Elgin Primary Care Alliance Update

July 2018

Elgin Primary Care Update from Co-Chairs

Dr. Kellie Scott & Dr. Melissa Tenbergen

*Contact us with any issues or questions*

SWPCA Website

Minutes and Slide Decks from our previous meetings are here .

Home and Community Care Coordinators in Elgin have recently been realigned to match your practice population! Please take time to meet with your Care Coordinator to discuss any patients you may have concerns about and le t them kno w the best way to communicate with you. Hopefully this will be a more efficient system as you will have one main Care Coordinator for most of your patients. (Some patients require specialized care by a different team). If you do not know who your Care Coordinator is, contact Rebecca Sutcliffe Rebecca.sutcliffe@lhins.on.ca

The Health Links Team has identified top ER users and may be reaching out to see how we can help support these patients and you as their primary care provider with a Coordinated Care Plan. If you have questions about Coordinated Care Planning , contact Diane Arsinijevic DArsenijevic@eefht.ca

Your patients, 15 years old and older, can now access free psychotherapy services

Bounce Back Ontario https://bouncebackontario.ca is now offering free skill-building program designed to help adults and youth 15+ manage symptoms of depression and anxiety. This is for mild to moderate depression and anxiety (ie. PHQ 9 score of < 21.)

2 Forms of Help
BounceBackToday online videos
BounceBackTelephone Coaching and Workbooks
Referral forms in Telus PS Suite form or Accuro form can be downloaded from the SW PCA web site, under EMR Resources: Mental Health and Addiction or by clicking here.

MAID NAVIGATOR

Welcome Julie Campbell NP as the new MAID Navigator for the SW LHIN

julie.campbell@lhins.on.ca

Please identify yourself to Julie if you are interested in being a MAID Assessor , MAID Provider or if you are a Conscientious Objector as she is compiling a confidential database. MAID Forms can be found on the SWPCA Website. Julie can help arrange mentorship opportunities if it is something you are interested in or help you access this care for a patient, whether you want to be directly involved or not.

London's Ambulatory Psychiatry

e-referral process on hold after your feedback!

On January 15, 2018, London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) in collaboration with St. Joseph’s Health Care London (St. Joseph’s) launched the Centralized Access Point (CAP) and e-referral form for Adult Ambulatory Mental Health Care Services. Extensive feedback post-launch from primary care practitioners identified that the e-referral form and platform did not align to the primary care work flow. As a result, LHSC and St. Joseph’s have agreed to eliminate the CAP e-referral process and return to fax as the primary method of accepting referrals . Additionally, in partnership with primary care the referral form will be redesigned to a simple, writable and printable PDF document. In addition, based on feedback from Primary Care, our goal is to have this form converted into usable formats for your electronic medical record (EMR). Until the referral form redesign is complete, the CAP e-referral process will remain operational. The CAP office will continue to accept referrals submitted using the current referral form via e-referral or fax to 519-667-6685 . Please access the e-referral form here. Additionally in the interim, the CAP office will continue to accept older versions of the referral forms for the Adult Ambulatory Mental Health Care programs via fax to the number noted above. Thanks to Dr. Gord Schacter, Dr. Jillian Toogood, and the St. Joseph's and LHSC teams for their collaboration on this.

Big White Wall is a free, anonymous peer support site you can direct your patients to. There are guides that monitor the posts. Please do not create your own login to check it out as this uses up a license and there are limited number for the initial launch - save them for patients! If you wish to login to check it out or show patients what it looks like they've created a login you can use for this purpose (please don't post anything using this login). Username: GreenhouseT Password: Beachball55. https://www.bigwhitewall.ca/v2/Home.aspx?ReturnUrl=/

Oxford-Elgin Child and Youth Centre (OECYC) is now Wellkin!! Familiarize yourself with the local lead mental health agency for children and youth in Elgin at their revised website:

WELLKIN WEBSITE

OntarioMD Privacy and Security Training!

Earn 2 Mainpro+ credits while learning how to protect your office and your patient information, and how to fulfill your obligations under the Personal Health Information Protection Act with OntarioMD’s new online Privacy and Security Training Module.

Save the dates for the fall:

Addiction Series (3 evenings focused on 3 common substances of abuse):

Opioids Sep 18

Cannabis Oct 24

Alcohol Nov 29

New Colon Cancer Screening (evening combined with PCA meeting):

November 22

MEETING SURVEY

We are no longer to provide food for PCA meetings. Help us plan future meetings....

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Dr. Kellie Scott & Dr. Melissa Tenbergen | Elgin Primary Care Alliance Co-Chairs kellie.d.scott@lhins.on.ca mtenbergen@elmdalefho.ca