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  • Highlights from AFHTO’s Meeting with the Primary Health Care Branch (PHCB)- June 19, 2019

    Highlights from AFHTO’s Meeting with the Primary Health Care Branch (PHCB)

    This email was sent to EDs, Lead MDs/NPs and Board Chairs of AFHTO member organizations.

    The AFHTO Board had an opportunity to meet with the PHCB on June 19. Below is a synopsis of the discussion.

    1. Ontario Health Teams Implementation

    • Over 150 submissions were received in May from across Ontario. Timelines for the next round of applications will be announced in the coming weeks.
    • The ministry is currently reviewing self-assessments. All applicants will receive an update on the status of their applications in July 2019. Applicants identified to be in the best position to become an OHT will be asked to complete a full application. The first OHT candidates will be announced in Fall 2019.
    • The Primary Health Care Branch and the Negotiations Branch are involved in reviewing all applications to ensure the breadth of primary care is looked at, including the number of primary care providers involved, performance, governance and leadership, and rurality.

    AFHTO will be developing a suite of tools to support teams in OHT development and will be working with our partners in primary care, acute care, and home care to ensure we can support patients throughout the health care continuum. Are there tools or resources you have identified as high priority that you wish you had? Please let Bryn Hamilton know at bryn.hamilton@afhto.ca.

    2. Care Coordination

    • The transition of home and community care services to OHTs will enable home and community care services to be better integrated with a patient’s other care needs.
    • As OHTs are phased in, the ministry may also want to review interim options for the placement or employment of care coordination staff, including primary care settings. The ministry will need to consider labour relations; the capacity of primary care around the province to incorporate care coordination staff into their teams; the coverage of primary health care teams; and the future state of OHTs.
    • The ministry recognizes the importance of integration between home and community and primary care, including the ongoing work to better connect care coordinators in primary care settings through co-location. However, the work in this area is ongoing and a decision or approach has not yet been determined.

    What is happening in your region with regards to care coordination and care coordinators? If there is movement in ‘embedding’ care coordinators in your teams or if there are tools being developed, please let us know at info@afhto.ca.

    3. Interprofessional Primary Care Team Expansion

    • Beginning in 2017/18, $48.8M is being invested to support the creation/expansion of 58 interprofessional primary care teams. Timing of implementation is variable, but good progress is being made. All projects are on track to be implemented by Fall 2019.
    • Space challenges are creating longer implementation timelines for some groups.
    • There is some deviation from the original plans, as anticipated. It will be important for teams to update the service plan if plans deviate from what was originally proposed.

    AFHTO would like to hear from you! How are your IPCT plans progressing? Are there are any tools or resources that you need to meet your timelines? Please let Beth MacKinnon know about your expansion plans at beth.mackinnon@afhto.ca. AFHTO can look at supports where needed and can highlight success stories in our advocacy work.

    4. Annual Operating Plan

    • With all the changes happening in health care transformation, the AOP for this year has been delayed, but it can be expected soon.
    • As in previous years, the 2019-2020 Annual Operating Plan Submission Package continues to focus on integrated service delivery through partnerships and collaboration, increasing patient access, and quality improvement.
    • This year there will also be a focus on mental health and addictions, including questions on the provision of mental health services as the government rolls out its provincial psychotherapy clinical training program, which will be made available to providers in the coming months. More information on that will be shared once details are available.

    5. Budget Adjustments

    • Adjustments were made to 106 family health teams and all NPLCs based on a 3-year line-by-line budget analysis with teams that have chronically underspent (i.e., teams that have sent back money to the ministry each year).
    • Thank you to everyone that let us know how these adjustments are going to impact your teams and if there would be impact to frontline delivery of care. A letter articulating your concerns has been sent to the ministry, and we are awaiting a response.
    • For those teams who do believe the calculations are incorrect or are going to have a hard time managing within their new allocation, please contact your senior program consultant.
    • With your R&R attestation report back to the ministry, please note if your R&R funding will be underspent due to vacancies, individuals not yet at the top of their salary grid, etc. This will ensure the ministry is aware that those funds are earmarked for future use.

