Community Rehab

Community Rehab

Community-based rehabilitative care models can enhance patient outcomes and improve patient flow and transitions as patients move through the system.

The RCA is working to enhance awareness of the role community-based rehabilitation plays in helping people return home and in enhancing or maintaining function. This work includes identifying opportunities to spread innovative, cost-effective models of rehabilitative care.

White Paper on Community-Based Rehabilitation
Community-Based Rehabilitation: Providing High-Value Care in the Community is a four-part white paper that explores the critical role that community-based rehabilitation plays in the Ontario health system.

To support the operationalization of this white paper, the RCA shared a briefing note including recommendations for action with the Ministry of Health and Ontario Health. The RCA has also developed a resource, available in English and French, to support Ontario Health Teams in integrating community-based rehab into their models of care: