Central Lambton Family Health Team

News Release Two Emergency Physicians for CEEH

admin — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:25:27 +0000

Dr. Mark Taylor, Interim Chief of Professional Staff at Bluewater Health is pleased to announce that Dr. Tanvir Ahmed and Dr. Rajvinder Hanspal have expressed their intent to join the local medical community as Emergency Physicians at Charlotte Englehart Hospital (CEEH) of Bluewater Health. Dr. Ahmed has been providing some locum shifts in Petrolia and is expected to be working full-time in the Emergency Department beginning in June 2012. Dr. Hanspal is expected to start work in mid-September 2012.

Central Lambton Health Team appoints Executive Director

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:15:48 +0000

Central Lambton Health Team appoints Executive Director Click Here to Download Press Release.

CLFHT hires Greg Layne as the first Nurse Practitioner for the new CLFHT

admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:15:10 +0000

CLFHT hires Greg Layne as the first Nurse Practitioner for the new CLFHT. Click Here to download article.

Press Release

admin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:14:40 +0000

PETROLIA, ON. The Central Lambton Family Health Team (FHT) announced to today that it has received funding for Phase 1 of its operation from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. The money will enable the FHT to begin staffing and office set up.

Mary-Pat Gleeson, Chair of the Board of the Central Lambton Family Health Team, said, “This is great news and underscores the Ministry’s support of our communities’ ongoing efforts to provide residents with the best care possible. The Family Health Team will focus on prevention and chronic disease management as well as provide excellent primary care.”

The Central Lambton Family Health Team will consist of seven family physicians and seven allied healthcare professionals including nurse practioners, nurses, a dietician, a social worker and a pharmacist. As the FHT continues to grow additional allied healthcare professionals and doctors will be included. The Board recently placed advertisements in local papers for these positions and received over 90 applications, many of which came from Central Lambton County and adjacent communities.

Further updates and information relating to the Central Family Health Team and issues around healthcare are available on our website: www.centrallambtonfamilyhealthteam.com Contact: Mary-Pat Gleeson, 519-882-1718

Improving Rural And Northern Health Care McGuinty Government Seeking Input To Address Unique Health Care Challenges

admin — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:13:55 +0000

Ontarians are being asked to provide their feedback on how to provide the best access to quality health care services in rural and northern areas of the province.   Specifically, Ontarians are invited to respond to recommendations made by the Rural and Northern Health Care Panel. There are a number of ways that the public can make its views known – including online atwww.ontario.ca/ruralnorthernhealth, by phone and in-person at roundtable discussions in rural communities across the province.

The roundtable discussions will take place throughout the province including Temiskaming Shores (New Liskeard), Burford, Hanover, Drayton, Shelburne, Petrolia, Renfrew, Picton, Haliburton, Orillia and Dryden. Residents can register to participate in these sessions at www.ontario.ca/ruralnorthernhealth.

Improving access to health care services in rural and northern Ontario is part of the province’s Open Ontario plan to ensure quality health care services for all patients while improving accountability.

QUOTES
“All Ontarians expect and deserve access to quality healthcare, regardless of where they live. That’s why, as part of our plan, we’re looking for input from Ontarians on the best way to make sure that those living in rural and northern communities get the care they need, when they need it, as close to home as possible.”  – Liz Sandals, Parliamentary Assistant, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care and Co-Lead for the Rural and Northern Health Care Consultations

“The Rural and Northern Health Care Panel has done a tremendous job in laying out a vision for rural and northern health care. We’re now looking to Ontarians to help fully develop this into a framework that meets the unique needs and challenges of rural and northern communities.”  - Rick Johnson, MPP for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock and Co-Lead for the Rural and Northern Health Care Consultations

QUICK FACTS

More than 1.9 million Ontarians live in rural, remote and northern areas of
the province.
The government has created more than 80 new Family Health Teams in rural and northern Ontario.
When the Northern Ontario School of Medicine opened in September 2005, it became the first new medical school in Canada in over 30 years.

LEARN MORE
Find out more about the Rural and Northern Health Care Report.  Find out how you can get involved in the consultations.

Rural And Northern Health Care Consultations

Members of the media: Neala Barton, 416-327-4388  Minister’s Office

David Jensen, 416-314-6197  Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care  ontario.ca/health-news

Rural and Northern Health Care Framework

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:12:55 +0000

Ensuring rural and northern Ontarians have access to health care, as close to home as possible is a key priority for the Ontario government. As such, the government formed a Rural and Northern Health Care Panel as stage one of the development of a rural and northern health care framework. The mandate of this panel was to identify a vision, strategic directions and principles to assist government and Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) in ensuring quality of care as defined by access to care in rural and northern communities. The panel has completed their work and submitted their report to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care. The report is now available to the public.

As part of stage two for the development of a rural and northern health care framework, the government wants to hear from the public. The government will be engaging in a series of public regional round table discussions across Ontario and online consultations beginning in January. Specific details on how you can participate will be available in early January.

The full report may be downloaded by clicking here.

Municipalities support $36,000 location study for central Lambton FHT

admin — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:11:14 +0000

Municipalities support $36,000 location study for central Lambton FHT

PETROLIA – Petrolia Topic Staff

Central Lambton County municipalities have come to the plate with $35,300 to help support the creation of the central Lambton Family Health Team (FHT), to be located in Petrolia.

Area municipalities have pledged financial support towards a $36,000 facility study that will look at location options for housing doctors, allied health care professionals and support staff within a single FHT site.

The location study has begun and options should be presented to an FHT steering committee before the end of the year.

Petrolia Mayor John McCharles said “This is great news for our doctors and the health of the central Lambton community. I am proud to be working with area municipalities and the mayors and councils. This is teamwork at its best.” The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care announced approval for an FHT in Petrolia earlier this spring and the steering committee was created to move the project forward. The committee is planning to have the central Lambton FHT operational by 2011 or 2012 and the facility will serve some 20,000 county residents.

Contributing to the study are Petrolia $10,000; Enniskillen Township $10,000; Plympton-Wyoming $5,000; St. Clair Township $4,500; Brooke-Alvinston Township $3,000; Oil Springs $1,800; and Dawn-Euphemia Township $1,000