Big Picture Healthcare Change: Green Shield Canada Foundation Reports Learnings for Collaborative Project
Collaboration Key in Developing Long-term, Meaningful Solutions to Positively Impact Eldercare
(firmenpresse) - TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 10/29/15 -- The Green Shield Canada Foundation (GSCF) announced the key learnings from the Green Shield Canada Foundation Health Innovation Collaborative (GSCF HIC), a three-year outcomes-driven project that funded five innovative health care organizations in Canada with a focus on big-picture change in health care for seniors. This project addressed two challenges affecting the Canadian health care system: the country''s aging population and the costs of supporting those with multiple complex chronic conditions in a hospital or long-term care setting. The GSCF acted as the funder and facilitator of the GSCF HIC, investing more than $3-million since 2012 to support the unique initiatives developed by each GSCF HIC partner.
"With the recent Statistics Canada report that seniors are now outnumbering those under 15 years of age in Canada, it is vital that we develop long-term, meaningful solutions to care for the elder population," says Sarah Saso, Executive Director of the GSCF. "We were able to bring together five passionate, like-minded organizations that are experts in the field of eldercare to identify the unmet needs of seniors living with multiple chronic conditions. Over the past three years, each partner worked collaboratively to developed innovative initiatives to address these essential needs. There is no road map for collaboration in healthcare that we could find, but we discovered, through the HIC, that in working together, we were creating one."
The GSCF Health Innovation Collaborative worked to achieve the following:
Each Health Innovation Collaborative member organization was chosen for their unique and innovative approach to improving health care. The organizations and their respective projects funded by the GSCF include:
About Green Shield Canada Foundation
GSC, a national not-for-profit Health Benefits provider, created the Green Shield Canada Foundation (GSCF) in 1992 to act as a catalyst, supporting innovative ideas that pave the way for fundamental, big-picture change in Canadian health care. Its strategy is designed to build community capacity, strengthen public policy and advance knowledge in the health care field to ensure long-term change and address urgent needs. Projects currently funded by the GSCF include The CFCC Capacity Development and Expansion Program in conjunction with Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC), The First Nations, Inuit & Metis Caregiver Support Program with the Saint Elizabeth Foundation and the GSCF''s HIC. For additional information, please visit , or connect with GSCF on (at)GSC Foundation and Twitter .
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