    We have heard that despite the budget adjustments there are some teams that may be underspent again this year (i.e., Q1 HR vacancies). The ministry is supportive of those funds being reallocated to AFHTO this fiscal year to help support the G&L Program, specifically as it relates to the development of tools and resources for OHTs. Want to be a project sponsor? Please contact Bryn Hamilton at bryn.hamilton@afhto.ca to learn more.

  • Bits & Pieces: member news, aging at home, palliative care & more

    Bits & Pieces: member news, aging at home, palliative care & more

    Your Weekly News & Updates

    In this Issue:  
    • Member news
    • Evidence of value- Healthcare Quarterly articles
    • Bright Lights confirmations sent
    • Primary care virtual community – 10 high impact actions
    • Strategies for managing chronic pain: moving beyond opioids
    • Call for Abstracts – Traumatic Brain Injury Conference, Feb. 7, 2020
    • Upcoming events including Considerations for Primary Care Teams as a Not-for-Profit Corporation and more

    Member news
    Marathon FHT: Marathon FHT celebrates community’s win on Ontario’s most-active list

    Windsor FHT: featured in the second report from the Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine and awarded grant to increase access to outpatient services for individual families affected by substance use.

    Evidence of value
    Two articles published by AFHTO members in Healthcare Quarterly’s April 2019 issue (full articles available to subscribers only):

    Lake cottage at sunset

    Bright Lights confirmations sent
    We hope you enjoyed the long weekend and the deadline extension. We sent confirmation to nomination contacts earlier today titled “AFHTO 2019 Conference: We Have Received Your Bright Lights Nomination”. Please check with your contact to ensure they received this email. If they haven’t received it in their inbox or junk mail, please email info@afhto.ca.

    Photos and/or videos are due Thursday, July 11 with the release form.

    And don’t forget to register for the AFHTO 2019 Conference since we announce the winners at the ceremony and not before!

    Primary care virtual community – 10 high impact actions
    Thank you to the attendees at the June 26 Primary Care Virtual Community Webinar on the U.K.’s 10 High Impact Actions. Dr. Robert Varnam, GP and Head of General Practice Development at the NHS England, delved into lessons learned in the UK to free up time to care, and create better joined-up care.

    If you missed the event, you can join now and receive updates and registration details for the next session, taking place on September 25, 2019.

    Strategies for managing chronic pain: moving beyond opioids
    The Opioid Clinical Primer’s fifth course, Strategies for Managing Chronic Pain: Moving beyond Opioids, has launched.  It’s a new certified continued professional development course on Machealth that helps health professionals in Ontario to best encourage collaboration with patients to use non-pharmacologic strategies to manage chronic non-cancer pain.
    This free course can be accessed online, anytime, at opioids.machealth.ca.

    Guelph FHT annual report
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    The Guelph Family Health Team 2018-2019 Annual Report is available to read online. Learn about the work they do to provide patient-guided quality focused care. Click here to view the full report.

     

     

     

     

    Call for Abstracts – Traumatic Brain Injury Conference, Feb. 7, 2020
    Submit your abstract to the TBI Conference held in February. Deadline for submissions are on September 20th. Learn more here.

    ECHO Liver: Liver Disease in Primary Care: Approach To Hepatitis C, July 11, 2019
    Join the ECHO Liver evening series as they hold a lecture based on real team and patient cases on Hepatitis C. Learn more here.

    Considerations for Primary Care Teams as a Not-for-Profit Corporation, July 17, 2019
    Join AFHTO & Grant Thornton LLP for their second webinar in the Financial Webinar Series. Register here.

    Save the Date – ECHO Ontario Conference, Jan. 31, 2020
    Stay tuned for the conference agenda and registration to open this Fall 2019. Learn more here.

    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!

  • Marathon FHT celebrates community’s win on Ontario’s most-active list

    CBC, Thunder Bay article published June 27, 2019

    By CBC News, CBC Thunder Bay

    Town on north shore of Lake Superior is regional winner in national active living challenge

    The Town of Marathon has been named Ontario’s most-active community in a national contest to get Canadians moving more and sitting less.

    The town of about 3,200 people, nestled on the north shore of Lake Superior, claims $20,000 as a regional winner in the 2019 ParticipACTION Community Better Challenge, which asked people to log their physical activity between May 31 and June 16.

