Bits & Pieces: Indigenous Midwifery Programs, Expanded Midwifery Care Models and more
Your Weekly News & Updates In This Issue Applications open for Indigenous Midwifery Programs, Expanded Midwifery Care Models Climate Conscious Inhaler Prescribing Collaborative Updates to GoodLife member benefits Guidance on testing and management of monkeypox for primary care, and more Colorectal Cancer Resource & Action Network seeking speaker Reminder- nominate a partner or […]
Bits & Pieces: partnership to improve access to psychological services for the front line & more
Your Weekly News & Updates In This Issue Partnership to improve access to psychological services for front line workers Letter from AFHTO’s President Pandemic Pay Update to critical supplies & equipment survey portal- training sessions Mental Health Week Updated screening and testing guidance and more Infection prevention and control CoP in Ontario Central West […]
Health Link Leaders: Forming a Link (Sept 27)
AFHTO’s Health Link Community of Practice met on September 21st. This communique provides an overview and highlights key items discussed: Shaping the Future: Advanced Health Links Mode Health Link CoP: Building a Partnership with the Ministry NSM Integrate Project Care Coordination Tool Primary Care Update: what we know & what we’re doing about it Shaping […]
Health Links: Current status and update on resources
Whether you are in one of the 47 Health Links have been approved to date, or will be participating in a future Health Link, the presentations listed below will give you an update on the progress of Health Link implementation to date. These presentations were made at a meeting last week for all the associations […]
AFHTO 2013 Conference – Integration: Building the team beyond the FHT
Theme description: While Health Links are focused on high users of health services, all Ontarians stand to benefit – as patients and citizens – from greater collaboration among healthcare providers, other agencies, community stakeholders and governments. Presentations in this stream will focus on building collaborative relationships and working with community partners towards providing the right […]
Family Health Teams play a prominent role in Ontario’s Health Links
The first 19 Health Links were announced today by Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Deb Matthews. Health Links bring together health care providers in a community to better and more quickly coordinate care for high-need patients. Seven of the 19 Health Links announced today will be coordinated by family health teams: Barrie and Community […]
Looking to the Future: Collaboration & Engagement Through Social Media
In early 2010 500,000 Facebook users rallied together to get Betty White to host the season finally of Saturday Night Live, which was SNL’s highest rated episode in 2 years. In 2007 Justin Bieber, teen pop sensation from Stratford Ontario, was discovered after his mom posted videos of him singing on YouTube. Since its creation […]
Kenora Wound Care Pilot Project
In September 2008, Sunset Country FHT received funding from Health Force Ontario for a Collaborative Wound Care Pilot Project that involved several community agencies in developing and implementing a comprehensive wound assessment and wound care treatment program based on best practice guidelines. This slide presentation from the AFHTO 2010 conference provides a study of an […]