Learning about the fab Best Care cardiorespiratory program (argi.on.ca) & how #RespiratoryTherapists make a huge difference in #PrimaryCare . 🙏Madonna Ferrone for sharing & RTSO for organizing.

#RespiratoryTherapy #RTWeek2023 #RCWeek2023 Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists

'People want timely care, close to home, delivered by a primary-care clinician who knows them, stands up for them, coordinates their care and helps them meet their health goals. Let’s design care around those priorities.' Maggie Keresteci 🇨🇦 Tara Kiran healthydebate.ca/2023/03/topic/…

World COPD Day and Best Care in Primary Care ⁦Cathy Faulds⁩ ⁦Madonna Ferrone⁩ youtu.be/e7Y28jABa_8

Happy Respiratory Therapy Week to all RRTs across Ontario!!

#RTWeek2022 #RTSO50 #BreathingLifeIntoOntarians

900,000 Ontarians live with COPD, accounting for 24% of hospitalizations and 24% of ER visits. Our health system needs innovative solutions to preserve hospital capacity and deliver quality care. Best Care is that solution. 
 
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Primary care is not just about timely access to your primary provider but it is also timely and coordinated access to team members who are able to assist your primary care provider. Two quick stories to illustrate

Congrats to our CRRN colleagues: Drs Teresa To, Padmaja Subbarao and Min Hyung for receiving the 2022 Michelle Harkness Mentorship Awards Canadian Thoracic Society AllerGen Network Lung Health Foundation CIHR-ICRH / L'ISCR des IRSC Asthma.ca Asthma Surveillance Ontario Ministry of Health ICES The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
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A spokesperson for Health Minister Christine Elliott says the circuit breaker proposed by Ontario's Science Table 'focused on the assumption that #Omicron had the same severity as Delta and that as a result, ICU occupancy would rise substantially.'
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Chatham-Kent Health Alliance begins patient transfers as COVID-19 numbers surge

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It can be scary finding out that you were exposed to #COVID19 .

If you’re fully vaccinated, asymptomatic & the case is outside your household, self-monitor for 10 days. Do not visit anyone at high-risk of severe illness for 10 days from your last exposure. Ontario.ca/exposed

Shared purpose has been a key pillar of success in the spread and scale of the #BestCareCOPD program in primary care in Ontario. More than 400 primary care physicians improving the quality of patients lives and health system performance in collaboration with certified educators.

1 year ago I sat at the table and successfully advocated for funding this program to the leadership @SouthWestLHIN. The evidence is their. This meets all the criteria of Quadruple Aim. Its built into OHT planning. @brucelauckner Christine Elliott time to make a decision.

Why integrated care matters - because #familyphysicians cannot know everything. We need help to learn, keep up to date, know best practices. Integrated RT in clinic as part of Christopher Licskai's #bestcareCOPD program offers to review PFT with me

The primary care physician manages their patient in their practice with program support. The program has a peer to peer spread and scale approach across team members of all professional designations. docs know they deliver high quality care, we measure it at every visit

@fauldsca @dr_lorraine Lee Fairclough ChoosingWiselyCanada Dr. Sarah Newbery 💙💛 Jon Johnsen Sault Area Hospital Health Quality Ontario Lisa We have completed an RCT currently under review by Primary Care Respiratory Medicine where we have demonstrated a 46% reduction in hospitalization and 2/3 reduction in ED visits with team management in primary care. Transformative innovation!! Meets HQO program standards

Was The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) today with Dr. Teresa To presenting asthma indicators....quote from Peter Drucker.....if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it! Teresa To

proud to be part of this innovative and experienced group...go lung health #PCAP Christopher Licskai

This: ' ...the system should give patients easy and secure access to their electronic access health records.'

100%! I say this as a health care provider AND as a patient!
Dr. Brian Goldman

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