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The Steering Committee for the 2011-2013 Multi-Sector Service Accountability Agreements (M-SAA) has begun to meet. The M-SAA is a requirement under the Ministry-LHIN Accountability Agreement and the Local Health System Integration Act, 2006.

The LHIN Collaborative (LHINC) Council held its fifth meeting on July 9, 2010. This communiqué provides an overview of the key messages stemming from that meeting.

The following projects were discussed by LHINC Council: Priority Setting/Decision Making Process; Transition Management: “Home-First” Approach; Engagement of Public Health in LHIN Processes; Capacity Planning; LHINC Evaluation Framework.

Champlain Mental Health Network - Mental Health Promotion and Education Promotion Work Group

This network was created in 2008 as a subcommittee of the Champlain Mental Health Network. Based on a common understanding of mental health promotion and mental illness prevention, its goal is to promote and advocate for mental health programming in the Champlain LHIN.

Resource Matching and Referral (RM&R) is an electronic information and referral system that matches patients/clients to the earliest available services and care setting that best meets the individual needs of the client. In the Toronto Central LHIN, RM&R is now supporting e-referrals from 14 acute and rehab/complex continuing care hospitals to 39 long-term care homes and the Toronto Central CCAC.

The Integrated Assessment Record (IAR) pilot project in the Erie St. Clair and Central West LHINs, which launched in August 2009, continues to build momentum. The project is currently focused on community-based mental health organizations, but new partners include Westover Treatment Centre, Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital and Leamington District Memorial Hospital from the Erie St. Clair LHIN. Several other LHINS have expressed interest, and a provincial steering committee has been formed and is making progress in their oversight role, including the release of an RFP for IAR software.

The Community Care Information Management (CCIM) program’s HRIS project team at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has launched a new HRIS Quadrant Software Webinar for Community Mental Health and Addictions (CMH&A) and Community Support Services (CSS) organizations across the province.

The webinar reviews how to:

• implement the Quadrant (HR, Payroll, Scheduling and Self Service) software

• streamline back-office processes

• meet Ontario Healthcare Reporting Standards requirements

OMHAKEN is the Ontario Mental Health and Addictions Knowledge Exchange Network, a knowledge exchange network initially established to support the research of the System Enhancement Evaluation Initiative (SEEI).

OMHAKEN works to improve the quality of mental health and addictions services, supports, research and policy by linking and engaging providers, planners, researchers, decision-makers, policy-makers, consumers and families in knowledge creation and exchange across all levels of government and the health care system.

On October 27, 2009 the Central LHIN Board of Directors approved a voluntary integration request submitted by York Central Hospital and CMHA York Region. The result of the integration request is the transfer of funding and mandate from York Central Hospital to CMHA York Region to deliver employment support services in York Region and South Simcoe. CMHA will recruit three employment specialists for job development, job coaching, and information resources.

The Toronto Central LHIN has released its Integrated Health Service Plan for 2010-2013. The IHSP is oriented around five priorities: ER wait times, Alternate Level of Care (ALC), diabetes, mental health and addictions and value and affordability.

The North West LHIN has identified 11 priorities in its Integrated Health Services Plan (IHSP) for 2010-2013, organized across the three themes of ‘access to and integration of services’, ‘people of Northwestern Ontario’ and ‘Enablers’. Mental health and addictions is one of the identified priorities.

The IHSP outlines the LHIN’s objectives for mental health and addictions, to:

• Improve access to mental health and addictions services and make the system easier to navigate.
• Improve coordination of mental health and addictions services.