July 2021 Newsletter

July Newsletter Highlights:

• Save the date: Annual General Meeting (AGM) - September 29, 2021 from 7-9pm

• QIP Funding Opportunity to Reduce Cancer Screening Backlog

• Primary and Community Care (PCC) Response Teams 

• Practice Supports and Patient Resources

  • Tkaronto Indigenous People’s Portal 

  • Long Haul COVID-19 Program

• Youth and Adult Mental Health Primary Care Survey 

• Hospitalist Work Opportunities

• COVID-19 Assessment Centre/ Vaccine Clinics

Save the date: Annual General Meeting (AGM) - September 29, 2021 from 7-9pm

• Join your fellow EasT-FPN members at the 2nd Annual General Meeting. Attendees will participate in a wellness session, network with primary care colleagues, elect new EasT-FPN Board members & share in the accomplishments of the past year.

• Closer to the date, a meeting link and instructions will be shared with all those who register. Please complete the following form to pre-register today!

• Not an EasT-FPN Member? Learn more about the EasT-FPN and complete the Membership Application.

QIP Funding Opportunity to Reduce Cancer Screening Backlog

• The Toronto Central Regional Cancer Program, Cancer Screening Team is providing up to $2,000 funding and additional in-kind support for primary care practices testing and/or implementing improvement ideas focused on reducing cancer screen backlog due to COVID-19. 

• Click here for further details. 

Primary and Community Care (PCC) Response Teams 

• PCC Response Teams are now accepting referrals from new and existing PCC Response Team partners. Please read the attached flyer and visit the ETHP website for more information and the referral form. If you have any questions, please contact Lori Sutton at lsutton@srchc.com. 

Practice Supports and Patient Resources 

Tkaronto Indigenous People’s Portal 

• Check out the new Tkaronto Indigenous People’s Portal that has resources, community events, research, policy and job opportunities for members of our Indigenous communities.

Long Haul COVID-19 Program 

• Unity Health Toronto has launched a new COVID-19 Recovered Outpatient Rehabilitation Program at Providence Healthcare that supports medically-stable patients experiencing non-urgent post-COVID-19 symptoms through an inter-professional team that includes an occupational therapist, physiotherapist and physiatrist. 

• Please use the referral form and fax the completed referrals to the Admissions Office at 416-285-3759 and call the Admissions Office at 416-285-3744 with any questions.

SCOPE 

• Register for SCOPE today and get rapid access to nurse navigation, general internal medicine, diagnostic imaging and more! SCOPE also provides access to orthopaedic services at MGH - click here for the fracture clinic weekly schedule and sub-specialist details. 

• Please email SCOPE@tehn.ca with any feedback/suggestions for new services you would like to see added.

Free O2 Sat Monitor 

• Primary care professionals can request oxygen saturation monitors through the Ministry of Health’s COVID@Home initiative that belong to their practice and can be loaned out to patients as required. Please complete the Oxygen Saturation Monitor Eligibility and Intake Form to request a monitor.

Digital Solutions 

• 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

• Ocean eReferral continues to expand in East Toronto – enabling enhanced communication between primary care providers and specialists/organizations and simplifying the referral process. If you are interested in using Ocean eReferral, please contact the eServices Team: eReferral@ehealthce.ca.

MGH Rounds 

• Virtual Medical Grand Rounds and Family Practice Rounds are continuing monthly, offering interesting topics and a chance to connect with your colleagues! Please email to get on the list for Family Practice Rounds and email for the next Medical Grand Rounds.

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.

Youth and Adult Mental Health Primary Care Survey 

• In partnership with MGH, and other community organizations, the ETHP is redesigning the youth mental health experience for youth (ages 12-29), providers, and caregivers. Please complete the following survey that will inform how EasT-FPN primary care practitioners are currently supporting mental health in East Toronto enabling us to understand the interests and required support to build an integrated health system to support youth and their mental health. 

Hospitalist Work Opportunities

• Michael Garron Hospital (MGH) has two Hospitalist work opportunities. If you are interested, please review the opportunities for the Division of Complex Continuing Care and Division of Hospitalist Medicine.

COVID-19 Assessment Centre/ Vaccine Clinics 

• As community transmission of COVID-19 has decreased, fewer assessment community pop-ups will be operating. Please see the updated list of temporary COVID-19 testing sites in East Toronto and their hours here. 

• Through the EasT-FPN, 80 family physicians and 27 specialists colleagues signed up to vaccinate at the Scotiabank Arena Winning Shot event on June 27th, 2021. Click here for the instructions on how to sign up for shifts at the CAC/pop up sites and Vaccination Clinics.

• Primary care vaccine clinics have been working hard to vaccinate patients in East Toronto. Click here to see what the clinics have to say regarding the primary care vaccine clinics.