Health Based Allocation Model
Over the last three years, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has been involved in the development of a new management and allocation tool: The Health-Based Allocation Model (HBAM).
If you are interested in learning about the HBAM, please read the HBAM Backgrounder. For more detail, look through the Ministry's presentation entitled Methods meet Politics: Development and Implementation of a Health Based Resource Allocation Model for Ontario's Local Health Integration Networks. Of interest may also be the Wellsley Institute's commisioned research report entitled Health Equity and Ontario’s Health Based Allocation Model
Now that the first components of this made-in-Ontario model are nearing the implementation stage, the ministry is introducing the first edition of the HBAM Advisory Committee Communiqué. This one-page newsletter will be issued by the newly formed HBAM Advisory Committee on a bi-monthly basis. The Communiqué will inform health care stakeholders of the current status of the Committee's work and of upcoming HBAM-related issues under review. Since this joint Ministry/LHIN committee has been tasked with providing recommendation on all aspects of the HBAM model, this Communiqué will act as the primary source of HBAM information for all health related sectors.