Creating a better world for older adults
Since its inception in 1918, Baycrest has challenged the traditional methods of delivering care and has remained dedicated to our society’s most vulnerable populations. With a passionate commitment to a world where every older adult enjoys a life of purpose, inspiration and fulfilment, we have risen as a leader in geriatric residential living, health, education and innovation.
Our Vision
A world where every older adult enjoys a life of purpose, inspiration and fulfilment.
GOAL #1
Provide an exceptional, person and family-centred residential and health care experience.
Goal #1 is to provide an exceptional, person and family-centred residential and health care experience. Throughout this past year, Baycrest has achieved many successes in this area through three key objectives, as highlighted below.
GOAL #2
Introduce innovative residential and health care delivery models for older adults and their families.
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Goal #2 is to introduce innovative residential and health care delivery models for older adults and their families.
GOAL #3
Advance as a leading research, education and innovation hub for the discovery, development and adoption of better approaches to optimize healthy aging.
Goal #3 is to advance as a leading research, education and innovation hub for the discovery, development and adoption of better approaches to optimize healthy aging.
GOAL #4
Be the commercial partner of choice for comprehensive, sustainable solutions for the
health and residential care of older adults.
Goal #4 is to be the commercial partner of choice for comprehensive, sustainable solutions for the health and residential care of older adults. The following are some recent achievements in this area.
Baycrest Values
Founded by the Jewish community and guided by the principles embedded within our faith, heritage and culture, Baycrest is committed to pursuing its mission and achieving its vision through compassion, advocacy, respect, innovation, and a sustained focus on achieving excellence. The achievements across Baycrest over the past year have demonstrated these values in action.
Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
As the pandemic has evolved, Baycrest has continued to be on the leading edge of infection prevention and control measures to help keep everyone on campus safe. We have also worked with our system partners locally, provincially and nationally to help reduce the spread.
Among others, Baycrest participates in and contributes to the Ministry of Long-Term Care’s Provincial Response & Recovery Advisory Committee, the Toronto Region COVID-19 Long-Term Care & Congregate Care Table, the Ontario Long-Term Care Association’s Pandemic Advisory Group, the Toronto Region Hospital Planning Table and Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.
The timeline below covers key points in the pandemic’s evolution and Baycrest’s ongoing response. It starts in June 2020, where the previous report left off.
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- June 17
- June 19
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- July 22
- July 31
- August 17
- September 4
- September 9
- September 28
- October 5
- October 10
- October 20
- October 25
- November 10
- November 30
- December 9
- December 15
- December 26
- December 29
- January 5
- January 8
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- January 16
- February 25
- March 11
- March 15
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- April 7
- May 17
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- May 19
- May 22
- June 9
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June 2, 2020
Building on our policy on continuous masking for client-facing staff , all staff, visitors and contractors must wear a Baycrest-issued mask at all times while in all common areas of the campus.
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June 3, 2020
Long-term care staff are required to get tested for COVID-19 every 14 days.
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June 5, 2020
The Virtual Well Wishes Portal is launched with messages of support for Baycrest patients, residents and staff from the community.
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June 17, 2020
An electronic self-screening tool for COVID-19 is introduced to speed up access for staff arriving on campus.
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June 19, 2020
Outdoor visits are announced. After several months of virtual visits, clients can now meet with their loved ones in person, physically distanced, wearing PPE.
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June 22, 2020
Toronto and Peel enter Stage 2 of the province’s three-stage recovery plan. Stage 2 allows for a gradual reopening of the economy, with outdoor dining services at bars and restaurants, shopping malls and outdoor recreation facilities, among other changes.
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July 22, 2020
Indoor visits resume with a restricted number of visitors.
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July 31, 2020
Toronto enters Stage 3 of the province’s recovery plan. This entails continuing to protect vulnerable populations while further loosening certain restrictions, for instance allowing more personal care services to operate and increasing outdoor and indoor gathering limits.
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August 17, 2020
The COVID-19 Surveillance Testing Centre opens in the Baycrest Marketplace, allowing staff to get tested on campus.
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September 4, 2020
It is announced that a small group of students will be allowed back on campus for the academic year.
