Thursday, May 26, 2005

Ontario's mental health care evaluated (Canada) University of Toronto press release at EurekAlert - "For the first time, Ontario hospitals have common information to help assess the quality of in-patient mental health care, with the release of a new Hospital Report by the University of Toronto-based Hospital Report Research Collaborative. Hospital Report 2004: Mental Health is part of an ongoing series of reports on hospital care funded by the Ontario government and the Ontario Hospital Association. The researchers compiled the report after analysing data from a variety of sources. ... The report examines the overall performance of 11 psychiatric hospitals and 45 acute-care facilities in all five regions of Ontario: the north, the east, the Greater Toronto Area, the south and the southwest. In total, these facilities provide almost 1.5 million days of psychiatric care, about 25 per cent of the total days of hospital care provided in Ontario. The results are reported by region, not by individual hospital; the next mental health report in the series, slated for 2007, will provide performance data for individual hospitals. " See also the full report (Adobe Acrobat format, 14 pages).