The Huron-Perth Healthcare Alliance has started another accreditation process.
CEO Andrew Williams said it involves working with two long-term care homes, two family health teams, and two community partners so they can coordinate what they do and standardize those practices.
"By working together and better understanding each other's mandates and roles and the detailed programs that we each offer, we can help our patients and their families get to the right care that they need at the right time," said Williams.
He added with provincial funding being frozen for the last few years they cannot afford to have every hospital offering the same services so they have to specialize and work with each other to provide a complete range of services.
Williams said cardiac is a perfect example.
"We don't do cardiac in Huron-Perth. We refer into Kitchener or London and the hospitals have very strong relationships with those people who provide those services to ensure that the residents of Huron-Perth have equitable access to those services where they are offered and when they're needed," he said.
Andrew Williams, Huron-Perth Healthcare Alliance CEO (Bob Montgomery photo)
