Abstract
Background: The Greater Hamilton Health Network (GHHN) is one of the first of 57 Ontario Health Teams across the province, and one of twelve chosen as an accelerated OHT, with the purpose of transforming healthcare in partnership with patients, families, care partners, primary care, local organizations, and the community that is equitable, culturally safe, and patient centred. The GHHN has been built on collective efforts to improve population health and encourage integrated health and social care.
If the time for healthcare transformation is now, and the opportunity to act is ours, the first question we need to ask ourselves, is on what values and principles will we build and understand our vision for healthcare so that we are able to move into action with confidence and clarity of purpose.
Leaders hold the tension to consider and plan new ways of approaching complex problems through forming a strong foundation that considers the roles, values and principles of engagement, equitable healthcare and multisectoral leadership. While we are often caught between the need to transform and the need to continue providing care in a fast-paced world, both require an integrated care approach.
When considering integrated care approaches and system design there are elements; engagement, leadership, and equity, that are vital to its success that are sometimes overlooked and underdeveloped. To understand the importance of these elements we must first consider the role of leadership and the values and principles that underpin the actions of an organization and system.
Summary (Core aim of the workshop): In this workshop we will explore how having shared values and vision among partners that is soundly rooted in health equity, engagement and integrated care allows leaders and organizations to confidently move more easily into meaningful action.
Come prepared to discuss the balance between adaptive and transformational approaches to system change and how shared values support integrated care approaches.
Target audience: This workshop is open to everyone and will work to provide meaningful learning, unlearning, relearning and reflection opportunities for individuals working toward system transformation founded in a shared vision and integrated care.
Facilitators / speakers (names and roles)
- Melissa McCallum, Executive Director, Greater Hamilton
Health Network
Key Learnings/Take away
Considering the importance of shared values and vision among partners rooted in health equity, engagement and integrated care allows leaders and organizations to confidently move more easily into meaningful action. Attendees will:
- Explore the connections between shared values, integrated care, system transformation, and meaningful action
- Hear stories about shared values and vision among partners in implemented integrated care projects
- Understand the importance of engagement and partnership of people with lived and living experience
- Explore the role of leaders and organizations to develop a solid foundation to support workplace culture, shared values among multi-sectoral partners and collective action
- Explore adaptive and transformation approaches to system change that support a shared vision
Format
- 15 mins- Intro (introductions, overview of GHHN, purpose of workshop and objectives)
- 30 Minutes- Formal Presentation (shared values and vision among partners that is soundly rooted in health equity, engagement and integrated care allows leaders and organizations to confidently move more easily into meaningful action)
- 30 minutes- Engaging participants: facilitated discussion, exploring values and vision beyond the wall plaque
- 10 Minutes- feedback and questions
- 5 Minutes- Closing