We are now sharing more information on all the nominations for the Bright Lights Awards! See the Bright Lights Hall of Fame below for all submissions and their details:
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Nomination Title (Click title to open submission description) |
Theme | Nominee Information |
| Foam Rolling for Chronic Pain Management | Mental health and addictions | Temagami FHT and Great Northern FHT |
| Making Real Functional Gains While Living with Chronic Pain: McMaster FHT (MFHT) Allied Health: Occupational Therapy (OT) and Physiotherapy (PT) programs. | Mental health and addictions | McMaster FHT - Martha Bauer (OT), Laura Doyle (PT), Colleen McPhee (PT), Colleen O'Neill (OT) |
| HFAFHT Safe Opioid Prescribing Initiative | Mental health and addictions | Health for All FHT - Dr. Maya Maliakkal, Jadie Stone (Nurse Practitioner) Zhanying Shi (IT/EMR Program Administrator) |
| An Innovative eHealth Approach to Opioid Prescribing Developed Through a Multi-Organization "Think Tank" Collaboration | Mental health and addictions | Waterloo Wellington eHealth Think Tank |
| Investing in Intake: Increasing Patient Engagement and Reducing Wait-times for Mental Health Services within the Dufferin Area FHT | Mental health and addictions | Dufferin Area FHT - Mental Health Team |
| Centre for Family Medicine FHT (CFFM) Partnership for Mental Health Services (The Partnership) | Mental health and addictions | Centre for Family Medicine FHT - (CFFM) Partnership for Mental Health Services (The Partnership) |
| The Launch of MHART (Mental Health & Addictions Response Team): An innovative partnership between Welland McMaster FHT and Niagara Region's Emergency Medical Services to reduce ED visits and improve patient outcomes. | Mental health and addictions | Welland McMaster FHT |
| Advocacy in Addition Medicine (or Addictions) - Dr. Anita Srivastava | Mental health and addictions | St. Joseph's Urban FHT - Dr. Anita Srivastava |
| Caroline Families First Wraparound Program (CFF) | Mental health and addictions | Caroline Families First |
| Mental Health Services at WCH AFHT: Improving Access without increasing resources | Mental health and addictions | WCH AFHT Mental Health Committee [Karen Burrell (SW), Ken Callaghan, Dr. Melissa DeSouza, Holly Finn, Dr. Stephen Holzapfel, Bibi Khan, Dr. Bradley Lichtblau, Chantal Simms (SW), Sherry Teeter, Todd Tran (OT)] |
| Reduced hospitalization rate for COPD in population with serious mental illness | Mental health and addictions | Village FHT |
| Emotion-Focused Mindfulness Group to Enhance Coping and Resilience in Family Medicine Patients Living with Common Mental Illnesses | Mental health and addictions | Mount Sinai Academic FHT - Mental Health Team |
| Identifying 'At Risk' Opioid Patients in a FHT | Mental health and addictions | Credit Valley FHT |
| When Things Aren't Adding Up, Start Subtracting! - Benzodiazepine/Z-Drug Deprescribing Initiative at Taddle Creek FHT | Mental health and addictions | Taddle Creek FHT |
| Delivering a condensed approach to group therapy to optimize patient commitment and reduce attrition rate while providing enhanced coping tools and self-awareness techniques. | Mental health and addictions | West Durham FHT - Bhavna Verma |
| Social Aces and The School Success Program at the Couchiching FHT: An effective partnership to boost social competence in children struggling with mental health issues and learning disabilities. | Mental health and addictions | Couchiching FHT |
| We have an incredible team of IHPs | Healthy relationships, healthy teams | Jane Finch FHT IHPs |
| Working together - Healthy team - healthy community | Healthy relationships, healthy teams | Manitouwadge FHT |
| Full scope RNs in family practice improve access, continuity and reduce ER visits | Healthy relationships, healthy teams | Dr. Lokanathan & Team - Lindsay Chmarney, Sheena Howard, Brittany Murray, Kelly Pensom (part of Greater Peterborough FHO) |
