Situated in London, the fastest growing city in the province, and 3rd fastest growing city in Canada, LHSC is the single acute care hospital for the local community. LHSC currently serves a total population of more than a million in Southwestern Ontario for specialty acute care.

Like many Academic Health Science Centres around the world, LHSC is playing an increased role in population health and equity. This session will focus on SDH risk informed methodologies currently being used at LHSC for volume forecasting:

• Defining social determinants of health (SDH) and why it matters within the context of master/capital planning
• The importance of a Population and Social Determinants of Health (SDH) informed approach to forecasting volumes within capital planning
• Examining SDH risk informed methodologies and how they are essential to ensuring equity deserving populations are meaningfully acknowledged with respect to future hospital capacity and infrastructure planning
• Analyses and mapping of SDH risk groups that evidence the greater concentration of need