The RCA has released updated rehabilitative care best practice recommendations for patients with hip fracture. The recommendations are contained in an addendum which is to be used in conjunction with Rehabilitative Care for Older Adults Living With/At Risk of Frailty: From Frailty to Resilience. The RCA’s original rehabilitative care best practices framework for patients with […]

On June 8th, the Rehabilitative Care Alliance (RCA) and Provincial Geriatrics Leadership Ontario (PGLO) hosted a 2nd implementation-focused webinar on their recently released best practice framework, Rehabilitative Care for Older Adults Living With/At Risk of Frailty: From Frailty to Resilience.  This one-hour webinar provided participants with: An understanding of the 4 key action items that […]

The Rehabilitative Care Alliance’s mandate has been renewed by Ontario Health and the RCA is moving forward on new initiatives for 2022/23. The renewal follows the success of the RCA’s 2019-2022 mandate, highlighted in a newly released summary report, Strengthening rehabilitative care: Supporting post-pandemic renewal. The 2022/23 initiatives will build on previous work, while responding […]

A new white paper from the RCA provides health system decision-makers with recommendations to support the spread of innovative and cost-effective models of rehabilitative care in primary care.  The paper is the final part of a four-part white paper, Community-Based Rehabilitation: Providing High-Value Rehabilitative Care in the Community, that explores the critical role that community-based […]

Providers continue to experience the demand for rehabilitation services for people with persistent symptoms following COVID-19. The RCA has developed the following resources to facilitate referrals to COVID-specific outpatient rehab programs: Standardized intake and communication pathway for COVID-19 outpatient rehab programs  – Pathway for referrals and communication with primary care, including a letter template for […]

The Rehabilitative Care Alliance (RCA) has developed guidance on how to evaluate virtual rehab programs at the implementation, service and patient/caregiver levels.  An informational webinar held on March 10th provided an overview of the RCA Considerations for the Evaluation of Virtual Rehabilitation and an illustration of using the RCA virtual rehab guidance framework to evaluate […]

The Rehabilitative Care Alliance (RCA) and Provincial Geriatrics Leadership Ontario (PGLO) hosted a webinar on February 23rd, on their recently released best practice framework, Rehabilitative Care for Older Adults Living With/At Risk of Frailty: From Frailty to Resilience. This one-hour webinar provided participants with: An understanding of why the framework is important now to older […]

The RCA has partnered with the Ontario Hospital Association to launch a new system performance dashboard in conjunction with the release of the RCA’s 2020/21 Rehabilitative Care System Performance Report. The new dashboard uses the Tableau platform to provide stakeholders with easy access to the reported data and the ability to customize how it is […]

The Rehab Care Alliance and Provincial Geriatrics Leadership Ontario have released a new best practice framework to guide rehabilitative care for older adults living with/at risk of frailty. Rehabilitative Care for Older Adults Living With/At Risk of Frailty: From Frailty to Resilience outlines best practices and the required components of rehabilitative care for older adults […]

The RCA has released a new guidance document for rehab providers to help them evaluate the efficacy and quality of virtual rehabilitation. As a result of the pandemic, many organizations are integrating virtual and hybrid models of rehabilitative care into their service delivery on a more permanent basis. Considerations for the Evaluation of Virtual Rehabilitation […]