    “We were able to accumulate over 1.8 million activity minutes,” said Michele Lajeunesse, community health promotion coordinator at the Marathon Family Health Team. “That’s equivalent to 32,000 hours, and 1,300 days of physical activity.”

    “We did all that in 17 days.”

    Individuals and groups — including schools and workplaces — could participate in the contest. In a media release, Participaction noted a number of events, including Game Day, the Marathon Annual School Pow Wow, and the Children’s Elementary School Road Race, all contributed to Marathon’s total.

    “I think it’s a real celebration of the way in which Marathon, and Biigtigong First Nation, one of our neighbouring First Nation communities, have really embraced movement and physical activity as part of how they take care of their health,” said Dr. Sarah Newbery, a family physician with the Marathon Family Health Team.

    Lajeunesse said the challenge also helped promote the physical activity opportunities available in Marathon.

    “These types of activities are available all-year long,” she said. “We just hope that this challenge, and that this recognition, is going to encourage our community members to continue pursuing activity as part of improving their health.”

    Two years to spend prize money
    Marathon now has one year to submit a proposal to ParticipACTION outlining how the money will be spent.  The prize money must be used within two years on projects that promote active living.

    “Our goal is really just to try to do something that’s going to have the most impact for the majority of our population,” Lajeunesse said. “So, in the next couple of weeks, we really look forward to working with our community members, and our community partners, as well, just to make a decision on how we can spend this $20,000.”

    Click here for the complete CBC News, Thunder Bay article.

     

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  • Windsor FHT awarded part of large grants for mental and oral health projects

    Windsor Star article published on June 27, 2019

    By Jennifer La Grassa,Windsor Star

     

    More than half a million dollars was given to several organizations across Windsor-Essex Thursday, from the Downtown Mission to the Residence for Young Men.

    The grants were awarded to support oral and mental health care programs that help vulnerable or marginalized groups.

    The WindsorEssex Community Foundation awarded eight local charities a total of $580,587 from Green Shield Canada’s Six 4 Six Community Granting Initiative — $50,000 of which was from the Honey Family Foundation — on Thursday morning. There were 15 total applicants, and about half received grants that ranged from $26,000 to $165,000.

     

    For the first time ever, they’ll offer these services to female or self-identified male youth. Weinberg said they anticipate 80 youth between the ages of 16 to 24 will join the program.

    Green Shield Canada, a national non-profit health and dental benefit provider, gave $6 million dollars to fund local programs in six cities across Canada: Windsor-Essex, Hamilton, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, and Northern Ontario.

    The full list of recipients, their grant totals and anticipated projects are as follows:

    • The Canadian Mental Health Association Windsor-Essex County Branch: $25,000. This will support their Building a more Mentally Healthy Community project that aims to deliver mental health education, training and awareness to at-risk populations and caregivers.
    • Windsor Residence for Young Men: $26,186. The Youth Independence program will use this grant to deliver guidance and skills training to aid in youth resiliency.
    • The Windsor Family Health Team: $40,880. The One Team Recovery project will use the grant to increase access to outpatient services for individual families affected by substance use.
    • South Essex Community Council: $40,920. The grant will support their Building Routes to Mental Wellness project that educates service providers, employers, immigrants and temporary foreign workers on early signs of mental health issues and resources for intervention. These materials will be provided in English, Arabic, Spanish and German.
    • Life After Fifty: $56,600. With this money, Life After Fifty will launch a one year Social Prescription pilot project that will prescribe physical and social activity to socially isolated seniors in order to improve their mental health.
    • Family Services Windsor-Essex: $61,000. This will support 1,060 hours of direct clinical intervention, training in psychological first aid and other wellness materials to the Mental Health & Wellbeing for Newcomers project for Windsor-Essex newcomers.
    • The United Church Downtown Mission Windsor: $165,000. This grant allows the Oral Health for All project to go mobile, providing dental services to people in the county that don’t have easy or affordable access.
    • The Multicultural Council of Windsor & Essex: $165,000. The grant will go towards their three-year Oral Health Navigator Project that hopes to provide education and health promotion opportunities to 600 newcomers and immigrants. Individuals and families will be connected to health resources in the community and educated on making healthy decisions.

