Alternate payment model is saving province millions at two Alberta clinics
Excerpt from CBC News, published December 10, 2019
By Jennifer Lee
Offering Patients a Medical Home – Not a Hallway – and a Stronger Health System
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Healthcare Quarterly 22(3) October 2019
Abstract
This article examines three family health teams (FHTs) in different Ontario communities that exemplify the features of a Patient's Medical Home (PMH), a vision developed by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. With PMH supports and foundations in place, these FHTs deliver high-quality care enabled by strong PMH functions: accessible, comprehensive, patient- and family-centred continuous care that is responsive to a community's unique needs. Adhering to PMH principles not only improves patient experience, health outcomes and provider satisfaction but also leads to fewer unnecessary hospital admissions and emergency room visits – system savings and better use of public resources.
Featured FHTs:
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Marathon FHT's High-Yield Approach to Risk Mitigation and Safety (HARMS): A program for safer opioid prescribing through systematic risk stratification and urine drug testing
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Markham FHT's Eating Disorders Bridge Program
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Peterborough FHT: New services improve primary care access to an underserviced region
Authors
- Leanne Clarke, CEO, Ontario College of Family Physicians
- Kavita Mehta, CEO, Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario.
OCFP recognises AFHTO members at 2019 Awards Ceremony
AFHTO congratulates physicians in our member family health teams who were recognized on Thursday, November 28, 2019 at the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP) 2019 Awards Ceremony.
Congratulations to all those recognized this year:
Dr. Jocelyn Charles of Sunnybrook Academic FHT, named 2019 Reg. L Perkin Ontario Family Physician of the Year.
Care plans reduce risk of ending up in hospital for patients with severe mental illness: study
The chances of a patient with a serious mental illness ending up in hospital because of their condition are reduced by almost 40 per cent if they have a care plan, according to the research.
The study, which tracked 20,000 patients with a severe mental illness through the healthcare system, also found that seeing the same GP reduced the risk of an unplanned hospital admission by around 25 per cent.
Professional communication networks may improve job satisfaction in primary care: study
Professional communication networks — described by researchers as “face-to-face interaction about patient care among the health care professionals in a primary care team” — may improve job satisfaction, according to survey results published in Annals of Family Medicine.
Aging at Home: A Portrait of Home-Based Primary Care across Canada
Aging at Home: A Portrait of Home-Based Primary Care across Canada
Article published in Healthcare Quarterly in April 2019
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Welland McMaster FHT reduces ED visits with Mental Health and Addictions Response Team
The Niagara Region has been experiencing an increased demand for emergency health services, which places non-sustainable demand on available resources. Niagara Emergency Medical Services (NEMS) engaged in strategic program development to address low acuity mental health and addictions calls in the community. This resulted in Welland McMaster FHT’s 2018 Bright Lights-nominated program - Mental Health and Addictions Response Team (MHART).