NC is part of a new Niagara report from the Niagara Ontario Health Team with identifies health system pressures and sets priorities for coordinated action.
Planning for the Future: A Data-Informed Health System in Niagara is a comprehensive assessment of population health needs, service utilization, and system capacity designed to support coordinated, evidence-informed planning across the region with the goal of better-targeted care for Niagara residents.
The report establishes a baseline understanding of the region’s population health, service utilization and available resources to guide collective planning and investment over the next five to 10 years. It also highlights the interconnected pressures affecting residents and health care practitioners across the region, including population growth and aging, rising chronic disease and multimorbidity, persistent primary care unattachment, increasing mental health and substance use needs, growing demand for EMS, ongoing hospital capacity pressures (including alternate level of care), workforce challenges across sectors, and the downstream health impacts of housing instability.
NC Health Sciences Dean Sinead McElhone, who participated in the study, is quoted in the media release from March 6. View the media release here.
View full report here. Planning-for-the-Future-A-Data-Informed-Health-System-in-Niagara