| Team Awesome | Healthy relationships, healthy teams | Sunnybrook Academic FHT |
| Northeastern Ontario FHT Executive Director Network (NEOFHTN) | Healthy relationships, healthy teams | Northeastern Ontario FHT Network (NEOFHTN) - Cochrane FHT, Huron Shores FHT, Corporation of the Municipality of Assiginack FHT, East End FHT, Elliot Lake FHT, Blue Sky FHT, Englehart & District FHT, Burks Falls FHT, Espanola & Area FHT, Chapleau & District FHT, Great Northern FHT, City of Lakes FHT, Haileybury RNPG FHT, Kirkland Lake FHT, South Algonquin FHT, Manitoulin Central FHT, Superior FHT, Northeastern Manitoulin FHT, Temagami Medical Centre and FHT, NORD-ASKI FHT, Timmins FHT, Baawating FHT, Wawa FHT, Parry Sound FHT, West Nipissing FHT, Powassan & Area FHT, Iroquois Falls FHT, and the five Northeastern QIDSS |
| Creating A Healthier Team Environment Through Practice Facilitation | Healthy relationships, healthy teams | Clinton FHT |
| A Well-Supported Team-Based Practice Excelling Chronic Disease Management and Immunization in Communities with a High Percentage of Older Asian Immigrants | Healthy relationships, healthy teams | Carefirst FHT |
| SAFHT Cares | Healthy relationships, healthy teams | Southlake Academic FHT |
| Prescott Family Health Team (PFHT) engages all multidisciplinary team members in the fight against HPV Diseases including Cervical Cancer. | Healthy relationships, healthy teams | Prescott Family Health Team |
| Don Mills FHT Prenatal Outreach Pilot for At Risk Women in North SubRegion | Expanding your reach | Don Mills FHT/Sunnybrook Department of Family and Community Medicine |
| Centre for Family Medicine Refugee Health Clinic | Expanding your reach | Centre for Family Medicine FHT Refugee Health Clinic |
| MAC H2OPE: Helping Hamiltonians through Occupational therapy and Physiotherapy Engagement | Expanding your reach | MAC H2OPE, Hamilton FHT, McMaster FHT, McMaster University, YMCA |
| Physician Assistant's Impact upon vulnerable community patients at high risk of hospitalization | Expanding your reach | Jean Guo |
| McMaster FHT Healthy Aging Series | Expanding your reach | McMaster FHT: Dajana Lukic, Laura Doyle, Glenda Pauw, Colleen McPhee, Dr Doug Oliver, Dr Dale Guenter, Martha Bauer, Kiska Colwill and Sophia Lourenco |
| KW4 Community Ward Team: Interprofessional In-Home Primary Care for Medically and Socially Complex Patients | Expanding your reach | KW4 Community Ward |
| Providing Healthcare on Pelee Island | Expanding your reach | Harrow Health Centre Inc - A FHT |
| Leading Our Community to Better Care and Access | Expanding your reach | Atikokan FHT |
| Delhi Community COPD Program | Expanding your reach | Delhi Community COPD Program |
| Building Capacity within SAFHT | Expanding your reach | Southlake Academic FHT |
| Improving Access to a Rural Community | Expanding your reach | Espanola and Area FHT |
| Increasing Access and Safety to Newcomers | Expanding your reach | Nancy Frink-Costa |
| Bringing together Primary Care Practitioners of the Couchiching FHT for a yearly Quality Improvement and Information Technology Summit | Expanding your reach | Couchiching FHT |
| How To Handle a National Drug Recall: The Pivotal Role of the FHT Pharmacist | The "How to" stream | The Credit Valley FHT - Superna Ramesh- Pharm D candidate U of T APPE student |
| PPI Deprescribing - Where We Came From, Where We're At, Where We're Going | The "How to" stream | Credit Valley FHT |
| Team-Based Transition Management- A Hospital Discharge Follow-up Process | The "How to" stream | Tilbury District FHT |
| SAFHT's Complex Patient Program | The "How to" stream | Southlake Academic FHT |
| Empowering patients to improve their diet and exercise habits to reduce cardiometabolic risk | The "How to" stream | Northumberland FHT (NFHT) and Loyalist FHT (LFHT) |
| Improving Quality Patient Care and Safety Through a Team-Based Data Standardization Committee | The "How to" stream | North York FHT EMR Standardization Committee |
