Individualized assessment and education for people with COPD including spirometry screening and medication review by a Certified Respiratory Educator. Please speak to your Physician or Nurse Practitioner for more information!

Home for Life Expanding!

Presented by Southlake Regional Health Centre over the Ontario Telemedicine network, this session will cover topics including:
A overview of Osteoporosis, Medications, Healthy Eating, Safety and Falls Prevention, and Exercises to improve bone health.  There is a fee of $35 (if you are concerned about cost for your patients please indicate so on your referral and we will try to accomidate).
 
November 28th 8:30am-3:30pm
Erie St Boardroom
Patients can be referred by using the OTN section of our referral form, or by calling 705-444-5885.

The Georgian Bay Family Health Team in collaboration with the South Georgian Bay Community Health Centre and NSM DRCC are planning a dinner  event to be held at Cranberry Resorts in Collingwood on Tues Nov 13^th, 2012.  Our objective for the event is to provide “clinical pearls” to nurses employed at Collingwood General and Marine Hospital and St Elizabeth Home Healthcare on diabetes management “Bridging the Gaps between Hospital, Home and Clinic”. 

Our office is now equiped with a 24 hour blood pressure monitor!  Please visit our Hypertension clinic page or speak to your Pahysician or Nurse Practitioner for more information.

Congratulations to Dr. Wells on being the Ontario recipient of this year's Family Physician of the Year. The award  is given to one doctor from each province who has demonstrated outstanding patient care, significant contributions to the health and well-being of their community and commitment to family medicine teaching and research.

The MOH started an initiative to provide sites with equipment that require more Telemedicine resources to support mental health patients. The system fees and OTN fee for a new system are covered by the MOH. Katrine McCarl (Nurse Coordinator for OTN) applied for this funding and was approved for a second telemedicine machine, which will be arriving in November/December.  This will allow us to schedule more than one patient over OTN at a time, reducing wait times, and allowing for more education events.  Way to go Katrine!!

In light of the recent outbreaks a presentation was organized by Dr. Mark Quigg, RN Katrine McCarl and OTN staff and broadcast over telemedicine to reach the entire province.  Dr. Susy Hota, an Infectious Disease Specialist at UHN - and an excellent speaker - made the presentation very interesting.

The child and youth counselling team here at the FHT have been busy putting together week long programs for kids and teens.  

Home for Life is a collaborative project in our community.  Started by the Georgian Bay Family Health Team, The Collingwood General and Marine Hospital, and Simcoe County's 211 service the collaborative group met with seniors and health care professionals to discuss how to best help seniors stay at home and independent throughout their years.