The Long-Term Care Initiative is designed to enable divisions of family practice to develop local solutions to improve care for patients in long-term care facilities. The initiative was prototyped by five divisions, beginning in 2011: Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Prince George, South Okanagan Similkameen, and White Rock-South Surrey.
Based on the successes achieved in those communities, the FPSC has earmarked up to $12 million annually to support divisions in designing local, scalable, and sustainable solutions that cover all long-term care facilities in about 104 BC communities.
To learn more about the background of the Long-Term Care Initiative and the work being done by divisions around the province, read the FPSC columns about the initiative in the BC Medical Journal from May 2015 and October 2015.
Dr Ian Bekker, a member of the Victoria Division of Family Practice, with the support of the provincial Divisions office, has developed series of webinars entitled "Long-Term Care: Supporting Physicians Leading Change," with the goal of improving the care of patients living in long-term care by involving physicians in a community of practice. The following resources have been shared by our webinar participants.
Resource Categories
Resource Needed
In addition to sharing resources some of our communities are seeking resources. If you're aware of any mentioned in the table below, please share with our central office as well and the corresponding person below.
| Resource Needed | Description | Who is requesting |
| 5 best practices description | How your division is describing (in detail) the 5 best practices to their physicians. Ex: When physicians ask: What is a 'meaningful medication review' what do you say? | Victoria Division iansbekker@gmail.com |
| How to measure outcomes | Ideas on how to track best practices related to proactive visits, completed documentation and attendance at med reviews and care conferences. | Richmond Division ntai@divisionsbc.ca |
| How to change physician behavior | Logistics around and best practices on how to introduce and support physician attendance at med reviews and care conferences. | Richmond Division ntai@divisionsbc.ca |
| How to measure outcomes | How did your division justify measuring individual physicians performance and was there criticism of his? | Victoria Division iansbekker@gmail.com |
| Evaluation frameworks/data sources | Examples of evaluation frameworks. Data sources, ex: is anyone getting data directly from their HA and/or MoH? | Comox Division ljennings@divisionsbc.ca |
| Scheduling meaningful medication reviews | Approaches to scheduling meaningful medication reviews. Currently working on a new process around this and are interested to hear more about what others are doing | Comox Division ljennings@divisionsbc.ca |
| Improved admission acute to residential care | Changes anyone has made to improve admissions from acute to residential care and back if needed. | Comox Division ljennings@divisionsbc.ca |
| Care plan goals | How to make care plan goals clear and accessible for physicians and facility staff. | Comox Division ljennings@divisionsbc.ca |
