PREPARED BY:
Planning and Strategic Initiatives
DATE:
March 21, 2024
SUBJECT:
2023 Annual Service Plan: Annual and 4th Quarter Report
BACKGROUND/PURPOSE
In 2018, the Ontario Ministry of Health (MOH) introduced a new Annual Service Plan (ASP) that Health Units are required to submit each year. To ensure a single and integrated approach to evaluating progress on this requirement, the Planning and Strategic Initiatives (PSI) department worked with the Information Technology (IT) department to align our planning system with the provincial Ontario Public Health Standards requirements to provide quarterly progress reports on the plan.
DISCUSSION
2023 Annual Overview
72% of the WECHU’s external public-facing programming was completed as planned in 2023.
Several environmental factors led to adjustments throughout the year and affected completion rates of the plan. These factors included: The Provincial requirement to operate a local COVID-19 vaccination clinic; changes to the co-location partnership with the University of Windsor; and the revised Provincial funding formula that led to significant staffing and resource limitations during the 4th Quarter of 2023.
Q4 Intervention Work Plan Progress
Project Leads have submitted individual progress reports for work plans in their programs for Q4, 2023.
The 2023 Annual Service Plan – Q4 Recommendation Report indicates:
- For external client facing programs, there were 124 active plans with 84% being completed.
- For internal organizational programs, there are 38 active workplans with 63% being completed.
Annual Service Plan Development for 2024
Activities in the Intervention Work Plans (IWP) have begun and detailed reporting on their progress will be submitted to the Ministry of Health in April as directed.