    Click here to access the full Windsor Star article.

  • Windsor FHT featured in 2nd report from the Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine

    A healthy Ontario: Building a sustainable health care system

    Report released on June 25, 2019

    By Dr. Rueben Devlin, Chair, Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine

     

    Under Chapter 3: Ten recommendations to improve health care: Integration: Recommendations 1–3

    Innovation in Ontario

     

    Windsor Family Health Team

    The Windsor Family Health Team expanded their service delivery through a Team Care Centre (TCC) model, in partnership with the City Centre Community Health Centre. This model serves the rostered patients of 100–125 solo primary care practitioners in the Windsor area, or approximately 200,000 people.

    The TCC model provides solo primary care providers with an interdisciplinary team-based, patient–centred approach in mental health diagnosis, and treatment plans for individuals with mental health/addictions and complex care needs.  It also increases access to wrap–around services and programs to meet the health care needs of the community.

    The success of this model is seen through 100 community physicians providing over 1,000 referrals since September 2018. Patient outcomes have improved, patient satisfaction rates have increased and unnecessary visits to health care providers have reduced. Moreover, mental health patients have experienced enhanced quality of life, and benefitted from improved care coordination and navigation.

     

    Click here to view the complete report.

  • AFHTO Bright Lights Awards deadline extended to next Tuesday, July 2 at 10:00 AM

    AFHTO Bright Lights Awards deadline extended to next Tuesday, July 2 at 10:00 AM

    Cottage calling? We know.

    Revised due date to submit a Bright Lights nomination is Tuesday, July 2 at 10:00 AM

    Lake cottage at sunset

    Nominations are coming in fast and furious but so are the questions. Given the appetite for recognizing your team, colleagues and partners for the awesome work they do, we’re giving everyone a chance to submit a Bright Lights nomination by extending the deadline. Maybe you can even get to the cottage early.

    While there are six categories, we’d like to encourage members and partners to submit a nomination within the category “4. Patient and family-centred care”.

    Small, rural and Northern teams are encouraged to apply. You can watch this 2016 webinar or view the slides if you’ve never submitted a nomination before. There will also be special recognition for underrepresented teams.There will also be special recognition for underrepresented teams.

    For more information regarding eligibility please visit our site.

    To complete your nomination:

    Register for the Bright Lights awards ceremony at the AFHTO conference to see who the awards recipients are or to pick up your award! We announce the winners at the ceremony on September 19, 2019 and not before!

    If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us and we’ll be happy to assist.

  • Innovation in Ontario’s Family Health Teams: How Palliative and Coordinated Care Programs are Filling Service Gaps and Keeping Patients at Home

    Innovation in Ontario’s Family Health Teams: How Palliative and Coordinated Care Programs are Filling Service Gaps and Keeping Patients at Home 

    Article published in Healthcare Quarterly Today on June 25, 2019

    Authors:

    • Monica Aggarwal, University of Toronto; 
    • Helen Cluett, Prince Edward FHT;
    • Heather Campbell, Prince Edward FHT; 
    • Debbie Korzeniowski, Prince Edward FHT
    • Cindy Jones, Prince Edward FHT;
    • Lindsey O’Donnell, Couchiching FHT;
    • Kavita Mehta, AFHTO

     

    Abstract:

    Collaborative interprofessional primary care (PC) teams are widely seen as an essential attribute of high-performing PC systems (Aggarwal and Hutchinson 2012). Effective PC teams play a key role in the mobilization of healthcare resources and navigation of the health and social care system for their patients. In Ontario, the establishment of Family Health Teams has resulted in the implementation of unique programs that deliver services to palliative and elderly patients with a focus on keeping them at home and out of hospital. Case studies cited in this article highlight two innovative programs in Family Health Teams and provide perspectives on lessons for successful implementation.

