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The
Manitoba Home Care
Program, established in its present form in
September 1974, is the oldest comprehensive, province-wide,
universal home care program in Canada. Home Care is provided to
Manitobans of all ages based on assessed need and taking into
account other resources available to the individual including
families, community resources and other programs.
In 2002-03 the
average number of clients receiving coordinated Home Care services
each month was 21,115 and an estimated 35,000 Manitobans in total
received Home Care services in the year.
The Regional Health Authorities employ
approximately 5,500 individuals on a casual basis to deliver
approximately 6,900,000 units of direct service per year.
Home Care Roles and Responsibilities -
Manitoba Health
Manitoba Health is responsible
for:
- Strategic planning for priority populations;
- Home Care policy development and interpretation;
- monitoring and analysis of Program activity and its impact on
the target population and the health care delivery system;
- development and monitoring of standards and provincial outcomes;
- research on, and development of, program benchmarks and best
practices;
- management information system standards and development in
conjunction with the Regional Health Authorities and;
- liaison with other components of the health system in Manitoba
and Canada.
Home Care Roles and Responsibilities -
Regional Health Authorities
The Regional Health Authorities (RHA's) have operational
responsibility for Home Care including planning, delivery and ongoing
management of the services.
The RHA's are responsible for:
- accepting referrals and determining eligibility for home care
services, based on a multi-disciplinary assessment;
- developing a plan of care which takes into account the needs of
the individual and family as well as available community resources
- determining the amount and type of services to be provided by
home care
- securing, scheduling and supervising the appropriate resources
to meet home care service requirements;
- developing and maintaining a "pool" of service
providers and resources to ensure continuity in the availability
of resources;
- establishing quality assurance processes for ongoing care
planning, monitoring and evaluation of services, including
documentation of regional policies and procedures;
- managing the personal care home placement process for
individuals whose care can no longer be provided in the community;
- developing and maintaining liaisons with other components of the
health care system to ensure a collaborative and coordinated
approach to the delivery of health services across the continuum
of care;
- establishing and maintaining a quality improvement
process that perpetuates practices that contribute to and enhance
quality in service delivery, and that identifies areas that require
improvement; and
- collecting and analyzing data related to the delivery of home
care services for the purposes of critiquing existing practice and
planning for future home care service demand.
Questions regarding the above can be directed to the Regional
Health Authorities.
In Winnipeg, please contact the Winnipeg
Regional Health Authority at (204) 940-2655.
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