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September 9, 2020
Following guidance from the Ministry of Long-Term Care, Baycrest begins working with residents and their substitute decision-makers to identify and register caregivers. This will allow residents to stay connected to their caregivers and loved ones even if general visitors are restricted or the building is in outbreak.
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September 28, 2020
Premier Ford announces that Ontario is entering the second wave of the pandemic.
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October 5, 2020
General visitors are no longer permitted on campus. Only caregivers, private companions and essential visitors have access.
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October 10, 2020
With cases of COVID-19 increasing in the community, Toronto and Peel enter a “modified Stage 2” as part of the province’s recovery plan, introducing some additional restrictions to control the spread of the virus.
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October 20, 2020
Universal eye protection is introduced on campus. Eye protection must be worn when within 2 meters or 6 feet of any client or any person who is not wearing a mask.
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October 25, 2020
Private companions and caregivers can now get tested for COVID-19 on campus every 14 days.
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November 10, 2020
As community transmission continues to rise, it is announced that Toronto will enter the “red zone” under Ontario’s recently introduced colour-coded system, which means stricter restrictions on businesses and gatherings
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November 30, 2020
Client-facing staff are now required to be tested for COVID-19 every 7 days.
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December 9, 2020
The first COVID-19 vaccine (Pfizer) is approved for use in Canada.
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December 15, 2020
The Ministry of Long-Term Care launches its COVID-19 Vaccination Pilot Program. Baycrest participates, with a limited number of client-facing staff having the opportunity to be vaccinated at Sunnybrook Hospital and Humber River Hospital.
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December 26, 2020
In response to the continued increase in community transmission, Ontario enters a “provincewide shutdown,” which will last for four weeks in the southern areas of the province.
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December 29, 2020
Baycrest registered caregivers become eligible to receive the vaccine as part of the Ministry of Long-Term Care’s COVID-19 Vaccination Pilot Program.
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January 5, 2021
The Ministry’s vaccination eligibility criteria expand to include Baycrest Hospital staff.
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January 8, 2021
The Baycrest Innovation Office launches a pilot called Technology Enablement for Older Adults (TEA), a course to improve tech literacy to help access services and reduce social isolation.
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January 9, 2021
Residents in the Apotex and the Terraces start to receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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January 12, 2021
Baycrest launches a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on site for client-facing staff.
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January 16, 2021
The Ontario government extends the window between the first and second dose of COVID-19 vaccinations to account for supply challenges.
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February 25, 2021
Supported by Baycrest, the North Toronto Ontario Health Team, the North York Health Partners and other health partners, COVID Vaccine Mobile Teams begin providing COVID-19 vaccines across 31 Toronto Community Housing buildings in the North Toronto area.
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March 11, 2021
This is the first National Day of Observance for Canadians Who Died of COVID-19.
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March 15, 2021
Ontario launches an online portal to book vaccine appointments at fixed community vaccination clinics.
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March 23, 2021
Baycrest, in partnership with North Toronto Ontario Health Team (NT-OHT), launches the Englemount-Lawrence Vaccination Clinic. As a proud member of the NT-OHT, Baycrest provides leadership and logistical support in running this clinic .
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March 24, 2021
Rapid antigen testing for COVID-19 begins at Baycrest, in addition to the PCR lab testing already offered on campus.
With the large proportion of Apotex residents and staff who have now been vaccinated against COVID-19, Baycrest announces a “gradual reopening plan,” which allows residents to go outside and to gather in small groups, among other changes . -
April 7, 2021
Amidst the third wave of the pandemic, the province of Ontario identifies a number of COVID-19 “hot spots,” including neighbourhoods in Toronto and the GTA, that have been hardest hit by the virus. It is a public health priority that people who live in these areas get vaccinated.
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May 17, 2021
It is announced that Baycrest has received five Leading Practice awards from Accreditation Canada. Among others, these awards recognize Baycrest’s exceptional practices in COVID-19 surveillance testing for patients with responsive behaviours, and the development of a novel virtual behavioural support model for responsive behaviours during COVID-19.
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May 18, 2021
Baycrest launches a new Vaccine Education and Choice Program to help staff navigate their COVID-19 vaccination decision.
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May 19, 2021
To accommodate additional COVID-19 testing for staff and caregivers, rapid testing at Baycrest expands to be available for over 21 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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May 22, 2021
Following guidance from the Ministry of Long-Term Care, scheduled outdoor visits resume for residents of the Apotex.
