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  • West Queen West FHT: Permanent Family Medicine Practice Opportunity

    Overview: The West Queen West Family Health Team (FHT) is a recently approved Wave 5 FHT currently in its physician recruitment and start-up phase. Located in one of the fastest growing neighbourhoods of Toronto, the FHT will service the community at large and incorporate a specialty focus on serving the primary care need of patients with mental health and addiction issues (approximately 25-30% of overall roster). The implementation of the West Queen West FHT is being sponsored by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Location: West Queen West Family Health Team (Queen St. W and Ossington Ave. area), Toronto Central LHIN. Position Description: Family Physicians in the Queen West Family Health Organization (FHO) will provide medical services to the West Queen West FHT and enjoy working in an interprofessional team. The FHT will adopt best practice in the provision of comprehensive primary care and strategically focus on chronic disease management, illness prevention and health promotion. Call Arrangements: Queen West FHO physicians will participate in an on-call rotation (potentially with other FHOs) and enjoy the benefits of a partnership with Telephone Health Advisory Service (THAS). Practice Hours: 9:00am-5:30pm, 3-5 days per week and occasional evenings until 8:00pm Patient Volume: Each FULL TIME family physician is expected to have approximately 1300 patients rostered to them. This is prorated based on full time equivalency. Compensation: Blended, FHO (Queen West FHO). Blended model typical of FHO arrangements. Income stabilization available to eligible physicians. Inpatient opportunities at CAMH available upon interest. Teaching Opportunity: Through an affiliation with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, residents will have an elective opportunity to rotate through this placement. With a goal of increasing the competency and confidence of medical trainees in working with patients with mental health and addictions the West Queen West FHT will serve an important role in building capacity throughout the system. Research Opportunity: Through a partnership with CAMH and affiliations with multiple institutions of higher education, research opportunities abound. Positions Available: 4 Vacation Details: As per eventual FHO Association Agreement, but typically 6 weeks per year. Successful Applicant must speak: English Contact Information: Cara Vaccarino at: cara_vaccarino@camh.net

  • Join the Office Practice Redesign Action Group to improve Access and Efficiency

    Apply by December 10 to join QIIP’s Office Practice Redesign Action Group. QIIP (Quality Improvement and Innovation Partnership) is a non-profit organization funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, focused on advancing improvement in primary healthcare in Ontario. QIIP is looking for approximately 100 motivated primary healthcare organizations including Family Health Teams (FHT), Community Health Centers (CHC), Nurse Practitioner Lead Clinics (NPLC) and solo or group practices to participate in the newest provincial wide quality improvement initiative by joining the Learning Community. This initiative will focus on Office Practice Redesign, a proactive, planned approach to making changes that improve patient access and office efficiencies. By adopting the principles of Office Practice Redesign, including access and efficiency, practices learn to balance provider supply with service demands, so patients can see their own provider on the day of their choosing and improve access to primary healthcare. The Learning Community provides an exciting and interactive opportunity for primary healthcare providers from across the province to learn and apply quality improvement methodologies and make changes that lead to true improvements. For further information, including important dates, go to http://www.qiip.ca/. To apply to QIIP’s Office Practice Redesign Action Group, please complete the online registration form at http://www.surveymonkey.com/http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LCWave2OPR by December 10, 2010. If you have any questions, please e-mail info@qiip.ca . We look forward to your participation in the Learning Community, and being part of the next phase in quality improvement in primary healthcare in Ontario.

  • Minister announces opening of City of Kawartha Lakes FHT

    Deb Matthews, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care visited Omemee to announce the opening of the new City of Kawartha Lakes Family Health Team. “The City of Kawartha Lakes Family Health Team will be able to provide increased access to care for over 38,000 people within the next five months. Family Health Teams are providing high quality care and services that are patient-focused across the province.” – Deb Matthews, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care “The services provided by the doctors, nurses and all the team members at the City of Kawartha Lakes Family Health Team will improve access to care for families and become an invaluable resource for this community for many years to come.” – Rick Johnson, MPP Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock “The physicians and staff here at the City of Kawartha Lakes Family Health Team have been looking forward to opening its doors.  As front-line health care providers, we are delighted to have the opportunity to provide our community with high quality, patient-centered care.  By coming together to form a Family Health Team, we are now able to provide care to more patients in a more integrated way.” – Dr. Eric Ready, Lead Physician, City of Kawartha Lakes Family Health Team

  • Minister announces opening of Wise Elephant FHT in Brampton

    Family Health Teams from Wave 4 are beginning to move into the “fully operational” stage of their development.  Health Minister Deb Matthews visited Wise Elephant FHT in Brampton to celebrate its opening with lead physician Dr. Sanjeev Goel and staff.  One of Dr. Goel’s long-time patients enthused about how the practice has grown into a “one-stop shop” for meeting his health care needs. “The Wise Elephant Downtown Brampton Family Health Team will be able to provide increased access to care for over 9,000 people within the next five months. Family Health Teams are providing high quality care and services that are patient-focused across the province.” – Deb Matthews, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care “The services provided by the doctors, nurses and all the team members at the Wise Elephant Family Health Team will improve access to care for families across Brampton. The team will be an invaluable resource for this community for many years to come.” – Vic Dhillon, MPP Brampton West “As a new Family Health Team, our focus will be on keeping our patients and their families healthy.  By pulling together the expertise and services of family doctors and interdisciplinary health care professionals we are better able to meet the unique needs of our patients and improve access to high quality healthcare in Brampton. ” – Dr. Sanjeev Goel, Lead Physician, Wise Elephant Downtown Brampton Family Health Team

