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High-level health care briefing in Toronto Monday |
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A high-level briefing and summit on retirement homes and alternate level of care (ALC) will be held Monday (June 20) at Lillian H. Smith Public Library, 239 College St., Toronto. The event is sponsored by the Alliance of Seniors/Older Canadians Network, Older Women's Network, and the Ontario Health Coalition. The meeting begins with registration at 9 a.m. (sliding scale $0 to $10), followed by the high-level briefing at 10 a.m. Speakers include the following: Judith Wahl Issues: hospital discharge, the right to chronic care and the new retirement homes regulations. Wahl, barrister and solicitor, has been the executive director and senior lawyer at the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE) since 1984. ACE is a community legal service for low income seniors that focuses on legal issues that have a greater impact on the older population. She is a member of the Guardianship Advisory Committee, Office of the Ontario Public Guardian and Trustee; the Alzheimers' Roundtable, Ministry of Citizenship, Ontario Seniors Secretariat; the Long-Term Care Facility Standards & Criteria Stakeholder Committee, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care; the Compliance Monitoring and Risk Advisory Group, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long- Term Care; the Canadian Bar Association; the Ontario Bar Association; and the Canadian Association of Gerontology. Wahl has organized and taught numerous public legal education programs to social workers, health practitioners, and other social service providers on legal issues that arise in their day to day work with seniors, including Advance Care Planning - Physicians' Training Ontario College of Family Physicians and Alzheimer Society of Ontario; Gerontology Program at McMaster University, Faculty of Social Sciences; the Diversity Training Course at C.O. Bick Police College; as well as Continuing Legal Education Programs for the Law Society of Upper Canada, Ontario Bar Association, the former Canadian Bar Association – Ontario, and the Canadian Bar Association National. All of these programs have focused on law and aging issues, such as Mental Capacity, Guardianship, and Substitute Decision- Making; Elder Abuse; and Patients' Rights/Long Term Care Issues; and Aging Issues and Law Reform. Natalie Mehra Rationing of access to chronic care and longer-term care, what is ALC and what are the claims about it, how retirement homes fit into this picture? Mehra is director of the Ontario Health Coalition – an organization encompassing more than 70 local chapters and more than 400 organizations across Ontario. She has spent the last decade building the health coalition into the largest and broadest public interest group on health care in Ontario. She has been a board member for a number of human rights, arts, health, advocacy, disability, and women’s organizations, and currently sits on the board of the Canadian Health Coalition. Prior to joining the Health Coalition, she served as the executive director of the Epilepsy Association in Kingston and Brockville. Mehra has extensive experience as a community organizer dedicated to building and co-ordinating democratic citizens’ engagement in issues related to poverty and equality, human rights, social justice and health. She has authored numerous published reports, essays and articles on various sectors and issues in our public health system, on non-profit governance, on poverty, disability, health and politics; and she has spearheaded several national campaigns to protect the public health care system from privatization.
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 Katha Fortier Case study Windsor – the movement of hospital patients into retirement homes, the Windsor experience re: levels of care and public accountability. Fortier is the director of health care for the Canadian Auto Workers. She is an RPN who worked in a rural northern Ontario hospital for 20 years. She is the co-chairperson of the Windsor-Essex Health Coalition and serves on the board of directors for the Windsor-Essex Alzheimer Society. She has spearheaded several campaigns to improve conditions in long-term care and has long-term involvement and commitment to social justice issues. Doug Allan A review of the profile of patients in Ontario’s ALC beds, current policies re: ALC, implications across Ontario. Allan is a research representative for the Canadian Union of Public Employees where he has worked for 19 years. He has a Masters degree in Political Science from York University. He has worked in Ottawa, New Brunswick and Toronto. He currently focuses his research work on hospitals, home care and EMS. He is on the board of directors of the Ontario Health Coalition where he has served since 1999. He is the author of a health care blog titled “Leftwords”. Discussion will begin at 11 a.m., followed by a break for lunch, and then key concerns and next steps will be debated from 1-3 p.m. Working with the group at this point will be Erin Harris of the Older Women’s Network; Derrell Dular of the Alliance of Seniors/Older Canadians Network; Derek Chadwick of the Canadian Pensioners Concerned; Cathy Carroll of Service Employees International Union L.1 Canada; and Rick Janson of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. Please register with the Ontario Health Coalition at: ohc@sympatico.ca Scrolling stops when you move your mouse inside the scroll area. You can click on the ads for more
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