The Regional Municipality of Durham

Hillsdale Estates – 300 bed home located in Oshawa, Ontario

Lakeview Manor – 149 bed home located in Beaverton, Ontario

Networking, Knowledge Transfer and Supporting

other RAI Coordinators

Four Homes implementing RAI-MDS Phases 1 – 4

Decided to meet monthly to discuss issues/concerns

Collaboration was useful to each one of us.

Were other homes met with similar challenges/issues?

Beginning of the Durham Region RAI Coordinator network

Spoke with a contact at the project portal.

Advised of a similar network in the Ottawa region.

Contacted the individual who started the network in Ottawa.

He provided us with some helpful hints.

Our journey began…….

Obtained a list of all Durham Region Long Term Care Facilities

Contacted RAI Coordinators via email.

No email, we phoned the home directly for contact information.

The email went out to the group of RAI Coordinators to seek interest.

The answer was an “overwhelming YES!!!”

 

19 Invitations went out to join us

Provided refreshments

Comfortable environment

10 out of 19 homes were represented

First meeting – February 3, 2010

Meet and Greet

Details surrounding each one of us

Drafted our term of reference

Decision to meet monthly

Rotate home sites for the host and chair  

Some of the issues that were brought

to the table……..

The dreaded buy in by staff, accepting change

Who, what and how were RAPS being done?

Implementing Restorative/Rehabilitation Program

Overall duties of a RAI Coordinator

Auditing process, education

RUG groupings/scores, maximizing your CMI

Some of the challenges associated with the Network….

Commitment, finding the time to attend

Some facilities were unable to host

Frequency of meetings

Locations, being able to meet in person

Finding outside partners to speak at meetings

Some of the community partners asked to

attend our meetings were:

Duty Inspectors College of Nurses Neighboring Universities and Colleges LHIN - Local Health Integration Network

Other ways to improve and move forward

SHRTN – Seniors Health Research Transfer Network

Attended a planning day sponsored by SHRTN

Informative day which walked you through the process

Community of Practice

SHRTN Collaborative is a network of networks

Partnership that includes the Seniors Health Research Transfer Network (SHRTN) Knowledge Exchange, the Alzheimer Knowledge Exchange (AKE), Ontario Research Coalition (ORC)

Created in 2005, Grant of Ministry of Health and Long term care

Grown and developed into a significant knowledge and exchange network

Links caregivers, researchers and policy makers in the province of Ontario with the aim of improving care of seniors in Ontario.

Membership is free http://beta.shrtn.on.ca

Membership of SHRTN as well as specific Communities of Practice (CoP) within the website

CoP is a group of people to exchange information

Form of interactive education programs, awareness initiatives

Examples of CoP’s are: Continence Care, Diabetes, Mental Health, Wound Care, Nutrition, Hospice Palliative Care, Falls Prevention and Medication Safety

CoP is a community or group of people who have made a commitment to be available to each other

Offers support to share learning, and to consciously develop new knowledge

Membership of SHRTN CoPs (Community of Practice) have increased quickly over the last year

CoP is supported by a Knowledge Broker and an Information Specialist

SHRTN members participated in over 250 knowledge exchange events and over 350 meetings this year in person

Apply to be a Community of Practice for RAI-MDS

Application process was detailed and lengthy

Community of Practice would require a lot of our attention and time

SHRTN representatives asked us if we would be interested in becoming one of the first “Community of Interest”

The application was made, accepted, the partnership agreement was completed and we are now included on the website under RAI-MDS CoI (Community of Interest)

This partnership allows us the opportunity to utilize the technology provided by SHRTN for our networking group, such as teleconferences, webinars.

It has also brought attention to our Network, we’ve been asked to speak at other LTC Facilities outside of our region on how to develop and implement their own network.

Alberta:   Health Research Transfer Network of Alberta  http://www.aihealthsolutions.ca

Saskatchewan:   Quality Worklife Quality Healthcare Collaboration http://www.qwqhc.ca/knowledge-exchange-resource

Manitoba: Canadian Cancer Society Knowledge Exchange Network http://www.cancer.ca/manitoba/prevention

Manitoba: Knowledge Exchange and Community Planning http://www.gov.mb.ca/healthychild/pdre/knowledge

Quebec: Reseau de recherche en sante des populations du Quebec http://www.santepop.qc.ca/en/axesstrategiques/puc.html  (web site available in English)

Newfoundland: Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research http://www.mun.ca/regoff/calendar/sectionNo=GENINFO-0701

New Brunswick: Community on Aging Knowledge Exchange http://www.cakens.com  

University of British Columbia - Evidence-based Health Care http://toby.library.ubc.ca/subjects

University of Manitoba - Evidence-based Health Care Linkshttp://www.umanitoba.ca

Centre for Health Evidence http://www.cche.net/about.asp

University of Toronto - Evidence Resources - websiteshttp://www.cebm.utoronto.ca

Evidence-based Health Care - Ottawa Hospital

Links to clinical trials and systematic reviews, critical appraisal resources and critically appraised papers, Cochrane collaboration, educational resources etc.http://www.ottawahospital.on.ca

Evidence-based Resources - Kellogg Library - Dalhousie Universityhttp://www.library.dal.ca/kellogg/bestevidence/evidence.htm

University of Ottawa - Evidence-based Health http://www.uo-epc.org

Our goals are

To continue to generate awareness of the importance of the RAI Coordinator role

Encourage and support others to form their own networking groups within the province.

To generate awareness with Ministry Programs to help facilitate proper assessment and knowledge transfer of RAI-MDS

In conclusion, we challenge every RAI Coordinator to begin a network in their Region!

We hope you enjoyed this presentation and we are hopeful that it has shown you the benefits of networking with other RAI Coordinators as well as other network possibilities in your Provinces and/or Countries.