HQO review
“The College
recommends that the
program be managed
by a single entity
and have quality and
patient safety as its
focus.”
In 2010, the CPSO’s involvement expanded with the
development of the Out-ofHospital Premises Inspection
Program which was created
to regulate another subset of
facilities, namely, OHPs providing health services under specified types of
anesthesia and sedation. The College is wholly
responsible for this program, determining
through self-reported information which
facilities are OHPs, developing the standards
and tools for assessment, making decisions
about facility outcomes, enforcing these
outcomes, and posting these outcomes on our
public register. Currently, there are 273 OHPs
operating in Ontario.
From its experience in working with both
programs, the College proposes, that moving forward, a single regulatory framework
and program of oversight be developed. The
College recommends that the program be
managed by a single entity and have quality
and patient safety as its focus.
The College’s submission makes the point
that, from a conceptual and regulatory point
of view, there is no difference between IHFs
and OHPs. Although IHFs and OHPs are
currently treated as distinct categories of facilities, the College does not see any meaningful practical differences between them as it
bears on the delivery o