About Integrated Care
What is Integrated Care?
Integrated care describes the reorganization of how health and social services are designed and delivered to provide the right care at the right time. Integrated care is centred around the needs of individuals, their families, and communities, and looks at how they interact with the health and social systems they use. The ultimate goal is to provide care that’s user-friendly, achieves desired results, and provides value for cost.
Integrated care models facilitate seamless care transitions across care settings, and provide wrap-around services that follow patients and families throughout the continuum of care. Integrated care breaks down silos in service delivery by developing interdisciplinary partnerships and collaboration across care settings.
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Why is Integrated Care important?
Health care systems that focus on single diseases or episodes of care create fragmented care delivery, contributing to poor user experiences and outcomes over time. As the health and social needs of Canadians continue to grow in complexity, new approaches to deliver people-centred care is necessary to improve health outcomes, experience, and value for cost.
What is the "‘Quadruple Aim’?
The Quadruple Aim is a framework used to guide the redesign of integrated healthcare systems. It includes four components: patient experience, provider experience, value for cost, and population health.
Integrated Care Goals
Connectively working towards enhancing patient-centered care.
