Improving Equity in Access to Palliative Care

The new Frontenac Lennox and Addington Ontario Health Team for our region has established palliative care of one of its priorities and formed a Palliative Care Partnership of stakeholders involved in providing palliative care across the FLA. The objective of this project is to improve access to palliative care for underserved and marginalized populations, especially the homeless and vulnerably housed. As an intern, I will provide quality improvement expertise, project organization, and research implementation following the Ontario Health Teams Quality Improvement Plan. Both qualitative and quantitative methods will be used for data collection, including The Ontario Palliative Care Network Care “Caregiver Voice” survey and focus groups. This project will ensure all interested parties, including key partners, supervisors, the intern, and patients, have equal voice in the project execution. This project will work to better understand and address the barriers to providing palliative care, especially for disadvantaged groups (i.e., vulnerably housed, and homeless).

Faculty Supervisor:

Rylan Egan

Student:

Partner:

Kingston Community Health Centres

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Queen's University

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