Quality Improvement Plan

The Excellent Care for All Act, 2010 (ECFAA) and other accountability agreements require all public hospitals, inter-disciplinary primary health care organizations, Home and Community Care organizations, and long-term care homes to create a QIP every year. Each organization is required to develop a plan that includes specific targets and actions that reflect Ontario’s health care improvement priorities and the quality issues that are locally relevant.QIP’s must be in place, publicly posted and submitted to Health Quality Ontario (HQO) each year. HQO is the provincial advisor on quality in health care.

QIP development must be informed by the following: mandatory and priority indicators established by the HQO, needs of patients, clients and residents, insight gleaned through the patient relations process, patient experience surveys and critical incidences, results and initiatives pertaining to employee and physician engagement, commitments outlined in Strategic Plans and Hospital Accountability Agreements and Ministry of Health priorities and Accreditation Canada standards and processes.

The Quality and Services Committee of the Board is responsible for the development of the QIPs at SAH.

SAH's Quality Improvement Plan

Quality Improvement Targets & Initiatives

Frequently Asked Questions - Quality Improvement Plan

The Sault Area Hospital Board of Directors and our Quality and Services Committee are responsible for overseeing the development of the Quality Improvement Plan.

The members of our Board and the Quality and Services Committee work closely with our team of health care professionals to determine areas where we are doing well and areas where we have room for improvement. From there, we set targets for the hospital, which are reflected in the plan.

Quality Improvement Plans are submitted to the Ontario Health Quality Council and posted publicly annually at the start of each fiscal year, April 1st.

Please visit www.ontario.ca/excellentcare for more information.