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Free training series on managing workplace stress
Content provided by CMHA
CMHA Ontario’s Your Health Space program invites you to a FREE training series on managing workplace stress in health care settings. This series is delivered through self-directed eLearning modules and live, virtual skill-building workshops and explores strategies to mitigate burnout in your workplace. This series:
- Runs from January 8th to March 31st, 2024.
- Is delivered over 12 weeks. It is broken down into three themed courses (4 weeks each) each comprising 2-3 training modules.
- Offers certificates of completion that you can add to your online profiles.
- Uses hybrid learning, combining self-directed online modules and (optional) trainer-led workshops.
- Is exclusively available to health care workers in Ontario.
To learn more, access the series’ schedule, and sign up, CLICK HERE.
In response to several requests, this series is returning for its third run – capacity is limited, so register now to secure your spot!
Greenshield essential medicines program information session Dec. 14
Content provided by Greenshield
GreenShield’s Essential Medicines Program – their newest Social Impact program offering prescription drug coverage at no cost for individuals between the ages of 25 to 64 living in Ontario who do not have access to private drug plans and are ineligible for public programs (with exception of the Trillium Drug Program). The Essential Medicines program provides ‘the working poor’ prescription drug plans with no drug costs, no deductibles or copays, and no shipping fees and covers up to $1000 of medications on our list of “essential medicines” per 12-month enrolment (patients can reapply every 12 months).
Join Zoom Meeting on Dec. 14 12 noon
Meeting ID: 846 519 6022
Passcode: 218280
Relevant Information
- Prescreen tool
- Application form
- Email: essentialmedicines@greenshield.ca
- Phone: 1-888-348-5188
NB: AFHTO does not endorse the program. This session is hosted by Greenshield and provided for information only.
News and updates including MAID deaths coded to the underlying condition for which it was requested and more
- Life expectancy decreases for a third year in a row – Statistics Canada, Nov. 27, 2023
- Pediatric patients hospitalized with eating disorders in ontario, canada, over time – JAMA Network Open, Dec. 4, 2023
- Vagus Nerve Dysfunction in the Post-COVID-19 Condition: a pilot cross sectional study – Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Nov. 18, 2023
- Repeated Omicron exposures override ancestral SARS-CoV-2 immune imprinting– Nature, Nov. 22, 2023
- Patient and Care Team Perspectives on Social Determinants of Health Screening in Primary Care – JAMA Network Open, Nov. 28, 2023
Perkopolis for holiday gifts
This is a reminder AFHTO members are eligible to sign up for free access to over 5000 perks through Perkopolis. Get discounts on shopping, attractions and more. We know you’re probably on top of your holiday shopping, but given cost of living issues, another source can’t hurt.
EDs, if your team doesn’t have access yet, please email info@afhto.ca.
Fantastic Opportunity to Take Over 1000 Patient Roster FHT/FHO Practice at Taddle Creek Family Health Team
Content provided by Dr. Sara Shaw
Family Doctor opening to take over a well-managed 1000 patient FHT/FHO practice with Taddle Creek Family Health Team. The practice is at Bay and College in a collegial office with a terrific team. There is generous support from 5 other family doctors, a pharmacist, NP, RN, a mental health team with social workers and a consulting psychiatrist, a dietician, and a full-time diabetes education program. There are regular clinical meetings to provide resources and learning opportunities to engage and support all team members. Family physicians offer some back up cross coverage for time off. The practice could be managed in 5-6 half days, quickly scaled up to a larger practice if desired, combined with other medical interests or raising a family. Please email sarahnaomishaw@gmail.com for more information.
Advancing Equitable Healthcare for People with Sickle Cell Disease, Dec. 7, 2023
Ontario Health is hosting a webinar for hospital leaders and administrators, emergency department clinicians, quality improvement and equity specialists, and clinical educators to consider adopting and implementing the Sickle Cell Disease Quality Standard. Register here.
Dementia and Intellectual Disability, Dec. 8, 2023
ECHO Ontario Adult Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Pop-Up. Register here.
“You Can’t Recruit Your Way Out of a Crisis”: Why Retention is Critical to Today’s Health Workforce Challenges in the Context of a Global Nursing Shortage, Dec. 12, 2023
A Longwoods Breakfast Series presentation. Register here.
Mindfulness for Leaders and Frontline Professionals in Health, Home Care, and Disability Support Services, Jan. 25- Feb. 29, 2023
Developed at the CAMH Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre