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COVID-19 vaccinations for kids under 5
To help the ministry with their planning on where children under 5 are or will be receiving vaccines, please take a moment and complete this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes. We thank you very much in advance as your answers will be helpful in determining how widespread the vaccines will be given. Deadline Monday, August 1.
Open letter to keep expanded access to care for uninsured people
In March 2020, in response to community advocacy, the Ford government temporarily expanded access to care for uninsured people, by: (1) removing the three-month waiting period for OHIP which affects new immigrants, new permanent residents, and returning Canadian citizens; and, (2) creating a new funding stream for physicians and hospitals for providing medically necessary services to uninsured people (see details here).
Healthcare for All Coalition has learned the government may be looking to imminently roll these changes back. They ask you to sign this open letter to urge the Ontario government to implement a permanent program to ensure universal access to healthcare services, independent of insurance status. Deadline Friday, July 29.
If you have any questions, please contact healthcare4allcoalition@gmail.com.
Minto Mapleton FHT meets with MPP
On July 22, Minto Mapleton FHT met with their MPP Matthew Rae.
“We all agreed that it felt really successful in educating him about how team based primary care is different from other sectors of the health care system. We gave many examples of how we are able to wrap around patients with members of the team to help them preventatively achieve good health and ultimately be most cost effective for the system.
Mr. Rae shared that being born, raised, and currently residing in this riding makes him aware of care however, today’s presentation elevated his knowledge especially surrounding recruitment, retention and expansion of our team to support our community currently and in the near future.
He also acknowledged that his riding is unique from other members of caucus in that his entire riding is FHT for primary care. (Minto Mapleton, Mount Forest, Listowel/North Perth, and Stratford). This is very different than his colleagues in the GTA who are not in this model and therefore have different priorities. We asked what he needed from us to allow him to advocate accordingly and he felt that collaborating with AFHTO would be a great first step as our representing association.”
If you are meeting with your MPPs and want AFHTO to connect, please let us know. Finding internal champions in government to help with advocacy efforts to expand team-based care is important as we ensure every Ontarian who needs it has access to team-based primary care.
Member stories
Couchiching FHT – Rec centre fees waived so students, patients can make waves
Guelph FHT – 2021-2022 annual report
Prince Edward FHT- County and Family Health Team welcome new physician recruiter
Summerville FHT- 2021-2022 annual report
New toolkit to help health care providers deliver virtual care to Canadians
Canada Health Infoway and Healthcare Excellence Canada have released a new virtual care toolkit to give care providers the tools they need to provide safe, high-quality virtual care to their patients, regardless of experience. Topics include the appropriate use of virtual care, use and optimization of virtual care services and quality and safe virtual care interactions. Information in the toolkit was refined and tested by 25 teams in 10 provinces and territories through the Virtual Care Together Design Collaborative.
Paid COVID sick days back until March 31, 2023, and more
Recent updates include:
- Vaccines for Under 5, Second Boosters, Monkeypox – AFHTO, July 25, 2022
- Paid COVID Sick Days (Total Of 3 Days) Are Back Until March 31, 2023– Maria McDonald, July 25, 2022
- Researchers find no difference in rate of childhood diabetes in Ontario during COVID-19 pandemic– ICES, July 25, 2022
We continue to update several pages on our site with resources and news:
- Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates– the original page, with news and updates
Reminder- nominations to the AFHTO Board of Directors open until July 29, 2022
Are you interested in serving on the AFHTO board of directors? The Governance Committee of AFHTO’s board invites anyone who works within an AFHTO member organization to apply. Please share this call for nominations with all who work in your team and with members on your Board. Find out more here.
Reminder- AFHTO 2022 Conference networking leads wanted
We have an hour in the schedule at the AFHTO 2022 conference for networking, and we’d like IHP session leads. Leads are responsible for programming while AFHTO staff will simply allocate the rooms. Smaller groups will be able to meet at a table in the ballroom. Limited space is available, so this is first come, first serve.
If you are interested in leading an IHP session, please contact Beth MacKinnon by July 29, 2022.
Reminder – apply to join AFHTO’s IHP Advisory Council!
Are you interested in advising AFHTO on the top issues facing IHPs in team-based primary care? Would you like to be a leader in working with IHPs in primary care to advocate for and to speak to the critical role of teams? Would you like to share and spread knowledge and learnings? If yes, please apply to join our IHP Advisory Council!
We invite any IHP in a member team to apply by completing this survey by Friday, July 29.
More information is here. Please share this opportunity with providers across teams.
Integrating Hepatitis C Care with Safer Supply Practice, July 28, 2022
Co-hosted by National Safer Supply Community of Practice and CATIE on World Hepatitis Day. Register here.
Demystifying the Cloud for Nonprofits, July 28, 2022
Hosted by TechSoup with presentation by Amazon Web Services. Register here.
ECHO Care of the Elderly, Sep. 7-Dec. 21, 2022
The latest cycle of the ECHO Care of the Elderly program focuses on Community care and providers. Find out more here.
NPAO 2022 Annual Conference, Sep. 22-23, 2022
This years’ Conference theme is The NP Experience: Pushing Boundaries Towards Common Goals. Find out more here.
AFHTO 2022 Conference, Oct. 12, 2022
Join your peers from across Ontario and beyond as we reconnect and reimagine, moving forward together.
Members get more than 50% off registration. Registration with your verification code here.
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