We are excited to announce that Jocelyn Coltart-Lyons is the successful applicant for the Long-Term Care Access Coordinator position. Jocelyn has been employed as the Social Worker at Lions Prairie Manor since 2018. Prior to that she spent time working in Public Health, as well as in Home Care as a Case Coordinator.

We believe that Jocelyn’s background in Long Term Care as well as Home Care make her the ideal person for this new position. Jocelyn’s start date will be January 2nd, and she will be based out of the Southport Office.

Please join me in welcoming Jocelyn to the team.

We also wanted to take this opportunity to update everyone that the Modernization and Provincial Standardization of the Pathway to Long-Term Care work continues. As of November 27th, the formal panel committee that previously approved applications to LTC will no longer meet.

We want to take the opportunity to thank everyone on the panel committee for the excellent collaborative work that they have done to date to help ensure appropriate, client centered access to Long Term Care.

As we move forward the goal is to continue that work while also eliminating delays in PCH application review and approval. We hope to achieve this by implementing an in-time approval process. The Long-Term Care Access Coordinator will be responsible for completing this approval. In the interim as we work to onboard Jocelyn to this new role that approval will be completed by Kaleigh Babalola-Griffin, Manager, Health Services – Home Care and Kelly Kaleta, Director, Health Sevices – Home Care, Palliative Care & Seniors.

As a reminder the LTCapplication@southernhealth.ca email address serves as the single point of contact for all Long-Term Care applications and related documents (excluding community urgent).

Any questions about the changes can be directed to any of the working group members including Marianne Woods , Stephanie Srozsa , Kelly Kaleta , Debbie Harms

Submitted by: Stephanie Rozsa & Marianne Woods, Directors – Personal Care Homes – East/West
For information contact Marianne or Stephanie