A GRAND NEW CENTRE
Grand River Community Health Centre opens it's doors
Grand River Community Health Centre (GRCHC) opened the doors of their new home yesterday with a celebration that included a walking tour, featured community programs and delicious healthy food prepared in the sparkling new community kitchen.
Speaking at the ribbon cutting were Ontario Minister of Health and Long-term Care Deb Matthews , Brantford MPP Dave Levac, Peter Szota, Executive Director of GRCHC and Brantford Mayor Chris Friel.
Negotiations for the project initially began in 2006 and involved coordinating many pieces, including moving into an interim space a few doors away. The opening was a tremendous success!
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National Day of Action for Refugee Health
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Hundreds of people, including health providers and activists from CHCs, AHACs, NPLCs and CFHTs, gathered at rallies in Ontario cities to call on the federal government to stop the cuts to refugee healthcare.
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Didn't make it out to a rally? Take 2 minutes to send a message to federal leaders and the Ontario Premier on this issue.
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Early bird deadline approaching
Health promotion and community development professional learning event
This is your annual dynamic learning event to build new thinking and strategies; share tools, methods and good practices; and achieve and demonstrate results for people and community-centred health and wellbeing.
Take advantage of early bird rates until June 24th!
More information and registration
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Consultations on next Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy starting this summer
The Ontario government will be announcing shortly plans to hold community consultations this summer to seek public input into Ontario's next Poverty Reduction Strategy, 2013-2018. The 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction will be releasing a short document outlining key asks that should be helpful in preparing for your community meeting.
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MOHLTC issues call for applications for Community Physiotherapy Clinic Services
Locations where clinic-based services physio are currently provided can apply for funding to continue to deliver those services. In addition, new physio clinic locations in more communities will be funded to improve geographic access to eligible Ontarians.
Read yesterday's announcement
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Note of clarification
Healthy Communities Fund call for proposals
This MOHLTC call for proposals is not available directly for individual AOHC members - it is only available for organizations who were invited to apply. We apologize for any confusion created by inclusion of this information in last week's bulletin.
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| L'AGA du CSCE : un réel succès!
Plus de 165 invités ont assisté, le mercredi 12 juin 2013, à la vingt-troisième assemblée générale annuelle du Centre de santé communautaire de l'Estrie (CSCE) qui se tenait au Centre NAV de Cornwall.
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| Prize winners announced from Working Better Together conference
More prizes have been handed out to attendees from the Working Better Together conference that took place earlier this month.
We are happy to announce the following winners:
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Trade Show Passport - Trip for two to Niagara Falls: Rose Marie Trudeau, Noojmowin Teg Health Centre
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Education and Capacity Booth Book Draw - "Make Light Work - In Groups": Melanie Butler, De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health Centre
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Education and Capacity Booth Book Draw - "The Spirit Level - Why Equality is Better for Everyone": Kim Cook, Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities
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| Considering setting up a dental suite?
If you have new capital funding and are starting your construction plans you should consider setting aside a room for 1-2 dental operatories with the correct wiring and plumbing. Contact Jacquie Maund at AOHC for a list of dental equipment needed and their cost, plus space requirements. This material is provided by Toronto Public Health based on fitting out their dental suites. A list of useful articles and resources for setting up a publicly funded dental suite is also available.
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Do you want to "grow your own" nurse practitioner?
Your centre/clinic may be interested in this government program to help you fill vacancies among NP positions. The program allows you to use Ministry funds to sponsor a local RN to obtain his/her NP education. The funding is used to pay the RN's salary while in school, and in exchange the new NP must agree to a return of service commitment to your centre/clinic.
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| Privacy: The perfect storm
When personal secrets and sensitive information get shared without the appropriate consent structure in place, you just know you're going to be hit with the perfect storm!
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Improving primary healthcare through collaboration
The existing and future health care needs of the Canadian population are largely about managing chronic conditions. Better management of patients with chronic conditions in the primary care system can reduce the burden in the more costly acute or hospital care system. If the enhanced use of interprofessional primary care (IPC) teams can be shown to be cost-effective, they should become the preferred model of care for chronic conditions in all provinces and territories.
The Conference Board of Canada has released Briefing 3 - Measuring the Missed Opportunity which aims to assess whether IPC teams could become a central component of a health care services delivery strategy for chronic conditions. It provides the results of an empirical analysis of the impact of enhanced IPC teams on the health and economic burden of Type 2 diabetes and depression in Canada.
Other briefings in the Improving Primary Health Care Through Collaboration series:
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