The C-E-O of the Huron-Perth Healthcare Alliance says the relationship between hospitals and the Community Care Access Centres is critical, so hospital administrators want to be at the table when the province discusses the future of the CCAC's.
The Health Ministry has talked about scaling down or even eliminating CCAC's. But Andrew Williams points out the CCAC's have a major role to play when patients are transferred from hospitals to home care, so hospitals are concerned about any possible changes at the ground level.
Williams adds if the Ministry decides to collapse Community Care Access Centres into the LHIN's, the expectation would be that something else would be there to facilitate the transfer of patients from hospitals to home care.
Williams explains they work very closely with the CCAC Case Managers that are in all four Alliance hospitals and have an essential role in determining the patient's needs as they move out of a hospital.
