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Redesigning Canadian Health Care for the Age of Complex Care. Queen’s Health Policy Change Conference Series May 16, 2014 Drs Tom Noseworthy & Tom Briggs. Better Quality, Better Outcomes, Better Value. Complex High Needs Populations. Alberta Health Services Costs Demographics Clusters
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Redesigning Canadian Health Care for the Age of Complex Care Queen’s Health Policy Change Conference Series May 16, 2014 Drs Tom Noseworthy & Tom Briggs
Better Quality, Better Outcomes, Better Value Complex High Needs Populations Alberta Health Services Costs Demographics Clusters Policy & practice considerations
The Goal Alberta to have a sustainable health system that creates the healthiest population and best health outcomes in Canada • One Health System: • 5 Zones • 4.2 million lives • 100,000 employees • 8,400 doctors • 13.4 B budget
Complex High Needs Populations • Population defined by costs attributed at patient level • $9.6B costs allocated • Top 5 % of population (total costs) identified • This populations consumes 66% of total costs • Health Service Areas examined for opportunities • Identified clusters using hierarchical cluster analyses • Clustering by demographics & chronic/episodic diseases
Total provincial CHN population 190,323 North 23,874 Calgary 65,091 Edmonton 59,575 South 16,417 Central 25,366 Percent female 57.5% Percent living alone 11.9% Provincial CHNP – Overall Demographics
Pop Frail Elderly 68,700 Complex Older Adults 60,202 Reproductive Health 36,495 Complex Infants/Toddlers 7,343 High Needs Young Adults 6,885 High Needs Children 6,365 High Needs Youth 4,333 High Level Cluster Overview
Provincial example – Frail Elderly Profile Average age is 77.5 years 54% female 14% living alone 9% in LTC Percent with dementia 15.5% Percent at end-of-life >19% Days in hospital per year 20.1 Average visits to family doctor per year 13.5/year
Hypertension 72.5% Acute Musculoskeletal Diagnosis 39.3% Acute Respiratory Diseases/COPD 33.7% / 22.6% Osteoarthritis 31.8% Diabetes 28.5% Congestive Heart Failure 20.8% Neuromuscular/Neurological Diagnoses 20.7% Depressive and/or Other Psychoses 20.2% Frail Elderly Clinical Profile (Partial) Note: Data shows averages based on physician visit billing
Bringing appropriate care to the community • Strengthen community and primary health care • Develop innovative service delivery models • Increase service integration and accountability
Policy & Practice Considerations • Use an evidence-informed approach • Identify, measure & understand complex needs clusters • Clusters influence what care, where, by whom, funded how? • Place of care & provider funding aligned to pathways/models • Defined structures & processes for clinically led change • Care pathways & models of care necessary but insufficient • Individualized care plans • This is not new money & requires reallocation from acute care to the community