SEHC launches groundbreaking $1.5 million grants program
Toronto, ON, July 18 – As home and community care steps up to meet Canada’s health care priorities, Saint Elizabeth Health Care (SEHC) is investing $1.5 million to establish a knowledge institute and grants program to enable and seed fund knowledge generation and evidence-informed decision making within the sector.
“With home and community care, we have the opportunity to rewrite the rules and redefine the possibilities of health care, but only if we rethink the system and how it serves us now,” said Shirlee Sharkey, president and CEO. “This initiative is about bringing people together to generate new knowledge to improve health services, inform public policy, optimize resources and achieve transformative change.”
Housed within SEHC’s School of Thought in Markham, Ontario, the Care to Know Centre will promote effective linkage and exchange between research, policy and management stakeholders in order to challenge current thinking and best practices; identify gaps within existing knowledge; evolve new models for home care research; and suggest means for incorporating evidence into management and clinical decision-making.
Three of SEHC’s Board Members will provide leadership for the establishment of an expert advisory board. They include Ted Freedman, a retired health care executive and former president and CEO of Mount Sinai Hospital; Ron Yamada, founder and former executive vice-president of Global Markets for MDS Inc.; and Dr. Peter Jensen, a corporate leadership consultant who works in sport psychology with the Canadian Olympic Team. In addition, SEHC is looking to recruit a dynamic leader to operationalize and advance the centre and its mandate.
“Today, home care organizations are testing, stretching and reimagining what can happen when knowledge, technology and health care are put into people’s hands,” said Sharkey. “It is important for us to understand all that care can be to individuals, communities and the world in order to enable people with the knowledge and tools they need to take control of their health.”
Saint Elizabeth Health Care (SEHC) is a Canadian not-for-profit charitable organization that shares its talent and wisdom nationally and internationally through direct care and service, consultation, and education and e-learning to support the transformation of care for families, health organizations and communities. With nearly a century of experience and a dynamic talent team of 3,700, SEHC delivers three million home care visits annually and has been recognized as both one of the 50 Best Employers and Best Workplaces in Canada.
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mgallo@saintelizabeth.com
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