March 2022 Newsletter

March Newsletter Highlights

  • HATM New FHO Family Physician Recruitment

  • Virtual Mix and Mingle Family Practice and Specialists

  • FREE 1:1 Mental Health Resources for Patients Registered to SCOPE Physicians

  • SCOPE- Ortho Referral Pathway

  • EasT-FPN Leadership Updates

  • First Dose at Home Program

  • COVID-19 Response Forums

  • Primary Care COVID-19 Guidance and Revocation of Directive #2 and Revised Directive #2.1

  • Practice Supports and Patient Resources

HATM New FHO Family Physician Recruitment

  • Health Access Taylor-Massey (HATM) is looking for family physicians to practice as a part of a FHO in the Taylor-Massey neighbourhood.

  • Please click here for more information and how to apply.

Virtual Mix and Mingle Family Practice and Specialists

  • Thank you to the 130+ registrants consisting of family practice clinicians and specialists who attended the Virtual Mix and Mingle on March 2nd! We had 1:1 networking and over 15 departmental booths!

  • We would love to know what you thought of the event and if you didn't attend why not? Please complete the following short post-event survey. Please note: all the SkiptheDishes gift cards were emailed so please check your junk mailbox!

FREE 1:1 Mental Health Resources for Patients Registered to SCOPE Physicians

  • SCOPE is offering a short-term mental health program that is available between now and March 31, 2022.

  • Please click here for the eligibility criteria and how to send a referral.

  • Register for SCOPE today to take advantage of the mental health program!

 SCOPE - Ortho Referral Pathway

  • Do you need help getting your patient with a fracture seen by orthopaedics in a timely manner? SCOPE in the East is always adding NEW services to support you!

  • Click here to see how you can refer your patients to the fracture clinic.

EasT-FPN Leadership Updates

On behalf of Dr. Catherine Yu, Board Chair of the EasT-FPN, Dr. Karen Chu, President, EasT-FPN, and Tach Murray, Director of Operations & Finance, EasT-FPN:

  • We are excited to announce that Dr. Warda Iqbal has joined the EasT-FPN as the new Health Access Taylor-Massey (HATM) Medical Director - Engagement and Systems Design, and Dr. Maggie Hess has joined us as the new HATM Clinical Lead.

  • Thank you to Dr. Ruth Hussman and Dr. Meera Shah for all their hard work on SCOPE and Digital Health respectively! We look forward to working with Dr. Rahima Alani, who will be taking over as the lead for SCOPE work and Dr. Stephen Pomedli, for Digital Health.

  • Thank you to Dr. Anjuli Little for joining the team.

  • We would like to welcome our new Projects Managers Farin Ghaemi, Peter Gong, and Ghada Youssef.

First Dose at Home Program

  • MGH and ETHP have launched the First Dose at Home Program, which is helping East Toronto seniors, who may be isolated or having trouble going to a clinic by bringing first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to seniors’ homes

  • Click here for more details.

COVID-19 Response Forums

  • The Primary Care COVID-19 Open Forum will not be running in the month of March. Please take a look at the Feb 23rd summary document.

Primary Care COVID-19 Guidance and Revocation of Directive #2 and Revised Directive #2.1

Practice Supports and Patient Resources

  • 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