GBHS Strategic Plan 2011-16

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Strategic Plan Highlights

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Public Reporting

Grey Bruce Health Services, like other hospital organizations throughout Ontario, maintains a high level of transparency and accountability by ensuring hospital information is readily available to the public. Many of our public reporting initiatives are guided by our obligations as outlined within two provincial Acts - the Excellent Care for All Act, and the Broader Public Sector Accountability Act.

This section of our website has been developed to support our commitment to transparency, and provides easy access to public information such as the compensation contracts for members of our hospital executive team, our quarterly expense reports for executives, our annual Quality Improvement Plan, as well as links to several of our patient safety indicators.

This section also outlines the process for filing a request under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

For further information on other GBHS accountability initiatives, please email our Freedom of Information Officer: fippa@gbhs.on.ca

Broader Public Service Accountability Act

This provincial Act outlines the responsibilities for hospitals in making information available to the public. Some information, such as Executive contract information, is to be made available upon request. In keeping with our commitment to transparency, GBHS has pro-actively posted the information below.

Other information, such as the quarterly expense reports for our Executives and members of our Board of Directors, is required to be posted publically as part of our responsibilities under the Broader Public service Accountability Act.

Executive Contracts
Individual employment contracts for the senior leadership positions within GBHS can be accessed by clicking on the following links:

A chart that outlines all contracts in one document is also available.

President and CEO
Contract
Amendment

Chief of Staff (COS)
Stipend
Pay For Performance Requirements

Vice President, Clinical Services and Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)
Contract

Vice President, Finance and Support Services, Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Contract - June 4/08
Contract - Dec. 20/11

Chief Human Resources Officer
Contract

Chief Information Officer
Contract

Chief Quality Officer
Contract

Sr. Director, Clinical Support Services
Contract

Supporting Policies

Policy #III-400: President and CEO Compensation
Policy #VII-20: Executive Compensation Policy
Policy #IV-40: Corporate Education
Policy #VII-50: Employee Benefits
Policy #III-60: Travel and Expense Reimbursement
Policy #III-95: Travel and Expense Reimbursement for Physician Assistance

Quarterly Expense Reports for Executives

Expenses Policy

Expense Reports for April to September 2011 (all Executives and Board of Directors)

More information on the Broader Public Service Accountability Act is available on the Ministry of Health and Long-Term care website.

Excellent Care for All Act

This legislation is aimed at improving the patient experience by ensuring hospitals provide evidence-based health care. There are a number of obligations within this legislation, including that all hospitals have a Quality Improvement Plan, and ensuring that a certain portion of executive salary compensation is tied to achievement of targets outlined in the Plan.

More information on the Excellent Care for All Act is available on the Ministry of Health and Long-Term care website.

Quality Improvement Plan

Grey Bruce Health Services has a long standing commitment to improving quality and safety. Our leaders and staff work to identify and achieve key targets for quality and safety, such as reducing preventable deaths, infection rates and medication incidents, and improving wait times and patient satisfaction. Our Board Quality of Care Committee regularly reviews the hospital’s progress on meeting these targets, discusses how we are performing over time compared with best practice guidelines and other hospitals, and how we might improve. Grey Bruce Health Services has embedded quality improvement into our culture, with staff and physicians focused on continuous improvement within the context of our overall quality framework, patient flow and access, patient safety and patient satisfaction. Our legislated Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) is a subset of our broader corporate strategy for quality, and fulfills our obligations under the Excellent Care for All Act (ECFAA).

Quality Improvement Plan

Quality Improvement Targets and Initiatives

Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio

The Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio (HSMR) is an important new measure that can help support efforts to improve patient safety and quality of care. The HSMR compares the actual number of patient deaths in a hospital with the average Canadian hospital. It is a ratio of the actual deaths to expected deaths. An HSMR equal to 100 suggests that there is no difference between a local mortality rate and the average national experience. An HSMR greater or less than 100 suggests that a local mortality rate is higher or lower than the national experience respectively.

Fiscal Year (April 1st to March 31st) -
GBHS HSMR 2004/2005 - 97 2005/2006 - 101 2006/2007 - 111 2007/2008 - 101 2008/2009 - 98 2009/2010 - 94 - 2010/2011 - 96

For more information please visit: www.ontario.ca/patientsafety

Surgical Safety Checklist

The Safe Surgical Checklist developed by the World Health Organization covers the most common tasks and items that operating room teams carry out and has been shown to reduce rates of death and complications among patients. The Safe Surgical Checklist compliance indicators is a process measure, and refers to the percentage of surgeries in which the checklist was performed.

2010/2011 Fiscal Year (April 1st to March 31st) - Percentages Reported Quarterly

2011/2012 Fiscal Year (April 1st to March 31st) - Percentages Reported Quarterly