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Seamless Care Optimizing Patient
Experience (SCOPE)

EasT-FPN as the voice of family practice in East Toronto is proud to announce it will be administering SCOPE to ensure it continues to align with the needs of family practice in East Toronto. We are here to help you to access specialists, mental health resources and community care for your patients.

Register for SCOPE today to gain access to the various SCOPE pathways!

Please see pathways below.

 
 

SCOPE PATHWAYS

General Internal Medicine (GIM):

  • Urgent physician-to-physician consult with an internist. 

  • Secure a timely appointment at the General Internal Medicine clinic for urgent cases.

Home and Community Care Coordination:

  • In-home assessments and access to community-based resources and home care.

  • Obtain updates on your existing patients who receive these services or are experiencing delay or disruption in services.

Nurse Navigator:

  • Your own virtual navigator to save you and your office staff time. 

  • Identify, connect and help you and your patient navigate accessing specialists, sub-specialists, programs, and services at MGH and throughout Ontario.

Diagnostic Imaging:

  • Expedited appointments at MGH diagnostic imaging for your urgent non emergent cases.

  • Submit a request to a radiologist for report interpretation for patients with imaging done at MGH, and identifying appropriate tests in complex situations.

Mental Health:

  • MH Social Worker: Identify, connect and help you/your patients navigate accessing resources needed to support their mental health including free short term one-on-one counseling/therapy.

  • Peer to Peer with Psychiatry: Timely physician-to-physician phone consultation with a psychiatrist for management of mental health in the community.

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: rapid access to assessments by CAP. 

Fracture Clinic

  • Expedited appointments at MGH’s fracture clinic for appropriate urgent cases.

Palliative Care

  • Physician-to-physician phone consultation with a Palliative care specialist for support, including medication changes and symptom management.

ENT

  • The pathway is intended to support primary care clinicians making referrals to the Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) specialist clinic through the SCOPE program.

 Toronto Hepatitis C program

  • Easier access to the Hepatitis C clinic for HCV support, education, testing and treatment to individuals living with or at risk of acquiring Hepatitis C infection.

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM

  • The SCOPE Mental Health Program provides rapid contact for patients in need of mental health support

  • Comprised of a team of two mental health social workers, the program offers assistance with:

    • Service navigation and connecting patients to appropriate resources

    • Bridging support

    • Counseling/therapy with a social worker

    • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry consults

  • Click here for more information about the program.

  • Click here for the Mental Health Program Referral Form.

We encourage you to sign up for SCOPE by completing the registration form found here. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at contact@eastfpn.org.

EasT-FPN MRP: Dr. Rahima Alani