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June 9, 2021
Following the guidance of the Ministry of Long-Term Care, scheduled indoor visits resume for residents of the Apotex.
Leading Practice Awards from Accreditation Canada
Supporting Strategic Goals:
Baycrest has been awarded five Leading Practice designations by Accreditation Canada. The Accreditation Canada Leading Practice award is a special recognition of an exceptional achievement in healthcare. To be recognized as a Leading Practice, the practice must be innovative and creative, client and family-centred, evaluated, able to demonstrate intended results, sustainable and adaptable.
The five Leading Practice awards are:
Congratulations to the teams who worked on these leading practices for this outstanding achievement!
The Terraces of Baycrest Renovations
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Donor Impacts on Care
Research
Supporting Strategic Goals:
Research at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute (RRI) advances our understanding of the complexity of the human brain. With a primary focus on aging and brain health, RRI scientists and other researchers across the Baycrest campus promote effective care and improved quality of life of older adults, helping them enjoy all that life has to offer as they age.
Supporting Long-Term Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Virtual Education
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Possibilities by Baycrest™ Memory Care Model
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Work is underway to complete the design and to introduce Possibilities by Baycrest™, a new approach to delivering memory care. The model is being piloted through Baycrest@Home and will be adopted as the care approach for the new Terraces Memory Residence. This transformational approach is intended for residential living environments to support persons living with dementia and their caregivers. This new guided approach to programming and care delivery is geared towards optimizing brain health while recognizing the person and supporting them in the best possible aging journey, wherever one is at cognitively.
Possibilities by Baycrest™ is foundationally based on honouring the whole person and maximizing their potential throughout their cognitive health journey by facing the realities of living with dementia, understanding each individual’s abilities and then identifying their unique possibilities. It is about removing the fear that accompanies aging in the face of dementia by identifying a world of possibilities and recognizing that this is not the beginning of the end, but the start of a whole new beginning.
In launching this model, we will introduce new tools and approaches that are underpinned by research in neuroscience and evidence-based knowledge in addition to decades of clinical expertise in caring for older adults. The model leverages our partnerships with the Baycrest Rotman Research Institute, Centre for Aging and Brain Health (CABHI+), the Baycrest Centre for Education and the Baycrest Innovation Office (BIO).
Over the past year, the focus of work was to advance the development of the model and to pilot test components of the model through Baycrest@Home. In addition, planning for the adoption of the model in the new Terraces Memory Residence has been launched with the support of a Terraces Possibilities Implementation Team.
To support and enable the adoption of the model, work is underway to develop a change management approach, as well as a new education and capacity building experience. These will be utilized with staff, clients and families as part of orientation to the model, transitioning to the new model of care and for ongoing sustainable approaches to embedding the model into day to day practice.
A comprehensive evaluation of the model will be led through the Kunin-Lunenfeld Centre for Applied Research and Evaluation (KL-Care) at Baycrest. Results will help us to understand the impact of our new care approach on clients, families and staff, helping to inform growth of the model and delivery of care. This knowledge will not only change the way that care is provided through Baycrest, but also has the possibility to influence the delivery of memory care globally across residential settings.
Innovation Milestones
A look at key highlights of this past year’s road towards the development and adoption of better approaches to optimize healthy aging.
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April 2020
Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI) begins a series of focus groups with older adults about the COVID-19 pandemic, gathering real-time insights and sharing them with CABHI-supported companies – guiding innovators to pivot their existing solutions to the pandemic recovery quickly and effectively.
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June 2020
The new Baycrest@Home website goes live, offering a range of virtual and web-based social, recreational and educational programs for community-dwelling older adults with dementia, and support for their family care partners. Baycrest@Home draws on Baycrest’s expertise in aging and brain health as well as innovative technologies to help older adults age safely and well at home.
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July 2020
The Sam and Ida Ross Memory Clinic at Baycrest pilots the clinical implementation of the Cogniciti Brain Health Assessment.
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August 2020
CABHI’s Mentorship, Capital and Continuation program (MC2), presented in partnership with National Bank, launches MC2 Market Readiness – a first-of-its-kind collaboration with California-based accelerator Berkeley SkyDeck. The program mentors and connects Ontario healthtech companies to the Silicon Valley ecosystem, where they can scale and grow their businesses competitively.
