SCI Quality Care Consortium
@sciieqcc
The Consortium brings together academic health science centres to provide optimal and equitable health care services for all Ontarians with spinal cord injury
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08-10-2019 17:55:50
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Join Matheus Wiest, Judith Gargaro, Cathy Craven, & Farnoosh Farahani this Thurs, Nov. 23 at 1:30-2:30 in Workshop 7A, Rm 200A at the #SCI Conference to learn more about some of the current inequities & gaps in #SCI care, particularly related to mobility, aging, & mental health
The 10th national Canadian Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Assoc. conference is this week! Make sure to check out the impactful and award-winning work presented by our #SCI Consortium members covering: ✨Lessons learned from SCIIEQCC ✨Pressure injury prevention ✨Cardiometabolic health ✨Needs of marginalized groups
Another day Canadian Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Assoc., another award-winning poster: "Exploring how bowel management post-rehab discharge influences quality of life when living with a traumatic spinal cord injury" by Shajaky Parameswaran, Thomas P. Walden, Louise Brisbois Cathy Craven Check it out now at 11:30am!
✨🎇Happy New Year everyone! Check out #ConsortiumWrapped for a few of our major highlights from 2023! youtube.com/watch?v=q-j3iH… SCI Quality Care Consortium Praxis Spinal Cord Institute Ontario Ministry of Health Cathy Craven St. Joseph's Health Care London
‼️October 2023 Network Meeting Recap‼️ We: 🌐 Welcomed 2 new sites to our network StJosephsCareGroup & NL Health Services 👥 Announced a Patient Advisory Panel composed of 11 people with lived experience 💻NEXT Consortium Network Meeting January 17 2024
Early treatment of emotional wellbeing is important for patients in spinal cord injury rehab. SCI Quality Care Consortium worked to implement routine screenings for depression and anxiety at admission and discharge, helping to identify and manage those at risk.
SCI Quality Care Consortium is dedicated to equipping staff with the resources and training needed to support patients' emotional wellbeing (EWB). This year, 67% of staff reported having adequate skills for EWB service provision, an important increase from 44% last year.
SCI Quality Care Consortium aims to enable clinicians to have open discussions with people with #SpinalCordInjury about sexual health. Since 2020, we increased staff’s sexual health knowledge by 10% and provided access to a variety of online and in-person resources for continued learning.
To help facilitate sexual health discussions and education with patients, SCI Quality Care Consortium has developed updated sexual health materials that are now more gender inclusive, available in multiple languages, and feature new resources focusing on women’s health gaps.
Return to walking is a priority among people with #SpinalCordInjury. SCI Quality Care Consortium collected walking outcome assessments.This figure shows the increasing proportion of patients who improved enough with rehab to become independent in walking with/without a gait aid outside their home.
Wheelchair skills enable independence, community integration, and safety for patients with SCI/D. In 2023, SCI Quality Care Consortium's routine wheelchair skills assessments led to 5 hours of training for those at SWAT stage 2A and lower!
Did you know that a single pressure injury increases the mean cost of hospital length of stay by 9,580 CAD? SCI Quality Care Consortium promoted implementation of daily head-to-toe skin checks.
Pressure injuries impact the quality of life, morbidity and mortality of patients with #SpinalCordInjury. In 2023, SCI Quality Care Consortium reduced the rate of patients with open wounds at discharge to 24%, down from 29% in 2022.
SCI Quality Care Consortium has worked to align the methods and definitions of fever for patients with #SpinalCordInjury including those with inability to regulate core body temperature and a low baseline body temperature.
SCI Quality Care Consortium staff are deeply engaged in implementing best practices. Our tools also facilitate effective goal setting and evaluation of goal attainment before and after a therapeutic outing.