  • AFHTO Pension proposal needs 27 more FHT responses

    One of the top concerns identified by Family Health Teams was the gap between the benefits package available through FHT funding, and that offered elsewhere in the health care system.  To help FHTs attract and retain skilled healthcare workers, AFHTO has been working with HOOPP, the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan to address the pension gap.  HOOP has been collecting the data needed to for us to move forward on pension discussions with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. To date 23 FHTs have completed the survey; 27 more are needed in order for the results to be robust for presentation to the Ministry.  Results to date were presented at the October 6 AFHTO 2010 conference; the case is beginning to emerge, but data from at least 27 more FHTs are needed to complete the job. Thank you to the FHTs that have already participated. If your FHT would like to do so as well, it will involve a few hours at most of staff time in order to complete the survey. Please email: fht@hoopp.com. 

  • List of Primary Care Reports and Reporting Platforms

    Report Name – Link to Description (Below)

    Organization

    		 Report Website – Link (External)

    For more information, contact:

    Data to Decisions (D2D)

    		 AFHTO Link to Website carol.mulder@afhto.ca
    Non-Operational Reporting and Analytics (NORA) AOHC Link to Website

    mark@aohc.org

    Data Presentation Tool (DPT)

    		 CPCSSN Link to Website johnaqueenan@gmail.com
    Data Safe Haven UTOPIAN Link to Website

    dfcm.utopian@utoronto.ca

    Screening Activity Report (SAR)

    		 CCO Link to Website screenforlife@cancercare.on.ca
    Your Health System – Ontario CIHI Link to Website

    HSP@cihi.ca

    myPractice (formerly Primary Care Practice Report)

    		 HQO Link to Website

    practicereport@hqontario.ca

    Quality Improvement Plans (QIP Navigator)

    		 HQO Link to Website

    QIP@HQOntario.ca

    EMR Administrative Data Linked Database (EMRALD)

    		 ICES Link to Website emrald@ices.on.ca

    EMR Physician Dashboard Proof-of-Concept

    		 OntarioMD Link to Website

    EMRdashboard@ontariomd.com
    Health Data Branch Portal MOHLTC Link to Website

    DDMSupport@ontario.ca

    Data to Decisions (D2D)

    AFHTO’s Data to Decisions is a compilation of voluntary data contributed by AFHTO members, based on a small number of measures chosen by AFHTO members. ee how D2D aligns with system and practice priorities here.

    Non-Operational Reporting and Analytics (NORA) and Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRD)

    AOHC’s Non-Operational Reporting and Analytics (NORA) work stream aims to give member centres a holistic view of their operations by consolidating key data and presenting it in an integrated and easy-to-analyze manner. NORA is powered by the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool (BIRT) Solution, a bilingual, centrally-hosted system that gathers data and enables robust data analysis using business intelligence tools.

    CPCSSN Data Presentation Tool (DPT)

    CPCSSN is a primary care research initiative—the first pan-Canadian multi-disease electronic medical record surveillance system. CPCSSN collects health information from electronic medical records in the offices of participating primary care providers (e.g. family physicians). The Data Presentation Tool is an EMR-linkable software application that produces sentinel feedback reports for various CPCSSN networks across Canada.

    UTOPIAN Data Safe Haven

    University of Toronto Practice-Based Research Network (UTOPIAN) is one of the regional CPCSSN networks for Ontario. The UTOPIAN Data Safe Haven is a secure researchable database comprised of de-identified patient records extracted from electronic medical records (EMRs) in contributing primary care practices.

    Screening Activity Report (SAR)

    CancerCare Ontario‘s Screening Activity Report (SAR) provides patient enrolment model (PEM) primary care physicians with a supplementary tool for improving their cancer screening rates and appropriate follow-up for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening.

    Your Health System – Ontario

    Your Health System – Ontario is an aggregate report published by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

    MyPractice – Primary Care (formerly Primary Care Practice Report)

    The Primary Care Practice Report (PCPR) is published by Health Quality Ontario (HQO), with data from the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (ICES).

    Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs)/QIP Navigator

    Health Quality Ontario‘s QIP Navigator allows organizations to submit their annual Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs), provides tools and resources to develop an annual QIP, and includes a searchable database of all previously submitted QIPs.

    Electronic Medical Record Administrative data Linked Database (EMRALD)

    EMRALD is a database housed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) that consists of clinically relevant information derived from electronic medical records (EMRs) maintained by family physicians practicing in Ontario. These EMR data can be linked to administrative databases held at ICES. Time commitment is minimal and participation requires the signing of a data sharing agreement that allows EMRALD to collect your data.

    Ontario MD EMR Physician Dashboard proof of concept

    OntarioMD is leading an initiative that will demonstrate improvement in the clinical value of EMRs through an EMR Physician Dashboard Proof of Concept which:

    • provides a framework for real-time access to an introductory set of high-value provincial indicators
    • Associates high-value indicators with data quality of the underlying elements
    • Is provincially scalable and can be easily expanded

    Health Data Branch (HDB) Portal

    The Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC) Health Data Branch Portal allows healthcare providers to access a number of aggregate reports on health system indicators: