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Cancer screening during the pandemic and onwards, June 21
In collaboration with our primary care partners and Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario), we will be hosting a webinar to further explore guidance for resuming breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening and share stories from teams that have already resumed cancer screening.
Objectives:
- To understand the guidance for resuming breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening resumption midst the many waves of the pandemic.
- To explore how to use data to understand and address health inequities in screening/tailoring service delivery as well as tools to improve screening rates.
- To learn from practices the creative approaches such as EMR queries, clinics and much more.
Reminder- COVID-19 Education with Daniel Warshafsky, Office of CMOH, June 9
This session with Dr. Daniel Warshafsky, Associate Medical Officer of Health at the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health will cover key questions, including variants of concern, AstraZeneca and mixing of vaccines, breakthrough cases and emerging evidence around vaccination for children 12-17 years old. Nicole Blackman, Provincial Director at the Indigenous Primary Health Care Council will talk about why Indigenous people are prioritized to receive vaccines. Register here.
Reminder- Update on the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program, June 10
The Ministry of Health has recently approved six health service providers to serve as new lead organizations of regional psychotherapy networks for the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy (OSP) Program, one of which is AFHTO member CarePoint Health.
The Mental Health and Addictions Centre of Excellence at Ontario Health would like to invite primary care organizations to a webinar on June 10 to learn more about the program’s background, the vision of OSP as a provincial program, and next steps with the expansion.
Member stories
Barrie and Community FHT- Barrie & Area launched their COVID@Home monitoring program
East Wellington FHT– Lions Club donates $4,000 to East Wellington Family Health Team
North Perth-North Huron FHT– North Perth Family Health Team, It Takes A Village start vaccine awareness partnership
STAR and Stratford FHTs– Perth County primary care providers partnered together to offer about 500 COVID-19 vaccine doses
AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD second dose Q&A, reports of myocarditis/pericarditis after vaccination and more
Recent updates include:
- AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD COVID-19 Vaccine Second Dose Q&A for Health Care Providers– Ministry of Health, June 4, 2021
- COVID-19 Vaccine Series Second Dose Eligibility Quick Reference– Ministry of Health, June 7, 2021
- COVID-19 Vaccine Information for Individuals who received a first dose of the AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD COVID-19 vaccine– Ministry of Health, updated June 4, 2021
- Communique to health practitioners -reports of myocarditis/pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination– Public Health Agency of Canada, June 3, 2021
- Management of Youth and Young Adult Mood Disorders (Anxiety and Depression) During COVID-19– CEP, June 2021
- COVID-19 CoP – Resource List – June 4 2021– OCFP, June 4, 2021
- 15 minutes for your mental health– booklet with healthy coping techniques and specifically mentions how to prevent burnout in the health-care field- CMHA Ontario, June 2021
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 Vaccination Information
- COVID-19 assessment centres in Ontario
- COVID-19 information for Patients, Caregivers and the Public
- Infection control resources and tools for primary care
- 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
- Virtual Care, Digital Health and COVID-19
You could have up to 22,619 pairs of eyes on your team’s initiative!
This week we’re asking for your teams’ stories on:
– COVID Vaccine education (myth-busting, Q&As, etc)
– Providing COVID-19 vaccines or supporting vaccine rollout beyond your team
Be sure to share before Tuesday, June 15th so we can feature it on AFHTO’s social media!
@AFHTO | info@afhto.ca| Webform submission
COVID@Home update
Per Ontario Health:
“If you monitored COVID+ patients in April and May please consider entering your data on that specific timeframe in our new easy to use DATA FORM. For those that have already done so thank you! For questions on this e -mail OH_COVIDatHome@ontariohealth.ca. We will use this information to show the value of primary care in such initiatives and for quality improvement purposes. Thank you for your continued participation in this initiative.”
Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology and GeriMedRisk: drug safety for older adults beyond “Start Low, Go Slow”, June 24
Co-hosted with GeriMedRisk, in this webinar, Dr. Ho will review the pharmacology of aging and its impact on adverse drug events among seniors. We’ll also explore tools and services for primary care providers to use to optimize drug safety. Register here.
COVID@Home Community of Practice, June 9 & 23, 2021
Learn how to monitor your COVID-19 patients in the community through this CoP.
Learn more here.
A Morning with the Lung Experts: What’s Trending in Primary Care? June 12, 2021
Join Dr. Tony D’Urzo and the Lung Health Foundation Experts as they explore emerging respiratory care issues.
Find out more here.
Applying an Equity Lens when Caring for your Population, June 17, 2021
This RISE OHT webinar will be based on a PHM approach, deep diving into co-designing care models for different priority populations.
Learn more here.
Primary Care Vaccination QI Support CoP, June 17 & July 8, 2021
Join PCPs, EDs & clinical managers from AFHTO, AHC & NPLCA to share learnings, tools and strategies to deliver COVID-19 vaccines in Ontario.
Find out more here.
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