F1-b - An integrated model of comprehensive primary care for unattached patients

1. Access to care: improving access to team-based care

  • Date: Friday, September 20, 2019
  • Concurrent Session F

  • Time: 12:00pm-12:45pm

  • Room: Harbour A & B
  • Style: Presentation (information provided to audience, with opportunity for audience to ask question)
  • Focus: Practical (e.g. Presentation on how to implement programs and/or practices in the team environment)
  • Target Audience: Leadership (ED, clinical lead, board chair, board member, etc.), Clinical providers, Administrative staff, Representatives of stakeholder/partner organizations

Learning Objectives

The purpose of the Virtual Family Physician Network is to facilitate access to care for unattached patients. Non-rostered patients are provided comprehensive primary care via OTN and this allows for integration with local health care services and social service agencies.  No outside use is created and patient charts are transferred to FHT primary care providers as resources become available. Patients are followed until a primary care provider becomes available and the full scope of preventative care, episodic care and follow up is provided.  The presentation will explain how the program works and what the requirements for implementation are. It is hoped that organizations applying for Ontario Health Teams will include this important primary care access to care model in their plans.
 

Summary/Abstract

  1. A review of the current state of access to primary care in the Province 
  2. A brief review of the consequences of lack of access to primary care in terms of detection and management of asymptomatic disease. 
  3. Description of the basis for the establishment of the Virtual Family Physician Network; to provide responsible integrated primary care not just episodic care and to integrate with and not compete with existing provider groups 
  4. Review of status of programs to date: number of patients seen, number of patients transferred to local providers, types of referrals and examples where referrals not possible without a primary care provider
     

Presenter

  • Samuel Berman, Director, The Virtual Family Physician Network

Authors/Contributors

  • Samuel Berman, Director, The Virtual Family Physician Network
2019 Concurrent Session