Bits & Pieces: full OHT list now available, member news, conference deadlines & more

Your Weekly News & Updates

Full OHT List now available
The Ministry of Health has posted the full list of Ontario Health Teams online. A number of our teams are actively involved in the application and in development phase including two in development by members ESF NORD-ASKI and Huron Shores FHT.
 
The list can be used as a resource by any health service provider or organization to connect with an existing team that has already started the Ontario Health Team journey.

The updated list of teams led by or involving members is available on our site as well, with a link to a map created by the OMA.

A reminder to stay up to date on the health transformation currently underway by subscribing to the Connected Care Updates.

Member news
Mount Sinai Academic FHT – Mount Sinai Academic FHT prenatal services fit under Ontario’s plan to expand midwifery services

City of Kawartha Lakes FHT – City of Kawartha Lakes FHT celebrates grant for seniors’ play park in Fenelon Falls

Owen Sound FHT – Owen Sound FHT holds ‘Adulting’ focused seminar for youth

AFHTO 2019 Conference deadlines starting Aug. 9

August 9: Our referral program is only open until next Friday, August 9, 2019. All non-members have to do is say who recommended them during registration and the organization with the most referrals wins a complimentary registration! Please remind your partners and stakeholders to mention your team’s name! Non-members and members alike can win.

August 19: Book your hotel room before August 19. This ensures you get our group rate. After this date, rooms are released to the public. Prices start at $222/night. That’s more than $100 discount on current rates!

August 19: IHP Sessions– we still need leads for the Administrative and Social workers
individual sessions. If no leads are confirmed by August 19, we may have to cancel these sessions. All IHP session leads get a $50 discount on conference registration. Email us for more information.

September 4: Our early bird deadline to register for the AFHTO 2019 Conference, “Health System Integration Built on the Foundation of Team-Based Primary Health Care”

NEW Ontario follow-up care clinical guidance summaries for breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer survivors
Cancer Care Ontario is sharing the new provincial follow-up care clinical guidance summaries for breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers, now available on their website. The summaries are to serve as concise and user-friendly informational tools for primary care providers to support the delivery of evidence-based follow-up care to their patients. If you have any questions, please email the Transitions in Care Team at TransitionsInCare@CancerCare.on.ca.

Free workshop to develop support for patient-oriented research
Do you know any patient partners, policymakers, managers or researchers who would benefit from learning more about how patient-oriented research can improve the patient experience and patient outcomes? If so, McMaster Health Forum is asking you to encourage them to register for one of their two remaining free, online training sessions:

• Sept. 9 – Nov. 25, 2019 (sessions on Mondays and Thursdays, 2:30 – 3:30pm)
• Jan. 6 – Mar. 23, 2020 (sessions on Mondays and Thursdays, 12 – 1pm)

This is a limited opportunity for them to help bring a strong patient voice to both research and decision-making. Over 11 weeks, this virtual course will better prepare participants to support the conduct and use patient-oriented research in Ontario’s health system and become mentors to others looking to do the same.

Managing benzodiazepine use in older adults- tool available
The Centre for Effective Practice (CEP) has published a new clinical tool to support  the assessment and discussion of the use of benzodiazepines with older patients.

Developed as part of the Knowledge Translation in Primary Care initiative, the Managing Benzodiazepine Use in Older Adults tool focuses on the role of benzodiazepines in insomnia, anxiety disorders and panic disorder, with steps to support safely discontinuing, starting and continuing to prescribe benzodiazepines.

LeaderShift Conference
Read more about the LeaderShift Conference that was held on July 11, 2019 and how attendees were able to connect and collaborate with their peers, learning how they were part of the #shapetheshift movement currently underway in the province.

AFHTO 2019 Conference, September 19- 20, 2019
Members get 50% off registration; plus early bird rates are in effect! Get your member access code from your administrator and come explore Health System Integration Built on The Foundation of Team-Based Primary Health Care. Register now!

Understanding an evolving opioid crisis, August 8, 2019
HQO’s next Quality Rounds Ontario webinar. Find out more here.

COPD Workshop, August 26, 2019
The Lung Association’s – Ontario’s Provider Education Program will host a COPD Workshop in Mississauga and via OTN. Register here.

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada: Clinical Trials – What you Need to Know, August 6, 2019
This webcast will provide blood cancer patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals with an overview of clinical trials concepts and processes. Find out more here.