BC’s Restructuring of Home and Community Care, 2001-2008
This major study finds that BC’s home and community health care system is in serious decline — the result of reduced access to services and poorly planned restructuring.
A related study, Innovations in Community Care: From Pilot Project to System Change, looks at successful case studies around BC that, if scaled up, offer cost-effective solutions.
Attachments
Uncertain Future: Appendix C – Beds: Municipal, Regional
Claims and Facts About Home and Community Health Care in BC
Briefing slides for media – An Uncertain Future for Seniors
An Uncertain Future for Seniors: BC’s Restructuring of Home and Community Health Care, 2001-2008 – SUMMARY
About the authors
Jeremy Tate
Jennifer Baumbusch
Marcy Cohen
Marcy Cohen is a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and an adjunct faculty member in Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She has co-authored a number of research and policy studies looking at public solutions to the current challenges in our health care system, including the 2007 CCPA publication Why Wait? Public Solutions to Cure Surgical Waitlists.