Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie identified that currently, patients who have undergone primary elective total joint replacement are not accessing ambulatory rehabilitation according to Rehab Care Alliance (RCA) Guidelines. Opportunity exists to standardize processes to decrease variation and maximize efficiency of service delivery.
The aim of their IDEAS project was by September 30th 2018, reduce wait time for RVH ambulatory rehabilitation by 40% for patients with unilateral total knee replacement and by 10% for unilateral total hip replacement patients.