Patient Declaration of Values

Lakeridge Health is committed to providing patients, clients, residents, and their family members or essential partners-in-care with a safe, high-quality care experience, and to continuously improve in order to achieve this goal.

Under the Government of Ontario’s Excellent Care for All Act, all hospitals in the province are required to have a Patient Declaration of Values in place that has been developed in consultation with the public and made accessible to the community. ​​Click here to read the Excellence Care for All Act.

What is a Patient Declaration of Values?​​

A Patient Declaration of Values is a list of values developed in partnership between the organization and patients, residents, clients, families, and essential partners-in-care. These values reflect what is most important to the community and care teams when receiving and providing care.​​

Lakeridge Health’s Guiding Principles of Partnership

​In 2019, Lakeridge Health formed a working group of Patient and Family Advisors and team members from across the organization to co-design the Guiding Principles of Partnership. The Guiding Principles of Partnership serves as Lakeridge Health’s Patient Declaration of Values and aligns with the organization’s commitment to Person- and Family-Centred Care.

Person- and Family-Centred Care is an approach to planning, delivering, and evaluating health care that is grounded in mutually beneficial partnerships among patients, clients, residents, families or essential partners-in-care, and the health-care team.

​As a result of this work, the Patient Declaration of Values was renamed: Lakeridge Health’s Guiding Principles of Partnership: A Commitment to Person and Family-Centred Care. ​​

Our Guiding Principles of Partnership closely align with the four core principles of Patient and Family-Centred Care as outlined by the Institute for Patient and Family-Centred Care:

• Dignity and Respect
• Information Sharing
• Collaboration
• Participation