Ontario Making it Easier and More Convenient to Connect to Home Care

The government is introducing the Convenient Care at Home Act, 2023, to make Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) responsible for connecting people to the high-quality home care services they need starting in 2025.

With 57 out of 58 OHTs approved across the province, Ontarians will continue to experience easier transitions in care with one patient record and one care plan shared between providers. To support this work, we are investing over $128.2 million to provide each OHT with $2.2 million over three years to better coordinate people’s care.

If passed, this legislation will establish a new, single organization called Ontario Health at Home that would coordinate all home care services across the province through OHTs and provide people with easy-to-understand home care plans detailing the care they are going to receive at home.

An initial group of 12 OHTs have been chosen to accelerate their work to deliver home care in their local communities starting in 2025 and transition people experiencing chronic disease through their primary care, hospital, and home and community care needs.

News Releases;

EN: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1003589/ontario-making-it-easier-and-more-convenient-to-connect-to-home-care

FR: https://news.ontario.ca/fr/release/1003589/lontario-facilite-et-rend-plus-commode-lacces-aux-soins-a-domicile