     

    Click here for the full article on Longwoods.com (available to subscribers only) 

     

     

  • Aging at Home: A Portrait of Home-Based Primary Care across Canada

    Aging at Home: A Portrait of Home-Based Primary Care across Canada

    Article published in Healthcare Quarterly  in April 2019

    Authors:

    • Sabrina Akhtar, University of Toronto
    • Mayura Loganathan, Mount Sinai FHT
    • Mark Nowaczynski,University of Toronto
    • Samir Sinha,University of Toronto, UHN
    • Amanda Condon, ACCESS River East
    • Vivian Ewa, University of Calgary
    • John C. Kirk, Southlake Academic FHT
    • Thuy-Nga Pham, South East Toronto FHT

     

    Abstract:

    Older adults and their families often struggle in navigating an increasingly fragmented healthcare system when it becomes increasingly difficult to receive care beyond their homes in the face of advanced illness, frailty and complex care needs. The provision of integrated home-based primary care has demonstrated improved patient and caregiver experiences and reduced healthcare costs when primary care providers collaborate in delivering care as part of larger interprofessional teams. In this trans-Canada portrait of five urban home-based primary care programs, their core features are highlighted to provide a roadmap on how to integrate this form of care into a Patient’s Medical Home in partnership with acute and home-care providers.

     

    Click here for the full article on Longwoods.com (available to subscribers only) 

     

     

  • AFHTO 2019 Conference: addressing the Premier’s Council recommendations

    AFHTO 2019 Conference: addressing the Premier’s Council recommendations

    Premier's council recommendations

     

    The Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine released its second interim report yesterday. “A Healthy Ontario: Building a Sustainable Health Care System” contains ten policy recommendations from the council to the government, intended to help the government stay on track as it works to improve the health care system.

    The third recommendation?

    “Support patients and providers at every step of a health care journey by ensuring effective primary care is the foundation of an integrated health care system.”

     

     

    The AFHTO 2019 Conference, “Health System Integration Built on the Foundation of Team-Based Primary Health Care”, addresses this and other recommendations with a focus on the patient medical home, exploring themes like:

    1. Access to care: improving access to team-based care
    2. Continuous care: ensuring seamless transitions for patients across the continuum of care
    3. Comprehensive team-based care
    4. Patient and family-centred care
    5. Community and social accountability
    6. Enabling high -performing primary health care

    REGISTER TODAY

     

    Featuring
    Dr. Rueben Devlin, Special Advisor and Chair of the Premier’s Council on Improving Health Care and Ending Hallway Medicine as Closing Plenary speaker

     

    Conference Highlights:

     

    Patients and students welcome! For general information, you can visit our conference page.  

    We look forward to seeing you at the AFHTO 2019 Conference!

  • Bits & Pieces: cabinet shuffle memo, Premier’s Council second report, primary care virtual community & more

    Bits & Pieces: cabinet shuffle memo, Premier’s Council second report, primary care virtual community & more

    Your Weekly News & Updates

    In this Issue:  
    • Ford government shuffles cabinet
    • Second interim report from the Premier’s Council released today
    • Reminder- primary care virtual community, June 26
    • AFHTO Board of Directors nominations deadline this Friday, June 28
    • Bright Lights nomination deadline this Friday, June 28
    • Mental health and addiction QI collaborative slides and video
    • A prescription for Canada: achieving pharmacare for all
    • Amy Coupal announced as new CEO at the Ontario Caregiver Organization
    • CEP tools and resources survey
    • Seeking input: draft quality standard for unhealthy alcohol use and alcohol use disorder
    • Upcoming events including ECHO Liver and more

    Premier shuffles cabinet
    Almost one year since the Executive Council was sworn-in, the Ford government has made the most significant shuffle of cabinet to date. This larger, 28-member cabinet includes some new faces, while promoting those who have performed well over the past year.

    As a direct response to some of the challenges in the first year, the government has bolstered capacity in their key priority areas by adding associate ministers to Health, Transportation and Energy. Added to Cabinet is an Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and a new Ministry of Long-Term Care.

    Get more insight on what this means from the Hill+Knowlton memo in our members-only section.

    Meet the new Cabinet here.

    Second interim report from the Premier’s Council released today
    The Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine released its second interim report today entitled “A Healthy Ontario: Building a Sustainable Health Care System.”
     
