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| AFHTO Letter to Minister Elliott “As one of your government’s goals is the promise to address the issue of hospital overcrowding and ending hallway medicine, creating a robust and well resourced primary health care system is a major solution to address this problem.” On July 10, 2018 AFHTO’s CEO sent a letter to Ontario’s new Minister of Health and Long-Term Care and Deputy Premier, the Honourable Christine Elliott. Extending our sincerest congratulations on her appointment, she expressed our desire to work with the government in improving healthcare for all Ontarians. She also invited her to our annual conference in October. Read more here.
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In this Issue: AFHTO Letter to Minister Elliott Transitions in Care Team Grants Deadline to nominate your team or colleague for the Bright Lights Awards this Friday. Superior FHT physician receives 2018 Dr. William Hutchinson Award July 25 deadline to apply for the AFHTO board of directors Building partnerships for good governance – tell us your story! How effective is your board? Find out for yourself. Enhancing uptake of systematic reviews Early Psychosis Intervention Ontario Network needs your feedback Upcoming events regarding relationship design and more |
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| Transitions in Care Team Grants The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) will launch team grants under the Transitions in Care (TiC) multi-Institute strategic initiative this summer. The grants “will offer pragmatic solutions to problems associated with transitions in care from a clinical, health care or health system perspective. The funding opportunity will use a partnerships approach where multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary research teams will identify ways to develop, implement, evaluate and/or scale and spread evidence into practice to optimize transitions in care outcomes within two or more of the TiC primary focus areas.” Complete details should be posted on ResearchNet by early August 2018. You can visit here for more details or call CIHR Contact Centre Toll Free: 1-888-603-4178 or email support@cihr-irsc.gc.ca |
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| Deadline to nominate your team or colleague for the Bright Lights Awards this Friday Send in your nominations and supporting documents before the deadline, this Friday, July 20. NEW– The “how to” category winner will also receive an education grant. This means 4 of the 7 categories now have education grants to help you strengthen your team’s development. Small, rural and Northern teams are encouraged to apply- there will be special recognition for underrepresented teams. |
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| Superior FHT physician receives 2018 Dr. William Hutchinson Award | |||
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Dr. Alan McLean, lead physician at Superior FHT and AFHTO board member is the 2018 Dr. William Hutchinson Award recipient. Granted by Sault Area Hospital, the award recognises distinguished contributors to health services in Sault Ste Marie and the District of Algoma. Congratulations Dr. McLean! | ||
| Building partnerships for good governance – tell us your story! AFHTO is developing a series of case studies identifying FHTs and NPLCs that have successfully undertaken a range of collaborative governance initiatives with other FHTs, NPLCs or health service providers. The purpose of this work is to support the members of AFHTO by providing a description and analysis of how and why boards are talking to other boards and the benefits achieved. Have an example to share…let AFHTO know! |
July 25 deadline to apply for the AFHTO board of directors The Governance Committee of AFHTO’s board invites anyone who works within an AFHTO member organization to apply to serve on the AFHTO board of directors. To apply:
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| How effective is your board? Find out for yourself. The GCE’s Board Self-Assessment Tool is an online, questionnaire that takes about 20 minutes to complete. GCE summarizes the results and formats them into an easy-to-read report to support governance improvement, board learning and enhance organizational performance. The 2018 assessment questionnaire will be available Sep. 3 to Dec. 3, 2018. AFHTO members are eligible to receive a reduced rate of $300 (a 35% savings!) – contact AFHTO if you want to take advantage of this offer! |
Enhancing uptake of systematic reviews Are you a health care manager or policy maker/analyst/advisor? Researchers at the Knowledge Translation Program at St. Michael’s Hospital are conducting a study to find out how research evidence from systematic reviews can be presented in a more accessible and user-friendly way for individuals working in health care management or policy.For more information about this study and how you can participate, please click here.
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| Early Psychosis Intervention Ontario Network needs your feedback The Early Psychosis Intervention Ontario Network (EPION) is seeking your feedback. To improve communication pathways between primary care and early psychosis programs throughout Ontario, EPION has developed a simple correspondence template for early psychosis programs to share concise, timely information with primary care about mutual clients. What is included in this template is based on information gathered from primary care providers during a province-wide survey in November 2017. They hope to know if this would be useful for you as primary care providers and seek any ways they can improve it. They aim to have this simple tool available to EPI programs throughout the province by Fall 2018. Please provide your feedback to the forms by August 6 to Brian Cooper (cooperb@stjoes.ca). See the template documents here and here. |
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| MED SAFETY EXCHANGE Webinar Series, July 25, 2018 Complimentary bi-monthly 50-minute webinars hosted by Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada. Learn more here. |
OntarioMD EMR: Every Step Conference, Sep. 27, 2018 Early bird registration ends July 30, 2018. Learn more here. |
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| AFHTO 2018 Conference, Oct. 24 -25, 2018 Members get 50% off registration for Relationship Design with Starfield in Mind. Have you gotten your code yet? Find out more. |
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