Theme 2. Planning programs for equitable access to care
Presentation Details
- Date: Thursday, October 26, 2017
- Concurrent Session D
- Time: 9:30am-10:15am
- Room:
- 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
- Understand how to triage patient waiting for a primary care provider
- Understand how to develop a program to manage patients with no primary care provider
- Understand how to mitigate clinical, organizaitonal and legal risk associated with caring for patient with no provider
Summary/Abstract The Unattached Patient Program (UPP) is intended to provide residents in the greater Owen Sound Area, who do not have a primary care provider with access to a general assessment, screening investigations, and referral as indicated to local specialists and community programs. If available and agreed upon, clients may be referred to a primary care practitioner for enrollment with the OSFHT. The UPP supports early detection and management of asymptomatic disease and risk factors. The emphasis is not to provide comprehensive primary care; rather the emphasis is on assessment, screening, preventive health care interventions (eg: immunization), health education and required follow up and referrals. The available information will inform health care management for both the patient and future providers. Presenters
- Caroline Rafferty, Executive Director, Owen Sound Family Health Team
- Betty Barber, Nurse Practitioner, Owen Sound Family Health Team
Authors & Contributors
- Betty Barber, Nurse Practitioner
- Caroline Rafferty, Executive Director
- Kaitlin Low, Registered Nurse