    This report contains ten policy recommendations intended to help the government improve the health care system. AFHTO is pleased to see that one recommendation is to ensure primary care is the foundation of an integrated health care system.

    More information is on our website.

    Reminder- primary care virtual community, June 26Change Foundation logo
    This is the second webinar held by AFHTO, OCFP and The Change Foundation. Join us for an interactive engagement with Dr. Robert Varnam, GP and Head of General Practice Development at NHS England, as he shares learnings on the 10 High Impact Actions.

    This sets the stage for us, as a virtual community to discuss, reflect and share the possibilities of what our own High Impact Actions in Ontario could be. Learn more here.

    AFHTO Board of Directors nominations deadline this Friday, June 28
    Help guide your association by 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. To apply:

    Bright Lights nomination deadline this Friday, June 28

    2018 Bright Lights winners at the awards ceremony
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    • Are you proud of what your team has accomplished?
    • Do you want your colleagues to be recognized for the amazing work they do?
    • Do you think it would be great to see your initiative spread across the province?

    Send in your nominations and supporting documents before the deadline, Friday, June 28.
    Four categories have education grants to help you strengthen your team’s development.
    Small, rural and Northern teams are encouraged to apply.

    Mental health and addiction QI collaborative slides and video
    mha and qi webinar june 2019

    On June 13 over 200 attendees joined CMHA, AMHO, and AFHTO for the first in a 4-part webinar series on community and primary care QI projects and initiatives with a focus on mental health and addiction. See the video and get the slides.

     

     

     

    A prescription for Canada: achieving pharmacare for all

    A new report released by Health Canada, the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare has recommended an expansive pharmacare regime that would replace existing public and private insurance plans with a single national framework. To learn more about their recommendations, please click here.

    Amy Coupal announced as new CEO at the Ontario Caregiver Organization
    Amy Coupal has been announced as Chief Executive Officer at the Ontario Caregiver Organization. The Ontario Caregiver Organization was created in the Spring of 2018 as an independent corporation that functions arms-length from government. Their goal is to ease the stress and burden that caregivers experience when caring for a loved one. Visit their site to learn more about OCO and about the new CEO, Amy Coupal.

    CEP tools and resources survey
    The Centre for Effective Practice (CEP) is seeking feedback from family physicians and primary care nurse practitioners about their tools and resources through a survey.

    This 8-minute survey will be open until July 2, 2019. Those who complete the survey will be eligible to enter a draw for a chance to win one of five Indigo gift cards.

    The feedback will help them better understand which clinical tools and resources providers are aware of, and how they may have been used in clinical practice. Responses will help inform the Knowledge Translation in Primary Care Initiative.

    Seeking input: draft quality standard for unhealthy alcohol use and alcohol use disorder
    Health Quality Ontario is developing a new quality standard to address unhealthy alcohol use and alcohol use disorder.

    Share your thoughts on this draft quality standard and its accompanying patient guide by June 27, 2019.

    The Power of Partnership: Reducing Hallway Health Care, Enhancing The Patient Experience, June 26, 2019
    This webinar focuses on how partnerships helped create better health outcomes during the growing demands around hospital services. Held by HQO, SE Health and Trillium Health Partners. Learn more here.

    Considerations for Primary Care Teams as a Not-for-Profit Corporation, July 17, 2019
    Join AFHTO & Grant Thornton LLP for their second webinar in the Financial Webinar Series. Register here.

    ECHO Liver: Liver Disease in Primary Care: Approach To Hepatitis C, July 11, 2019
    Join the ECHO Liver evening series as they hold a lecture based on real team and patient cases on Hepatitis C. Learn more here.

    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!

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    LeaderShift Conference Detailed Program Now Available
    We are now only three weeks away from the LeaderShift Conference on Thursday, July 11th, held at the BMO Institute for Learning. There are still limited spots available for this enriching one-day, learning event, where you’ll have the chance to:

    • Connect with leaders across our sector to ignite collaboration and build a more connected, integrated health care system.
    • Collaborate with your peers, discover new tools and build your confidence leading during times of change and uncertainty.
    • Transform the health care system by cultivating new partnerships, building effective coalitions and preparing for the future.

    Click here to see the detailed conference program and to register today!