth.ca with any questions you may have.

LTC+ is a virtual care program developed in partnership with long-term care homes in Toronto, acute care hospitals and community services.

LTC+ provides immediate access to virtual care support and clinical guidance for LTC clinicians and staff.

The purpose of this private group is to share program updates with the clinical ops and implementation support teams.

A shared space for the Common Online Appointment Booking (OAB) Working Group to discuss implementation of online appointment booking for COVID Cold and Flu Care Clinics across Ontario Health (OH) Central Region.

The Ontario Surgical Quality Improvement Network (the Surgical Network) brings together surgical teams from all specialties and hospital types from across the province to form a community dedicated to quality improvement in surgery for better patient outcomes. Focusing on data, and the sharing of best practice in surgery, our members will exchange knowledge, and innovate by connecting with other members.

Please visit http://www.hqontario.ca/Quality-Improvement/Our-Programs/Surgical-Quality-Improvement-in-Ontario or contact ONSQIN@hqontario.ca for more information.

The Ontario Surgical Network Pediatric CoP brings together pediatric surgical teams from all specialties and hospital types from across the province to form a community dedicated to quality improvement in surgery for better pediatric patient outcomes. Members will come together to coordinate surgical QI initiatives, share resources, coordinate meetings, and discuss challenges and successes. Members will use this private space to compare data, resources and collaborate on projects.

Please visit http://www.hqontario.ca/Quality-Improvement/Our-Programs/Surgical-Quality-Improvement-in-Ontario or contact ONSQIN@hqontario.ca for more information.

The purpose of this community of practice (CoP) is to support primary care providers who are implementing initiatives related to COVID-19. This includes, but is not limited to monitoring, vaccination, testing and care of patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome. Members are able to share resources, learnings, tools and strategies, as well as access clinical pathways based on best evidence. The CoP strives to bring together supports for the community through use of connecting calls and webinars, in addition to this online space which serves as a repository for resources as well as a space to support learning, sharing, problem solving, and collaboration.

All of our past CoP meetings are recorded and are available here: https://bit.ly/3aWL7t5 (copy and paste into your browser)

The Primary Care Quality Improvement Hub provides a comprehensive space with links to tools, resources, and webinars that can support quality improvement in your primary care practice. This one stop hub aims to help you navigate primary care quality improvement information more efficiently. By joining this group, you will also be kept apprised of upcoming webinars, resources, and information for quality improvement offered through Ontario Health and other reliable sources. The primary care quality improvement hub will continue to change and evolve as we learn together. We welcome you to share with the group any additional quality improvement resources that you have found helpful.

This community of practice (CoP) is for clinical, quality improvement and risk management teams across all health sectors developing their Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) – specifically addressing the new patient safety question in the narrative section. This CoP will give members the opportunity to come together with peers to discuss improvement opportunities and share learnings from patient safety related incidents and never events to help improve the culture around patient safety incident reporting.

Members of this group will have:
- Dedicated space to collaborate and share resources, best-practices and lessons learned;
- Gain access to data collection and tools to learn from patient safety incidents and never events; 
- Access to supports and upcoming monthly webinar information;
- Q&A opportunities 

The CoP is supported by clinical leadership and quality improvement specialists at Ontario Health. 

This community of practice is for inter-professional team members from hospitals and community mental health agencies across Ontario who are participating in the Quality Standards Implementation Institute being led by Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, a specialty mental health hospital located in Whitby, Ontario.

The Institute will provide enhanced leadership and customization to support organizations with the implementation of statements from the Quality Standards of Schizophrenia (both Hospital and Community), Major Depression, and Alcohol Use Disorder. The Institute will provide a bespoke model of support ranging from guidance to more in-depth support depending on the organization’s needs and Statement selected.

Members will use this space to share comments and questions, implementation strategy materials and lessons learned in implementing quality statements across different settings.

The purpose of the Safewards Community of Practice is to support the implementation and sustainability of Safewards practice interventions throughout the Ontario Forensic Mental Health care sites. The community of practice is a forum for collaboration, partnership, mentorship, information sharing, and collegial support. The community will share resources and ideas to promote successful implementation and sustainability of Safewards.

This is a group space for Quorum team members to test functionality.