Baycrest

Baycrest: fulfilling a legacy of commitment and accomplishment For many, the aging of the global population presents overwhelming challenges. At Baycrest, we see unprecedented opportunities to dramatically redefine the potential for personal engagement, activity and fulfillment in later life. We also see an imperative to transform and vastly improve the care and support provided to current and future generations of older adults in our community and beyond. We have inherited a legacy of dreaming what might be possible and then creating it, of never settling for the status quo, and of sharing our work with all who can benefit. Having begun in 1918 as the first Jewish Home for the Aged, Baycrest has evolved into a comprehensive, integrated academic campus of clinical and residential care, serving an increasingly diverse community of nearly 2,500 older adults per day. Locally, Baycrest is a vitally important community asset, always ready to support the most vulnerable older adults among us. A source of great pride to generations of families that have been supporters, Baycrest is globally recognized for our innovations in seniors' care, our leadership in geriatrics education, and our transformative research that continues to advance the scientific understanding of how to maintain and strengthen the aging brain. During the last five years, Baycrest has proudly claimed several heralded accomplishments, including: • The Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest was ranked by an international panel of leading experts as the "highest impact" cognitive neurosciences program in the world in the area of human memory and aging. • Baycrest, with our "exemplary status" designation, was rated by Accreditation Canada as one of the highest performing healthcare organizations in the nation in the delivery of patient care, safety and corporate operations. • Baycrest assumed the inaugural leadership of the "Seniors Quality Leap Initiative", a consortium of 12 of the highest performing elder care organizations in Canada and the United States working together to improve quality outcomes across the sector while introducing promising innovations in long-term residential care. • Baycrest created an Innovation, Technology and Design Laboratory and a Centre for Brain Fitness to identify, test and bring to market new care approaches and supporting technologies that optimize the well-being of older adults. • Baycrest expanded its impact as a premier educational program in aging and seniors' care, by providing essential training to healthcare students and professionals across North America, Western Europe, the Middle East, South America, Australia and China. Over 1,100 students are trained on the Baycrest campus each year and many more through our global tele-education program. • The Government of Ontario officially designated our long-term care program as the "Baycrest Centre for Learning, Research and Innovation", acknowledging our role as a leader advancing the quality of nursing home care across the province. • Baycrest launched two spin-out companies, Baycrest Global Solutions and Cogniciti, to bring our expertise in the care of the older adult and our innovations in strengthening the aging brain to world markets. • Baycrest received the "Trend Maker of the Year Award" from Neurological Health Charities of Canada. Strategic Plan 2013 - 2018 4

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