Mississauga Halton LHIN Aging at Home Strategy
On August 28th, 2007 the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care announced an investment of $702 million over three years for an Aging at Home Strategy. This Strategy is aimed at providing seniors and their families and caregivers with an integrated continuum of community-based services to enable them to stay healthy and live more independently in their homes. Please click on the links below to learn more about the Aging at Home Strategy both provincially and locally.
Call for Proposals – 2010/11 Aging at Home - CLOSED
Consistent with the role as the local health system manager, the Mississauga Halton Local Health Integration Network (MH LHIN) manages the local process for determining priorities, funding and monitoring implementation of local initiatives related to the Aging at Home (AAH) Strategy.
Over the first two years of the Strategy, the MH LHIN focused on addressing system challenges with respect to Alternate Level of Care (ALC) and Emergency Room (ER) congestion. This involved increasing capacity to meet seniors’ needs in their homes and communities, especially the elderly at risk. These investments ensured the appropriate level of care for residents across our communities – the right care, at the right time, in the right setting.
The MH LHIN is issuing a limited Call for Proposals in support of year three (April 1, 2010 – March 31, 2011) of its AAH Strategy. The following are the priority areas for consideration for this call:
- Supports for Daily Living
- Volunteer Visiting Hospice
- Continence care services for seniors living at home / community
- Admission Avoidance/ Timely Discharge Initiatives aimed at reducing inappropriate use of hospital beds and ER e.g. comprehensive wound care follow-up
- Outreach Programs
- Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
To learn more about the MH LHIN's 2010/11 AAH plan and the limited call for proposals, please refer to the documents below:
Timelines and Submission Process
Please complete the detailed proposal and budget templates available below.
- Submit a separate PROPOSAL and BUDGET for each service and/or program.
- All sections of the PROPOSAL and BUDGET templates must be completed in order for the application to be considered.
*These documents are in Microsoft Word or Excel format so they can be downloaded and completed electronically.
Deadline for submission of Proposals: Noon on Friday, November 20, 2009
Organizations that are interested in providing services or programs in the priority areas identified above are asked to submit a completed detailed proposal and budget templates to:
Nancy Dembinski [nancy.dembinski@lhins.on.ca]
Administrative Assistant
Mississauga Halton LHIN
905-337-7131 / 866-371-5446 ext.228
Eligibility
This Call for Proposal is open to all currently funded health service providers committed to transformation and building an integrated continuum of community-based services to enable seniors to stay healthy and live more independently in their homes and communities longer and to reduce pressures on health care system.
If you are not a health service provider, as a part of the LHIN’s ongoing integration agenda, the submission must include a partnership with an existing health service provider (List of Health Service Providers in the MH LHIN).
The following areas or requests for funding will not be considered in year three proposals:
- Proposal that do not address the outcomes of this request e.g. reduce ER and hospital bed utilization
- Single funding requests in excess of $1 million
- Funds for further planning
- Purely academic research
- Capital
- Large technology infrastructure (information technology or information management projects)
- New long-term care home beds
- Proposals submitted by a single organization with no collaboration or integration opportunities identified
Evaluation Criteria
Proposals must:
- Address the needs of “at risk” seniors (seniors at risk of experiencing a medical crisis and going to the ER and lingering in hospital awaiting a more suitable place or are inappropriately admitted to a LTCH or hospital because of insufficient community supports).
- Clearly articulate client/patient outcomes and how the proposed initiative will reduce ER treatment times; avert ER use and reduce ALC/hospital bed pressures
- Identify expected performance improvements grounded with suggested performance indicators and note data source(s).
- Focus funding on direct client/patient care and minimize administrative and overhead costs.
- Demonstrate significant partnerships in order to ensure service quality enhancement, optimal resource use, minimal duplication, improved access, and increased coordination.
- Be innovative i.e. impact of proposed initiative on generation, transfer, and/or application of new knowledge to solve health or health system problems and application of leading practices across the LHIN.
- Maximize and leverage existing resources within the organizations and across the MH LHIN
- Have a positive impact on health equity
All proposals will be screened to ensure:
- Compliance with relevant laws or regulation and contractual arrangements
- Proposed initiative meets the priority areas of consideration of 2010/11 Call for Proposals
- Readiness to implement initiative by April 1, 2010
Highlights of 2008/09 Investments
Past Events and Additional Information