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ROYAL VICTORIA REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE
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Today, the Ontario government announced an investment up to $9 million to establish eight new Ontario Health Teams across the province, including the Barrie-area Ontario Health Team (BAOHT).
The BAOHT approval follows two years of collaboration and consultation between local health-care, community and municipal partners. The BAOHT is co-chaired by Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH), the Barrie and Community Family Health Team and patient advocate Donald Carty.
"Embedding the patient, family and caregiver voice in planning and decision making has been, and will remain, essential to achieving our vision at the BAOHT,” says Donald Carty, BAOHT co-chair. “This voice serves well as a compass for this new collaborative way of delivering a connected health-care system that reflects the practices, principles and values that patients, families and caregivers say are important to them."
The 24 Barrie-area OHT partners have a long track record of working together to deliver patient-centred care and seamless transitions of care, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. By strengthening the links between our organizations, we will work together as one coordinated team to better connect patients with the services they need and improve patient outcomes.
People will still access the health system in the usual ways – with a visit to their family doctor, nurse practitioner or the emergency department – but the next steps in their healthcare journey should be coordinated and easy to navigate. Through an Ontario Health Team, patients will experience easier transitions from one provider to another, including, for example, between hospitals, home care providers or long-term care homes.
The BAOHT will care for a population of almost 200,000 people in Barrie, Innisfil, Springwater, Oro-Medonte and Essa, focusing on three key goals: enhancing care for the frail elderly and adult palliative care patients, as well as COVID-19 response and recovery.
Partner organizations involved in the Barrie-Area Ontario Health Team include:
- Alzheimer Society of Simcoe County
- Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle
- Barrie Community Health Centre
- Barrie and Community Family Health Team
- Barrie and Community Family Medicine Clinics
- Barrie Family Health Organization
- Bayshore Healthcare
- Canadian Mental Health Association
- CBI Health
- City of Barrie
- Closing the Gap
- County of Simcoe
- Entite4
- Georgian Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic
- Home and Community Care
- Hospice Simcoe
- New Path
- Ontario Health
- Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
- SE Health
- Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
- Town of Innisfil
- Township of Essa
- Victoria Village
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