AFHTO Requests a Return to Federal-Provincial-Territorial Health Funding Negotiations
Toronto, Jan. 6, 2017 – The Association of Family of Health Teams of Ontario (AFHTO) is strongly urging a return to the table between the federal and provincial governments to negotiate a health agreement that will ensure we have a long-term sustainable health system today and for future generations. The proposed offer by the federal […]
Hamilton FHT looks to expand lessons of Dundas Hub pilot project across city
Dundas Star News article published January 4, 2017. Article in full pasted below. Craig Campbell, Dundas Star News Dundas Hub creating new model for integration The new year is expected to bring a significant transition in the way health care is provided in Hamilton. A pilot project by the Hamilton Family Health Team in Dundas is […]
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Kavita Mehta takes over today as AFHTO’s new CEO
Kavita Mehta, AFHTO CEO Angie Heydon, outgoing AFHTO CEO I am so honoured to join AFHTO today as your new CEO, following in the very big shoes of our inaugural CEO Angie Heydon. After working as an ED for 9 years in a Family Health Team, I am eager to bring my operational and strategic […]
Review of Ontario’s digital health strategy. Highlights of AFHTO’s contribution
Minister Eric Hoskins and eHealth Ontario have now received Ed Clark’s review of Ontario’s Digital Health Assets, which confirms the significant and ongoing value of digital health infrastructure, and have accepted all of his recommendations in principle. In October the provincial government requested the Premier’s Business Advisor, Mr. Ed Clark, assess the value of ehealth […]
North York FHT screening for poverty using postal codes
CBC News article published November 22, 2016. Article in full pasted below. Shanifa Nasser, CBC News Diabetes, heart disease, mental illness and trauma — at first glance, these conditions might not appear to have much in common, but a Toronto doctor says one key trait often lies beneath them: poverty. Dr. Kimberly Wintemute, a physician with […]
AFHTO’s recommendations re Bill 41, Patients First
“Moving care coordinators from CCACs to LHINs does not remove barriers, it just moves them from one bureaucracy to another. If primary care providers were supported to coordinate care, it would make a significant difference for the health of patients and their experience of care.” With this and other comments, AFHTO presented to the Standing […]
Patients not attached to new primary care practices receive lower quality care, research suggests
Article published in Annals of Family Medicine on November 14, 2016 The accompanying news release and abstract are shown below. One in six patients in Ontario does not belong to an organized primary care practice, new research suggests. These patients receive lower quality care and are more likely to be poor, urban and new immigrants, […]
Manitoulin Central FHT Physician named Regional Physician of the Year
The Manitoulin Expositor article published November 9, 2016. Article in full pasted below. Expositor Staff, The Manitoulin Expositor MINDEMOYA—Dr. Maurianne Reade, a physician at the Manitoulin Central Family Health Team in Mindemoya, is this year’s Northeast and Northwest Ontario 2016 Regional Physician of the Year as awarded by the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP) Awards. The […]
Queen’s FHT & Belleville NPLC join community partners in prescribing exercise
Inside Belleville article published October 28, 2016. Article in full pasted below. Erin Stewart, Quinte West News Prescription to exercise, doctor’s orders A new health care prescription has made its way to the Quinte region; it’s not actual medicine, but a 60-day pass to the YMCA to get people moving. The Quinte West and Belleville YMCA have launched […]