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Goals, Objectives, Strategies, and Results — Continued
Core Business: Services Delivered by Partners (continued).
| Goal 3: A Sustainable, Affordable Health Care
System |
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| Objective 1: Provide care
at the appropriate level in the appropriate setting
by shifting the mix of acute/institutional care to more
home/community care. |
Objective 2: Provide tailored care for key
segments of the population to better address their specific
health care needs and improve their quality of life. |
Objective 3: Keep
people as healthy as possible by preventing disease,
illness and disability and slowing the progression of
chronic illness to minimize suffering and reduce care
costs in the future. |
Objective 4: Manage within
the available budget while meeting the priority needs
of the population. |
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| Priority Strategy
12: Service Quality Enhancement: Ensure clinical
services are organized and delivered safely, cost-effectively
and at a high quality. |
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PS — Performance Measure 17: Patient
Safety performance measure.
A province-wide task group has been established to
review patient safety and develop guidelines, best
practices and performance measures to improve patient
safety. As part of this work, specific performance
measures for patient safety will be developed and
added to subsequent service plans to spotlight critical
areas of improvement.
Target 03/04: Establish Patient Safety Task
Force
Target 04/05: Develop performance targets
for selected patient safety indicators
Target 05/06: TBD
Target 06/07: TBD
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| Priority Strategy
13: Managing within Budget Allocation: Manage the
delivery of services within budget. |
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PS — Performance Measure 18: Spending
on administrative and support services by health authorities.
Managing administrative expenses helps ensure maximum
financial resources are directed to patient care.
Baseline: 2001/02 health authority expenditures
on administrative and support services
Target 04/05: At least 7% reduction in annual
expenditures for administrative and support services
(excluding Information Systems) from 2001/02 baseline
Target 05/06: Completed
Target 06/07: Completed
PS — Performance Measure 19:
Health authorities in a balanced budget position in
each fiscal year.
This measure is intended to ensure health authorities'
expenses do not exceed their revenues.
Target 02/03 – 03/04: Expenses
will not exceed revenues over these two fiscal years
combined
Target 04/05: Balanced budget for each health
authority
Target 05/06: Balanced budget for each health
authority
Target 06/07: Balanced budget for each health
authority
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