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Members in the media
Windsor FHT: Team Care Centre opens doors to Windsor community, offers ‘upstream approach’ to patient care
Powassan and Area FHT: Powassan and Area FHT officially opens new home
Madawaska Valley FHT: Madawaska Valley opens family health team
Advocating for team-based care with your MPP
Tools and resources to help communicate the value of team-based care to your MPP are now online. As the new government undertakes health system and primary care reform, let’s show how team-based care aligns with their priorities.
Share your stories and the great work you’re doing every single day. And don’t forget to tweet (and tag @afhto) and send a picture to info@afhto.ca so we can share the amazing advocacy work happening across the province!
Transforming primary care for older Canadians living with frailty
In this interactive webinar, you’ll learn about an innovative research project that is currently underway across Canada. With the support of the Canadian Frailty Network, researchers, collaborators, health care providers and older adults are working together to develop a feasible and sustainable model that includes: consistent screening and assessment of frailty, improved patient engagement and shared decision making, and the use of technology to improve care coordination. The webinar will take place on Thursday, March 21 from 12:00-1:00pm EST.
Learn more and register for the event.
Ontario eConsult
The Ontario eConsult program, co-developed by Dr. Clare Liddy, The Ottawa Hospital Academic FHT, is designed to improve access to specialists. It’s being broadly rolled out across the province.
Family physicians and nurse practitioners can now access 78 different specialty groups including addiction medicine, genetics, chronic pain, and transgender care in addition to the more frequently requested services such as GI, cardiology, rheumatology, and neurology.
Primary care providers using the service are very enthusiastic especially as the response time is so quick-2 days on average- instead of waiting months for an appointment. Read the fact sheet to find out more.
Mediterranean Diet Toolkit
Developed by the Ontario Primary Health Care Action Group, the Mediterranean Diet Toolkit: Supporting Patients to Reduce CVD Risk and Improve Mental Health is designed to help primary care practitioners successfully implement the Mediterranean diet with their patients and clients. Special thanks to Michele MacDonald Werstuck, Lee Kapuscinski and Denis Tsang for their leadership and expertise in its development.
In the toolkit you’ll find:
- Validated Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Screening tools
- Patient resources such as handouts and menu plans
- Custom EMR templates for Telus Practice Solutions
- Key research articles
- Powerpoint presentation
And don’t forget, the revised Canada’s Food Guide was released last week.
Government Webcast Series: Strategic Planning and Public Complaints: Feb. 20, 2019
Attend this webcast on strategic planning and public complaints. Register now!
Building Together: How to become a high-performing team, Mar. 6 & 8, 2019
What makes a good team great? To find out, join us on March 6 in Ottawa and March 8 in Toronto. It’s free, interactive, and interprofessional! Register now for Ottawa and Toronto.
Considerations for Implementing the NP Role within your Team, Feb. 22, 2019
Join Beth Cowper-Fung, AFHTO’s President and Board Chair and Clinical Director of Georgina NPLC & Claudia Mariano, Manager, Practice and Policy, NPAO, for this interactive session. Register here
Leukemia 101- Training for oncology nurses and allied healthcare professionals, Feb. 6, 2019
Join this free webcast on Leukemia, hosted by the LLSC. Learn more here.
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