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Bits & Pieces: election advocacy tools, member news, #Yesthisisnursing & more
Your Weekly News & Updates The provincial election starts tomorrow! This is our opportunity to advocate for team-based primary care in Ontario to all candidates, and to ask they commit to investing in it if elected. To do that, they need to hear from you and understand its local value. Advocacy tools will be on…
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Invitation to Participate: 2018 Canadian Benefits Strategy & Benchmarking Survey
Again this year, AFHTO has partnered with Gallagher to offer our AFHTO members the opportunity to participate in a national benefits strategy and benchmarking survey specifically for Canadian employers. Thank you to those organizations that participated in the 2017 survey. We trust you received your copy of the results. This complimentary survey will help us…
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Compensation Funding Webinar – Recruitment and Retention Initiative
Due to the sensitive nature of this information, this post is password protected. We ask that you treat all of the contents of this page, including the link to the video, as confidential information. On May 7, 2018, there was a webinar with ministry officials for a technical briefing on the 3-year roll-out of the…
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Increased access to primary care in Kapuskasing area
TimminsToday article published on May 4, 2018 TimminsToday staff NEWS RELEASE NORTH EAST LOCAL HEALTH INTEGRATION NETWORK People will have greater access to high-quality health care closer to home thanks to a new team of health care professionals coming to Kapuskasing and a new Indigenous Interprofessional Primary Care Team that will serve Indigenous Northerners. On…
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2018 Election Advocacy Tools: Every Community. Every Patient.
Ontario’s 42nd provincial election occurred on June 7, 2018, and a majority progressive conservative government was elected. Meeting with the MPP who has been (re)elected in your riding is always a great idea. A meeting is to increase awareness around the importance and value of FHTs and NPLCs, and to advocate for expansions and investments.…
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Province commits $1.2M in funding to expand Burlington FHT
Burlington Post article published May 3, 2018. Article in full pasted below. John Bkila, Burlington Post More health-care professionals are headed to Burlington, thanks to $1.2 million in provincial funding. Burlington MPP Eleanor McMahon made the announcement Wednesday, May 2 with the Burlington Family Health Team at the Halton McMaster Family Health Centre, located to…
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LeaderShift Webinars: Overviews of the Healthcare System and Advancing Primary Care
On April 19, April 26, and September 19, 2018, the OCSA hosted LeaderShift webinars, and AFHTO members were invited. LeaderShift is a leadership development project being led by the OCSA in partnership with AFHTO, the Alliance for Healthier Communities, and Addictions and Mental Health Ontario. These webinars focused on how to educate, understand and gain…
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LeaderShift Webinars – The Health Care Sytem and Health Care Reform
On April 19 and 26, 2018, LeaderShift webinars were hosted by the Ontario Community Support Association (OCSA). LeaderShift is a new leadership development project being led by the OCSA in partnership with AFHTO, the Association of Ontario Health Centres, and Addictions and Mental Health Ontario. These webinars focused on how to educate, understand and gain practical…
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AFHTO 2018 Conference: May the 4th be with you as we extend your deadline- now Monday at noon.
Revised due date to submit abstracts for concurrent sessions and posters is Monday, May 7 at 12:00 noon These past few weeks have been a busy period for AFHTO members. Given the demands on your time, we’ve responded by extending the deadline to submit abstracts for the AFHTO 2018 Conference “Relationship Design with Starfield in…
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Superior FHT weaving care for healthy, happy seniors
SooToday.com article published May 1, 2018. Article in full pasted below. Darren Taylor, SooToday.com Health TAPESTRY program, with a July start date, will aim to address elderly Superior Family Health Team patients health care needs before they worsen Beginning in July, a new program known as Health TAPESTRY will aim to help a group of…