Better Care Close to Home

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Better Care Close to Home

• Hospital Growth Funding Campaign
• Information Package

www.gta905health.com
March 22, 2006
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Caring for Over 3 Million Ontarians

• GTA/905 REGION OVERVIEW

• Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital
• Halton Healthcare Services Milton
• Halton Healthcare Services Oakville Trafalgar
• The Credit Valley Hospital
• Trillium Health Centre Mississauga
• Trillium Health Centre Queensway
• William Osler Health Centre - Brampton
• William Osler Health Centre Etobicoke
• William Osler Health Centre Georgetown
• Markham Stouffville Hospital
• Southlake Regional Health Centre
• York Central Hospital
• Markham Stouffville Hospital Uxbridge
• Lakeridge Health Port Perry
• Lakeridge Health Whitby
• Rouge Valley Health System Ajax Pickering
• Lakeridge Health Oshawa
• Whitby Mental Health Centre
• Rouge Valley Health System Centenary

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Ontarios Fastest Growing Communities

• THE GTA/905 REGION BY THE NUMBERS

• Over 3 million residents reside in the GTA/905
  Regions of Durham, Halton, Peel and York.
• Represents 25 percent of Ontario residents.
• Grows by 100,000 residents each year (like
  dropping the residents of Kingston into the
  GTA/905 region each year).

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Ontarios Fastest Growing Communities

• HISTORICAL POPULATION GROWTH

From 1996 to 2003, the GTA/905 led Toronto and
Ontario in growth.

• Ontario grew at a rate of 14.6.
• GTA/905 more than double that of Ontario at 33.9.

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Exceptional Seniors Growth

• DOUBLE THE PROVINCIAL GROWTH RATE IN SENIORS

Seniors use four to five times the average amount
of hospital resources placing more intense
pressure on Alliance hospitals.
Source March 2005 MoF/StatsCan population
forecasts based on 2001 Census
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Ontarios Fastest Growing Communities

• FUTURE GROWTH

GTA/905 will grow twice as fast as Ontario (
14.1 in Ontario and 27.2 in GTA/905)
Source March 2005 MoF/StatsCan population
forecasts based on 2001 Census
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Ontarios Fastest Growing Communities

• GTA/905 MAKES UP HALF THE ANNUAL
• POPULATION GROWTH IN ONTARIO

2004 - 2011
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Building a Sustainable Health Care System

• COST SCENARIOS FOR CARING FOR GTA/905 RESIDENTS
  BY 2007
• Care Close to Home Costs Less!

301.5M
281.1M
269.3M
188.8M
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Savings Opportunities

• LOCALIZATION INDEX

The Localization Index shows what percentage of
the residents receive hospital care within the
LHIN (i.e., close to home). GTA/905 LHINs have
the four lowest localization index GTA/905
average 66.6 Provincial average 82.3
Ontario excluding GTA/905 88.6
Source MOHLTC LHIN Bulletin No. 9 / April 1, 2005
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Fair Funding?

• REGIONAL PER CAPITA FUNDING COMPARISON

SourceAge-Weighted 2001 Census Data, MOHLTC MIS
Hospital Data and MOHLTC 2005/06 Hospital Funding
Announcement
Based on comparison of per capita funding of
regions versus provincial average calculated by
excluding Toronto Northern Ontario
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Growing CCAC Funding Gap

• REGIONAL PER CAPITA CCAC FUNDING COMPARISON

Source Age-Weighted Population Data 2001
Census, Regional Expenditure Data OACCAC
Based on comparison of per capita funding of
regions versus provincial average
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Impact of Underfunding

• ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN ONTARIO

• Report examines rates of access to hospital care
  per 100,000 residents within LHINS and average
  wait times for patients within LHINS.
• Examines five wait times for 12 procedures.
• Findings
• For 9 of 12 procedures, residents living in
  GTA/905 LHINs have rates of access per 100,000
  residents that are lower than provincial average
  (for 6 of 9 procedures GTA/905 LHINs were the
  lowest to third lowest)
• For another 9 of the 12 procedures, residents
  living in GTA/905 LHINs have rates of access per
  100,000 residents that are lower than Northern
  Ontario
• GTA/905 residents are also waiting 4 were
  longer than provincial average, two were at the
  provincial average, 4 were only slightly shorter.
  For rates of access to improve, wait times will
  likely increase.

Source ICES Atlas Access to Health Care
Services in Ontario (April 2005)
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Paying Our Way

• CONTRIBUTION OF GTA/905 RESIDENTS

• 573 million in new revenue will be collected by
  the Government from GTA residents through the
  Health Premium (26 of total premium revenue of
  2.2 billion)
• Durham 109 million (5 of total premium
  revenue)
• Halton 96 million (4)
• Peel 199 million (9)
• York 169 million (8)
• Source Government of Ontario Statistics Canada
  (based on 2003 tax returns)

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Better Care Close to Home

• On Website www.gta905health.com

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Places for Care

• HEALTH CARE STRATEGY FOR ONTARIOS HIGH GROWTH
  REGIONS

• Building Hospital Capacity in Growing Communities
• Funding Hospital Services on the Basis of
  Population
• Ensuring Local Access to the Fullest Range of
  Hospital Services
• Increasing the Supply and Improving the
  Distribution of Health Care Professionals
• Ensuring Local Access to the Full Range of Health
  Care Services
• Make Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs)
  Work for GTA/905 Residents
• Reducing Wait Times Local, Cost-effective, and
  Timely Access to Key Services
• Providing Care to Our Culturally Diverse
  Communities and Responding to Socio-Economically
  Disadvantaged Residents

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Better Care Close to Home

• ITS TIME FOR SOLUTIONS

• Translating Decision-makers Awareness into
  Action
• Growth Funding
• Capital Investments (5 billion in ReNew Ontario)
• Health Care Strategy for High Growth Regions
• LHINs as an Enabler (Popn-based Funding Formula)