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OTF Resilient Communities Fund webinar Sep 29
Grants available to help teams rebuild and recover from the impacts of COVID-19:
Join us September 29, 12:00-12:30 p.m. to find out how your team can tap into these funds.
The Ontario government is investing $83 million through the Ontario Trillium Foundation to provide grants through this Resilient Communities Fund to help eligible non-profit organizations, including family health teams and primary care organizations, recover from COVID-19 and continue the delivery of vital programming in their communities.
In this webinar, Andrea Spencer and Jason Huehn from Optimus SBR will provide an overview of the Resilient Communities Fund application process and requirements, discuss how your organization can benefit from the fund, and provide strategic advice on how to maximize your probability of success in securing funding. The next submission deadline is December 2. Register here.
Reminder- Electronic Asthma Management System (eAMS) – tool demonstration, Sep. 15
Significant gaps persist in asthma care across Ontario. The Electronic Asthma Management System (eAMS) is an evidence-based clinical decision support system developed to improve your ability to deliver best care for patients with asthma. Find out more here.
IHP Sessions: six leads still needed
We still need volunteers to lead the popular break-out sessions at the AFHTO 2020 Conference for the following professions:
- Health promoters
- Nurse practitioners
- Physiotherapists
- Psychologists
- Nurses (RN/RPN)
- Administrative
- Physician assistants
If you’re interested, please contact Beth MacKinnon today. The lead will receive a $20 discount on their conference fee.
Breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening and FIT requisition update
As of August 25, 2020, LifeLabs will start accepting new fecal immunochemical test (FIT) requisitions for groups at higher risk of colorectal cancer:
- Average risk people over age 60 who have never been screened for colorectal cancer
- Average risk people with previous unsatisfactory FIT results
- Eligible average risk people awaiting organ transplant
LifeLabs will continue to send out a limited number of FIT kits per day to allow for a gradual resumption of services across the healthcare system. As such, primary care providers can begin sending in new FIT requisitions when seeing patients in one of the higher risk groups identified above.
To ensure a coordinated resumption of services, Ontario Health strongly encourages Regional Cancer Programs, primary care providers and endoscopists to work together to ensure appropriate follow-up of patients with abnormal FIT results.
Reminder regarding breast cancer and cervical screening
Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario) is recommending that routine breast and cervical screening tests be resumed in a gradual manner. For reference, a summary of Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario)’s guidance for resuming breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening is here.
Detailed tip sheets have been developed for healthcare providers to guide the resumption of these services, please email cancerinfo@ontariohealth.ca if you would like a copy.
If you have any questions about resuming cancer screening, please contact cancerinfo@ontariohealth.ca.
OMA pocket journal for contact tracing and more
Updates released within the last week include:
- Contact Tracing Pocket Journal – Ontario Medical Association, available in 21 languages, for those who can’t download the COVID Alert app
We continue to update several pages on our site with resources and news:
- Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates– the original page, with news and Ministry situation reports (please note that the Ministry Situation Reports on COVID-19 are posted daily so review them to better understand the provincial response)
- COVID-19 assessment centres in Ontario
- COVID-19 information for Patients, Caregivers and the Public
- Infection control resources and tools for primary care
- H+K Memos and Insight Notes on Government Press Releases
- Management and operations, human resources and COVID-19
- Mental health and wellness during COVID-19
- Providing Comprehensive Care During COVID-19
- Resources for Re-opening – NEW
- Virtual Care, Digital Health and COVID-19
Approaches to Health Care Consent, Advance Care Planning & Goals of Care Conversations, August 27- September 17, 2020
Four-part webinar series from Hospice Palliative Care Ontario for front line workers, health care/service providers and first responders. Find out more and register here.
ECHO Care Of The Elderly, Sep. 9 to Dec 16, 2020
Join CAMH on Wednesdays to brush up on your capacity to care for the frail and complex aging individuals.
Apply here.
Strengthening Families Together Virtual Series, Sept. 10- Oct. 1, 2020
Share this webinar series by IAmMentalHealth with any caregivers to those with schizophrenia or a psychosis related illness. Learn more here.
Osgoode Professional Development, Oct. 5, 2020 – Apr 28, 2021
AFHTO is partnering with York University’s OPD to provide members 10% off a variety of health law programs for professional development. For discount code and course offerings, click here.
AFHTO 2020 Conference, Oct. 8-9, 2020
Registration has opened for Tectonic shifts: rebuilding primary care in a new world, our 2020 virtual conference! Members receive a significant discount so contact your administrator for your member access code. Early bird deadline Oct. 1. Find out more here.
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