When someone experiences a workplace injury or illness, we’re here to help them access the health care they need to recover and return to work. We take an integrated approach to health care that includes community and hospital-based assessment and treatment programs where people can get health care services for specific types of injuries.
Our health care programs are:
Community programs
Community mental health program
The community mental health program gives injured and ill people timely access to psychological assessment and evidence-based, outcome-focused treatment services. We collaborated with the Ontario Psychological Association to develop this program. The program provides a structured approach for service delivery in several phases, including intake/pre-authorization, assessment and treatment blocks, with corresponding reporting requirements, and with set reporting templates and blocked fee payments.
Programs of care
Programs of care are three stand-alone evidence-based health care programs that are available for most common musculoskeletal injuries and specific illnesses, such as mild traumatic brain injury.
Program for people with hearing loss
Our hearing services program is an evidence-based bundled services plan for people with noise-induced or traumatic hearing loss. The program includes comprehensive hearing services to reduce the impact of their hearing loss through hearing aids.
Hospital-based programs
Occupational health assessment program
The occupational health assessment program creates a clear and effective continuum of care for people and improves integration across all of our programs and services. It creates occupational health hubs across the province, providing assessment and case consult services for people with workplace injuries and illnesses, building on our existing partnerships with public hospitals across the province.
Our specialty programs provide fast access to expert specialists for people with work-related injuries or illnesses. These programs specialize in recovery and achieving a healthy and safe return to work by providing assessment and treatment of injuries that are more complex and illnesses, delivered through hospital partnerships.
Additional programs
Our drug benefit program pays the full cost for medication prescribed by physicians for work-related injury or illness. Through this program, we provide medications to treat workplace-related conditions, formulary drug listing decisions and a drug benefit formulary search tool.
The serious injury program supports people with a serious injury or permanent disability from a workplace injury or illness. Through this program, people receive specialized treatment, equipment and services to improve their quality of life.