Capacity Planning
Introducing standardized planning for future need
The RCA's Capacity Planning Framework and methodology support a standardized approach to planning and organizing rehabilitative care at the provincial and regional level. This approach:
- provides health care planners and providers with a simplified model to address local rehabilitative care needs now and in the future
- incorporates patient input, population data and various models of care so that plans are efficient, cost-effective and evidence-informed
- supports equitable access to rehabilitative care across the province.
The RCA is helping regions across Ontario to use the standardized approach to planning for the hip fracture population and testing its use for other patient populations.
| Framework and Resources | |
| Capacity Planning Framework (March 2015) |
Framework outlines questions a rehab care system capacity plan must address in order to conduct a current state analysis, future state design, gap analysis and action plan. |
| Provides information on a number of conditions typically requiring rehabilitative care that can be used as a proxy for identifying unmet need. Is based on a review of current evidence and best practice guidelines, where available. | |