That the Community Services Committee receive this report and this briefing on the
activities of the Ontario Breast Screening Program for information.

RECEIVED

2. Measles Immunization Update

That the Community Services Committee receive this report and this presentation
for information

. RECEIVED

3. Information on Community Care Access Centres

WHEREAS the provincial government has announced its intention to
create “Community Care Access Centres” to simplify access, reduce
duplication and improve care in the long-term care system; and

WHEREAS this proposal includes a plan to set up a five to seven-person
elected board to administer these access centres; and

WHEREAS the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton already
administers one of the key services (homecare) that would be run by this
new body and covers the same geographical area; and

WHEREAS the provincial government has announced it will incur
additional costs by negotiating agreements with regional governments
and public health units to finance the transition costs of transferring
homecare from them to the new CCAC’s.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Ottawa-Carleton Regional Council endorses
the government’s goal of cutting duplication and streamlining the long-
term care services; and

FURTHER THAT Council views as needless duplication and does not
support the creation of a new, special-purpose body to co-ordinate long-
term care services; and

FURTHER THAT Council recommends that, instead of creating a new
organization, the government assign the co-ordination function to
Ottawa-Carleton regional government, since the Region already
administers homecare, covers the same geographical area as the proposed
CCAC and is democratically accountable to the community; and

FURTHER THAT the government also investigate the possibility of other
regional governments and boards of health in Ontario fulfilling this
function, where it is appropriate; and

FURTHER THAT copies of this resolution be forwarded to the Minister
of Health, all local MPP’s, the Association of Municipalities of Ontario,
the regional section of AMO, the Association of Local Ontario Health
Agencies, the Ontario Home Care Programs Associations, other regional
governments and boards of health.

CARRIED AS AMENDED

INFORMATION PREVIOUSLY DISTRIBUTED

1996 Social Services Draft Estimates: Impact of Reductions to
Personal Income Contributions