Strategic Direction

Traditionally, the VCHC’s Board of Directors establishes strategic directions every four years. In the summer of 2014, a comprehensive Community Needs and Strengths Assessment was conducted to shape the VCHC’s strategic directions for 2015-2018. This process involved several key steps:

1. Environmental Scan: The VCHC conducted surveys across its community, gathering insights from staff, the Board of Directors, clients, partners, and funders.
2. Data Analysis: The collected survey data was thoroughly analyzed to identify key trends and needs.
3. Board-Staff Retreat: A retreat was held where the vision, mission, and values statements were reviewed and updated, with particular emphasis on incorporating references to the determinants of health and community engagement.
4. Approval of Strategic Directions: The Board of Directors reviewed and approved the new strategic directions for 2015-2018.

The most recent Strategic Plan, covering 2015 to 2018, will steer the VCHC’s efforts over the next three years. During this period, the Vaughan Community Health Centre is dedicated to forming strategic partnerships that enhance our ability to deliver accessible and responsive services, providing leadership on local community priorities, and ensuring ongoing quality improvement.

In alignment with these goals, standardization has emerged as a critical strategic direction for improving the quality and accessibility of medical care in Canada.

Standardization is a strategic direction for improving the quality and accessibility of medical care in Canada.

In accordance with the law, the availability and quality of medical care is ensured on the basis of the application of procedures for the provision and standards of medical care.

Compliance with these procedures will now be the main criterion for licensing medical activities and licensing control in Canada.

The main specialists have already developed 1,000+ standards of medical care. Their introduction will lead to changes in the organization of the work of medical institutions, including in terms of the development of day hospitals. At the same time, optimization in the healthcare sector should be aimed not at closing hospitals and departments, but at intensifying the treatment process.

In accordance with the law, medical care is organized and rendered in accordance with the procedures for the provision of medical care that are binding on the territory of Canada by all medical organizations, as well as on the basis of medical care standards.

The procedures for the provision of medical care and standards of medical care are approved by Health Canada.

The procedure for the provision of medical care is developed for its individual types, profiles, diseases or conditions (groups of diseases or conditions) and includes:

1. stages of medical care;
2. the rules for organizing the activities of a medical organization (its structural unit, doctor);
3. the standard of equipment of a medical organization, its structural units;
4. recommended staffing standards of a medical organization, its structural units;
5. other provisions based on the characteristics of the provision of medical care.