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. Part 1: The Value of Community-Based Rehabilitation: An Overview introduces community-based rehabilitation and provides an overview of its value. Parts 2-4 provide examples of effective models of rehabilitative care and their outcomes, including virtual and hybrid models of care; recommendations to improve patient outcomes and support the spread of these models; an overview of key best practices; and a discussion of pandemic considerations. Part 2: In-Home Rehabilitation Part 3: Ambulatory Rehabilitation (Note: The RCA has now adopted the more inclusive language of “rehabilitation in outpatient/community clinics.”) Part 4: Rehabilitative Care in Primary Care 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: Realizing the Potential of Community-Based Rehabilitative Care Saisir le Potentiel des Soins de Réadaptation en Milieu Communautaire

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.

Part 1: The Value of Community-Based Rehabilitation: An Overview introduces community-based rehabilitation and provides an overview of its value.
Parts 2-4 provide examples of effective models of rehabilitative care and their outcomes, including virtual and hybrid models of care; recommendations to improve patient outcomes and support the spread of these models; an overview of key best practices; and a discussion of pandemic considerations.
- Part 2: In-Home Rehabilitation
- Part 3: Ambulatory Rehabilitation (Note: The RCA has now adopted the more inclusive language of “rehabilitation in outpatient/community clinics.”)
- Part 4: Rehabilitative Care in Primary Care

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: