To help support homes from the long-term care (LTC) and retirement home sector learn from each other strengthen pandemic preparedness, the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute launched LTC+: Acting on Pandemic Learning Together. As part of the program, teams delivering healthcare to older adults in congregate settings complete a Self-Assessment Tool. This self-assessment (non-exhaustive and non-validated) is a tool to help long-term care and retirement homes assess pandemic preparedness, inform outbreak response planning, and prepare for future waves of Covid-19.
The tool can help to identify strengths and areas for improvement to inform pandemic planning efforts ahead of future waves of Covid-19. It can be complementary to Covid-19-specific checklists that may be regionally or provincially available.
CFHI-CPSI Pandemic preparedness and response in long-term care. Self-assessment. Ottawa, Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement and Canadian Patient Safety Institute, 2021, 7 p.
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