February 2022 Newsletter

February Newsletter Highlights

  • Outpatient Treatment for COVID+ Patients - This Wednesday February 9 at 1pm

  • Complex Personality Presentations: Webinar February 11th

  • Take a Break from COVID! Virtual Mix and Mingle Family Practice and Specialists  - March 2, 2022 from 6-8pm

  • COVID-19 Response Forums 

  • Help Vaccinate East Toronto! 

  • Practice Supports and Patient Resources

Outpatient Treatment for COVID+ Patients - This Wednesday February 9 at 1pm

  • Scarborough Health Network is featuring a session from 1-2 pm on how to obtain care for your patients with COVID at SHN’s therapeutics clinic. Drs. Susan John, Elaine Yeung and Adbel Belhaj will describe the various aspects of diagnosis, referral, and clinic treatment as well as long-term care access for your patients with COVID. Glyn Boatswain, VP and Chief Nursing Executive will describe how SHN Assessment Clinics operate.

  • Click here to join! 

Complex Personality Presentations: Education Series hosted by Primary and Community Care Response Teams (PCCRT)

  • Part 1 – “Understanding personality formation, attachment and the language around personality disorders” (Friday February 11 9:00-10:00am)  

    • Advance registration required: part one (Feb 11) click here.

  • Part 2 – “ Learning ways to approach working with clients/patients with more complex personality structures” (Friday March 4 9:00am-10:00am)

    • Advance registration required: part two (Mar 4) click here.

  • Facilitated by Dr. Mark Lachmann, a geriatric psychiatrist working with patients in acute, rehabilitation, long-term care, and community settings. Mark is a member of the Primary and Community Care Response Teams' Seniors Mental Health Collaborative, where he shares his expertise to support integrated care planning for adults with unmet health and social needs. He practiced as a family physician for ten years in Northern Canada before re-training as a psychiatrist.

Primary and Community Care Response Teams (PCCRT)

  • Offers team-based health and social services care planning to help vulnerable adults navigate the healthcare system.

  • Adults who may not have a family doctor, may be housebound and/or have unmet health or social needs are connected to additional supports and services that are close to home.

  • An ETHP initiative that includes family physicians, home care coordinators, nurse practitioners, case managers, mental health practitioners, supportive housing workers, volunteer community health ambassadors and others.

  • By working together within their local communities, our PCC Response Teams create integrated, comprehensive coordinated care plans for vulnerable adults that help them meet their health goals at home and in their community

  • To find out more about PCC Response Teams including how to refer please visit our website.

Take a break from COVID! Virtual Mix and Mingle Family Practice and Specialists - March 2, 2022 from 6-8pm

  • Take a break from COVID-19 and come meet family practice and specialists from all over East Toronto!

  • Join your colleagues for a virtual networking opportunity and learn more about the benefits of SCOPE, Oceans eReferral, and Hypercare that all aim to make referrals more seamless in East Toronto! Stay tuned for additional details. 

  • First 200 registrants will get a SkipTheDishes gift card! Please register for the event using this link and click here for registration instructions. 

COVID-19 Response Forums

  • Primary Care COVID-19 Open Forum
    Join us for the monthly primary care open forum on February 23rd from 6:00-7:00pm for COVID-19 updates, resources and a Q&A opportunity with Dr. Jeff Powis, Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control at MGH. 

  • LTC Support Discussion Forum
    Join the quarterly forums on February 24th from 4:30-5:00pm that aim to support and advise LTC homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Help Vaccinate East Toronto!

  • Find out how you can sign up for shifts at the COVID-19 Outreach Centres and Vaccination Clinics.

  • Click here for more information and locations/hours.

Practice Supports and Patient Resources

  • Register for SCOPE today and get rapid access to nurse navigation, general internal medicine, diagnostic imaging and more! Please email SCOPE@tehn.ca with any feedback/suggestions for new services you would like to see added.

  • Download Hypercare for easy and secure communication among community primary care providers and hospital care providers. Visit the EasT-FPN website for more information on digital solutions and Hypercare.

  • Ocean eReferral continues to expand in East Toronto – if you are interested in using Ocean eReferral, please contact the eServices Team: eReferral@ehealthce.ca.

Become an EasT-FPN member

  • The EasT-FPN encourages you, if you have not already, to become a member to receive clinical and practice support and opportunities to engage with the East Toronto community. Please fill out the Membership application form to become a member.

Membership Intake Form

  • As part of the membership onboarding, members are encouraged to complete the following EasT-FPN Membership Intake Form, which will provide us with the necessary information to coordinate access to interprofessional digital services and platforms and provide us with key practice information, which will help inform EasT-FPN program and service planning for East Toronto primary care practices.

East Toronto Family Practice Network