Celebrating the power of communities: Message from Executive Lead, Dr. Kim Morrison
It is well understood that people, together with their families, friends, neighbours and caregivers, provide the vast majority of care that keeps them well and healthy in their homes.
How Frontenac Paramedics’ Community Paramedicine program helps vulnerable residents stay well at home
The Frontenac Paramedics’ Community Paramedicine program embodies the FLA OHT People-Centered Health Home concept: It’s one way to support people to stay well by receiving care in the comfort of their homes.
Neighbours helping neighbours age well at home
Dr. Catherine Donnelly is a health services researcher, focused on team-based primary care with an emphasis on understanding how interprofessional primary care teams can support older adults and individuals with chronic conditions to live well in their neighbourhoods and communities.
Running Down the Path Forward for Ontario Health Teams
As short a month as February may be, the FLA OHT has many projects and initiatives moving full steam ahead. February celebrates many things including Black History Month, Valentine’s Day, Family Day, and Canadian Heart Month where attention is brought to the importance of cardiovascular health and steps that can be taken to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease.
Caring for children with respiratory symptoms this winter season
These are some examples of when to seek care. If you are not sure what to do, Health Connect Ontario has a symptom checker and the option to chat live with a nurse. You can also call 811 to speak with a nurse, available 24 hours a day.
Local program activates the community: Oasis
Most weeks you can find 83-year-old Pearl Larsen teaching an exercise class for her peers in the community room of her Homestead Land Holdings owned apartment building in the Bowling Green Complex in Kingston.
18 months of success!
It’s been an exhilarating ride as the FLA OHT has evolved over our first 18 months. Our rocket ship has a solid structure and is hurdling towards our North Star of the People-Centered Health Home.
Palliative Care Partnerships: exciting updates
As part of the FLA OHT’s ongoing commitment to working toward a more efficient, integrated and equitable health-care model, the Palliative Care Partnership is striving to have a connected, community-based program for palliative care.
Easing emergency department congestion: can communication help? KHSC teams up on campaign aimed at helping people make the best health-care choices.
In chaotic health-care environments, requests for communication support often happen when a problem needs to be communicated to the public – ‘We need a sign to let people know wait times are long.’
Digital Strategy
The Frontenac Lennox and Addington Ontario Health Team (FLA OHT) is committed to improving the digital health capabilities across the FLA region, which will directly improve patient-centered care, better connect frontline health-care providers, and support a system self-management.
Giving children and youth a voice in the redesign of the region’s health and wellness system
Karen Fleming, Executive Director of Maltby Centre, has a primary focus as a partner of the Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Ontario Health Team (FLA OHT) to ensure children and youth have equitable and integrated access to mental health and autism services in the region.
Sharing my health-care story: a patient advisor and member of the FLA OHT
I have lived in this part of Ontario for 25 years, stumbling my way through appointments and referrals, searching for clear diagnoses and effective treatment for multiple conditions. After long waits, each specialist examined a specific body part, not my wholeness as a human sitting in the same room.