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Calling all EDs and Admin Leads: nominate a partner or healthcare inspiration for an AFHTO Board award
For the first time ever, the AFHTO board invites all member EDs and Administrative Leads to help them select the recipient of a Board award. The Board award recognizes an individual (or a group) who is not an AFHTO member but has significantly contributed to the development and growth of team-based primary care within their…
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AFHTO Bright Lights Awards: just over a week left to nominate your team or colleague! New education grant!
Are you proud of what your team has accomplished? Do you want your colleagues to be recognized for the amazing work they do? Do you think it would be great to see your initiative spread across the province? If you’ve said yes to any of the above, submit a Bright Lights nomination! They’ve started to…
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D2D 5.0 Results for Exploratory Indicator: Recorded HbA1C Target
Through this exploratory indicator, teams were asked to report the percentage of patients with diabetes for whom there is an individual HbA1C target recorded in the EMR. Eight teams were able to share data this time; several more indicated that they are will be in a position to do so in the next iteration of…
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Bits & Pieces: free brain health course, member news, caregiver wish list and more
Your Weekly News & Updates Free summer course on Brain Health The Glendon Centre for Cognitive Health is seeking interpofessional health care providers to take the ‘Brain Health’ certificate pilot course August -13, 2018 at the York University, Glendon Campus in Toronto. The course is free-of-charge. Deadline to register is July 30, 2018. For more information, see these…
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AFHTO Letter to Minister Elliott
On July 10, 2018 AFHTO’s CEO sent this 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 also expressed our desire to work with the government in improving healthcare for all Ontarians. Excerpts include: “As one of your government’s…
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Data to Decisions eBulletin #77: Summer’s here and the time is right… for D2D!
Building a culture of improvement… together. Over the past four years, AFHTO members have built a solid foundation of performance measurement in primary care. Individual teams have been translating this growing strength into providing ever-better care. AFHTO’s board of directors recognizes that it’s now time to do this across the AFHTO membership. This will help…
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Bits & Pieces: new health minister announces changes to OHIP+, July nomination deadlines & more
Your Weekly News & Updates New health minister announces changes to OHIP+ The day after being sworn in as Minister of Health and Long-Term Care and Deputy Premier, Christine Elliott announced changes to the OHIP+ plan. Children, teens and young adults with private health benefits will bill those insurers first and the government second. Eligible…
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Team Profile
The Team Profile Indicators were introduced to in D2D 5.0 and 5.1, as part of a research study. Members’ answers to these questions have given AFHTO members some hints about enablers of quality that we can chase down. This is grounded in the “dimensions of teamwork” framework developed through an earlier study of FHTs by Dr. Brown and…
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Gain your biggest audience ever: submit a “Bright Lights” nomination!
Nominate your team, partnership or colleague for a Bright Lights Award and gain your biggest audience ever. The AFHTO 2018 Conference Awards ceremony will be held at lunchtime on October 24, 2018. This means it’s open to all attendees at the AFHTO 2018 Conference. That’s an audience about three times larger than past awards dinners.…
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Moving from a Culture of Measurement to a Culture of Improvement
Summary from the Board visioning exercise on the next level of D2D| May 30th, 2018 As an organization, AFHTO has led the primary care sector provincially over the last 4 years in the development of a culture of measurement across the membership, not only because of D2D but also through QIDSS support and good governance. There…