"Improving our healthcare experience together – where people are heard, care is connected,
and whole health is possible for everyone"
Western Ontario Health Team September 2021 Activities
With the changing of the seasons, September was a natural time for us to check-in on our team and its priorities. There is an air of evolution in our work, and it is impacting the way we approach our challenges and identify our priorities. We look forward to engaging with you this season as we work together to improve our health care experience.
JOIN OUR IMPROVING CARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH CHF & COPD CO-DESIGN WORKSHOPS
Reminder to register for one of our Co-Design Workshops, bringing together people who live in Middlesex or London and have Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and/or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), their care partners (caregivers), and providers to work together to actively improve care in our community.

Two workshops are available to choose from:
  • Tuesday October 19: 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. OR;
  • Thursday October 21: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.


Contact Jacobi Elliot with any questions.
COORDINATING COUNCIL & OPERATIONS TEAM UPDATES
Mike McMahon, Executive Director at Thames Valley Family Health Team, was selected as the Health Care Provider Co-Chair at the September 23, 2021, Coordinating Council meeting. Mike has been re-selected, after sitting in this role since May 2019.

We welcomed three new members to the Operations Team in September: Mulugeta Chala, OHT Impact Fellow, will be focusing on Evaluation; Dr. Scott Laing, Masters of Health Administration Intern, will be focusing on opportunities for stream-lining referral processes; and Jalesa Martin, Masters Student, will start upon ethics approval, to observe our Operations Team, Patient, Client, Care Partner Council, and Co-Design Working Groups, to understand the facilitators and barriers to engaging diverse patients and caregivers in health system reform.

Call for Expression of Interest, In-kind Resource: Quality & Analytics Co-Lead

We are seeking a systems-thinker with quality improvement, evaluation, and analytics experience and expertise to work effectively with the Operations Team, Population Health Lead (Quality & Analytics Co-Lead), and Quality and Analytics Working Group to lead our overall evaluation work.

Please share the Quality & Analytics Co-Lead posting with anyone you feel would be interested. The deadline to apply is Friday, October 22, at 4:00 PM.

PATIENT, CLIENT, CARE PARTNER COUNCIL UPDATE
Members of the PCCP Council have been busy this past summer.

Four separate groups worked on different projects independently then reported back their findings to the Council, at its September meeting. The four topics that were investigated included:
 
  1. A review of the terms of reference
  2. A support group to the development of the Patient, Family and Care Partner Framework (submitted to the Ministry on September 30) 
  3. The development of a plan for the recruitment, orientation and on-boarding of new members
  4. Creation of a framework to reach out to other community and health focused groups in order to engage in a dialogue designed to inform and further the work of the PCCP Council and the OHT.
 
The four groups came up with some really innovative and exciting ideas and the Council is currently working on a work plan to achieve the goals of each committee.
CONGRATULATIONS TO NEW ONTARIO HEALTH TEAMS!
Congratulations to the eight new Ontario Health Teams, including our neighbours in Elgin and Grey-Bruce!
Get involved with Western OHT
Formalize your membership
We are happy to welcome 6 new members!

Becoming a member of the Western OHT signals support for the Western OHT’s work to improve our healthcare experience together, moving forward. There are four types of membership agreements: Healthcare Organization, Community Organization, Individual Member, Cluster.

If you would like to learn more about formalizing your membership, please reach out to Western OHT Lead Amber Alpaugh-Bishop: Amber.Alpaugh-Bishop@westernoht.ca
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We are thankful for the hard work of our Coordinating Council. View current membership list here.

If you have any questions, reach out at info@westernoht.ca.