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November 2020
CABHI launches Spark-ON, a new funding opportunity for Ontario-based frontline healthcare workers to develop solutions that benefit older adults, people living with dementia, and their care partners during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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December 2020
CABHI partners with the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canadian Patient Safety Institute, and health ecosystem partners across Canada to strengthen pandemic preparedness and response in long-term care through Implementation Science Teams.
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January 2021
Technology Enablement of Older Adults (TEA), a course developed and led by the Baycrest Innovation Office, offers a range of practical tech skills to help socially isolated seniors connect to virtual programs and services, health information, family and peers. The Education department’s Patient, Family and Consumer Education program helped develop the curriculum and deliver the 8-week course, which was funded by a COVID-19 Emergency Community Support Fund federal grant, administered by the United Way.
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February 2021
CABHI’s Mentorship, Capital and Continuation program (MC2), presented in partnership with National Bank, launches MC2 Capital, an investment program dedicated to supporting early-stage Canadian healthteach companies.
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March 2021
The Government of Ontario announces $23.5 million in funding over the next five years for CABHI.
CABHI partners with the Ontario Brain Institute to accelerate the translation of healthtech innovations in Ontario to address challenges around healthy aging and cognitive health, including dementia and other brain-related disorders.
The annual CABHI Summit 2021, Accelerating Innovation & Amplifying Impact, attracts 800+ thought leaders, innovators, investors, healthcare providers, researchers, older adults, visionaries, and companies from around the world. The 2-day global virtual event featured 90 speakers, 85 exhibitors, and 11+ hours of programming.
CABHI launches Leap, a new global community platform for older adults and caregivers. Cogniciti starts recruitment for a study to validate the French language version of its Brain Health Assessment expected to be available in 2022.
Enhancing Client and Family-Centred Care at Baycrest
Supporting Strategic Goals:
The Baycrest Client and Family Partner Panel (CFPP) works in collaboration with staff and care providers to offer the perspective of patients, residents and families on initiatives, programs, services and policies at Baycrest. The Partners play an essential role in enriching client and family experiences throughout Baycrest with their valuable perspective.
They provide their perspectives and offer views on a wide range of Baycrest’s initiatives, programs, services and policies. They also participate in a number of committees, such as Quality of Care Committee, Staff Recruitment Panels, and Emergency Preparedness.
Some of the many projects they were involved in this year included:
• Review and input into falls prevention materials and the new Health Information Portal.
• Input into a change to the approach for visitors during the pandemic and helping establish a visitation appeals panel.
• Development of a process related to opening a designated door for ambulatory clinics in support of pandemic restrictions.
• Input into the development of an onboarding package for patients and families invited to take part in a virtual consult.
• Review of proposed designs for new accessible washrooms on the second floors of the Hospital and Kimel buildings to meet contemporary accessibility standards.
• Involvement in a Day Treatment Centre Discharge project to improve the process for discharge summaries to referring partners and patients.
• Collaboration with staff in preparation for the Accreditation Canada survey.
• Participation in a working group for process improvement related to Medication Administration Record (MAR) in the Hospital.
Partner participation provides a valuable perspective in so many areas at Baycrest, helping to enhance the client and family centred care environment and experience.
Baycrest Foundation
The Baycrest Foundation, the fundraising arm of Baycrest, continues to enrich the lives of older adults by providing crucial funding in support of programs and services that promote excellence in care, research, education and innovation in aging.
(Events took place before COVID-19)
Impact of COVID-19
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Read MoreBy the Numbers
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Financials
Revenue by Organization
Sources of Revenue
Expenses by Organization
Expenses by Type
2020-21 Baycrest Foundation Financial Summary
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SOURCES OF FUNDRAISING REVENUE (Fiscal 2020/2021)
Areas Funded (Fiscal 2020/2021)
TOTAL ASSETS 2017-2021 ($ thousands)
FUNDRAISING REVENUE (2017-2021)($ thousands)
GRANTS (2017-2021)($ thousands)
2020-21 Baycrest Research Financial Summary
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2020/21 TOTAL RESEARCH SOURCE OF FUNDS
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TOTAL GRANTS & OTHER AGENCY FUNDING
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