| HIPS Home based Interdisciplinary Primary care for Seniors: for medically complex, socially isolated seniors | The "How to" stream | Mount Sinai Academic FHT - HIPS |
| Innovative Use of EMR Reminders to Make a Difference to Renally Impaired Patients. | The "How to" stream | Dr. Bernie Murphy |
| Enhancing Patient Experience - Directing Patients to the Correct Location | The "How to" stream | St. Joseph's Urban FHT - Clerical Team |
| How to Recover Quickly from a Catastrophic Business Operations Interruption | The "How to" stream | Georgina NPLC |
| Be Well Community Collective - To raise happy, healthy children in South Georgian Bay. | The "How to" stream | Be Well Community Collaborative - Jennifer McMaster (Georgian Bay FHT), Jennifer Parker (Healthy Kids Community Challenge), Fiona Proctor & Ruth McArthur (Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit) |
| Creating a Medical Home in Harrow | The "How to" stream | Harrow Health Centre Inc - A FHT |
| Alliston FHT Nordic Walking Program | The "How to" stream | Alliston FHT - Karim Zia & Leanne Martin |
| Bringing Care Closer to Home for Patients with COPD - Pulmonary Rehab in a Small Rural Northern FHT | The "How to" stream | Temagami FHT |
| Population Health- A Call to Action | The "How to" stream | City of Lakes FHT |
| The Guelph FHT has been accepted as a Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) pre-designate | The "How to" stream | Guelph Family Health Team |
| Finding Poverty at Sunnybrook | Why hasn't this expanded: scalable pilot programs | Sunnybrook Academic FHT |
| Primary Care Palliative Care Pathway | Why hasn't this expanded: scalable pilot programs | City of Lakes FHT |
| Primary Care Collaborative Memory Clinics: Enhanced care in FHTs for persons living with dementia | Why hasn't this expanded: scalable pilot programs | The Centre for Family Medicine FHT Memory Clinic |
| Reach Out And Read (ROAR): Addressing Literacy in Primary Care | Why hasn't this expanded: scalable pilot programs | St Joseph's Health Centre |
| Electronic Medical Record: Integrated Solution in Primary Care to Screen and Provide Supports for Those Living in Poverty | Why hasn't this expanded: scalable pilot programs | Two Rivers FHT |
| Income Security Health Promotion Program: St. Michael's FHT | Why hasn't this expanded: scalable pilot programs | St. Michael's Hospital Academic FHT - Social Determinant of Health Committee |
| Markham FHT Eating Disorders (ED) Bridge Program | Why hasn't this expanded: scalable pilot programs | Markham FHT - ED Bridge Program Program Lead |
| Ontario's First FHT To Achieve Baby Friendly (BFI) Designation | Why hasn't this expanded: scalable pilot programs | Two Rivers FHT |
| The HARMS Program for Safer Opioid Prescribing through Systematic Risk Stratification and Urine Drug Testing | Why hasn't this expanded: scalable pilot programs | Marathon FHT - Chronic Pain and Addictions Committee |
| Muskoka Community Health Hubs | Why hasn't this expanded: scalable pilot programs | Cottage Country FHT |
| In-house Medical Cannabis Program | Why hasn't this expanded: scalable pilot programs | Thamesview FHT |
| Making ends Meet - How To Improve Health by addressing Social Determinants of Health : The Niagara Medical Group FHT Community Health and Prosperity (CHP) Program | The future of the regional approach to healthcare | Niagara Medical Group FHT Community Health and Prosperity Program: Katie McNeil, Brian Turner, Dr. Roxan Guise |
| Improving Quality Together - Working as a LHIN sub-region to decrease readmission rates | The future of the regional approach to healthcare | North Huron and North Perth FHTs and Listowel Wingham Hospital Alliance |
| Primary Care Health Link Coordination / System Navigation Experiences | The future of the regional approach to healthcare | Maple FHT |
| The North Stars: Leading the Way in Collective Action | The future of the regional approach to healthcare | Northeastern Ontario FHT Network |
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