Save-the-Date: Upcoming Events

November 20 & 21, 2017 (PLEASE RSVP)

Patient Medical Home In Oceanside

(3 OPTIONS - see item PMH - NEXT STEPS below in newsletter)

DINNER Option #1: Monday, November 20, 2017

BREAKFAST Option #2: Tuesday, November 21, 2017

LUNCH Option #3: Tuesday, November 21, 2017

PLEASE RSVP to the Amber @ oceansideadmin@divisionsbc.ca. For more information contact Tina Biello, PMH Project Manager at tbiello@divisionsbc.ca

Division of Family Practice Holiday Mixer - December, 2017
Please join us for some seasons greetins’ and tasy eatins’ at the Qualicum Beach Inn.  Date, time and more details to be announced in an invitation very soon.
 

February 13, 2018
Maternity CME Series: “But I don’t do maternity care!  Workshops for Family Physicians who don’t do deliveries” - Module #1 Early Prenatal Care
The modules cover key prenatal and postpartum care, review case examples, and provide resources that facilitate knowledge application.  To maximize informal mentorship, network building, and referral opportunities, local family physicians who provide full-spectrum maternity care facilitate the discussions. 
6:00-9:00pm. Location: The Beach Club Resort
 

March 7, 2018
Maternity CME Series: “But I don’t do maternity care!  Workshops for Family Physicians who don’t do deliveries” - Module #2 Initial Postpartum Care
The modules cover key prenatal and postpartum care, review case examples, and provide resources that facilitate knowledge application.  To maximize informal mentorship, network building, and referral opportunities, local family physicians who provide full-spectrum maternity care facilitate the discussions. 
6:00-9:00pm. Location: Pheasant Glen Golf Resort
 

Contact Amber @ oceansideadmin@divisionsbc.ca for more information.

PAM (Patent Attachment Mechanism) Up and Running

We are pleased to announce that our Patient Attachment Mechanism (PAM) has been launched, and this online self-registry for patients with no family doctor or nurse practitioner in the area has already attached 125 patients in the Oceanside area in the first week after launch.  This sellf-registry replaces the list that has been taken in the past at the Oceanside Health Centre for patients to get care from health practitioners at the OHC.  All 700 patients on that list had been completely referred to area physicians before launch, as well.

If you find you have room in your practice for any more patients, please do not hesitate to contact Sharon Todd, Oceanside Division of Family Practice Operations and Recruitment Co-ordinator (250-937-0611).  The process is quick and easy, and we are getting very fast response from patients that we contact.  

Questions?  Please contact Sharon Todd (250-937-0611) for more information.  All medical offices in Oceanside were visited by Sharon in the past few weeks, and received information, color flyers to display, and a takeaway brochure for patients containing the URL for the self-registry and other ways to access it,

Locums

We currently the following locum requests outstanding;

Dr. Colin Duncan
Ferntree Medical Clinic  November 27-December 4, 2017 
Wolfe EMR
Phone: 250-752-6568,
or contact Sharon Todd

Dr. Clair Biglow
Qualicum Beach Associates Clinic  December 4-18, 2017  MedAccess
Phone: 250-594-5436,
or contact Sharon Todd

Dr. David Owen
Weld Street Clinic  2 weeks in July, 2018 
contact Sharon Todd

Dr. Mirka Owen
Parksville Medical Clinic 2 weeks in July, 2018 MedAccess
contact Sharon Todd

Please do contact Sharon Todd (250-937-0611) if you have any locum requests, including those for holidays next year - get them in early!

PATIENT MEDICAL HOME IN OCEANSIDE – NEXT STEPS

HOSTED BY JEFF MALMGREN AND TINA BIELLO

Following up on our member meeting of September 27, we’re working to further develop the Patient Medical Home model with the input we’ve received. We’re planning a series of roundtable conversations later this month, and hope that you’ll be able to attend one to let us know what you think. You’ll get the revised model next week, in the meantime please think about which of the three sessions will work best for you.

OPTION #1: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2017 (DINNER)
QUALICUM BEACH INN
2690 ISLAND HWY WEST, QUALICUM BEACH
6:30PM - 8:00PM (dinner served at 6:30)
Please RSVP with your dinner choice:
RED LENTIL AND TURMERIC POTATO DAL (coconut rice,
curried tamarind tomato sauce, coconut syrup flat bread, yogurt drizzle)
HUNTER CHICKEN (red jacket mashed potato, seasonal vegetables,
red pepper - mushroom au jus)
LEMON DILL ENCRUSTED PANKO SALMON (red jacket potato salad,
green bean tempura, white balsamic vinaigrette)
Dessert, Coffee, Tea

OPTION #2: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2017 (BREAKFAST)
QUALICUM BEACH INN
2690 ISLAND HWY WEST, QUALICUM BEACH
7:30AM - 9:00AM (breakfast served at 7:30)
Please RSVP with your breakfast choice:
CVIEW TRADITIONAL BREAKFAST (Choose from bacon,
black forest ham, farmer’s sausage, two eggs, potato wedges,
toast selection)
FORNO BAKED HALF AVOCADO AND EGG WHITES
(scrambled egg whites, stuffed avocado with a green lentil cilantro salsa,
toast selection)
BERRY PARFAIT WITH SEASONAL FRUIT CUP (vanilla bean yogurt,
streusel mixture, raspberry coulis)
Coffee & Tea

OPTION #3: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2017 (LUNCH)
QUALITY BAYSIDE RESORT
240 DOGWOOD ST, PARKSVILLE
11:30AM - 1:00PM (lunch served at 11:30)
SOUP, ASSORTED SANDWICHES, VEGGIE & DIP, COOKIES, COFFEE & TEA

When RSVPing to your event option please indicate your meal
preferences and any dietary restrictions or requirements.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!

Pathways Specialist Referral Service launching Dec 1

Oceanside Divsion GPs and health practitioners will soon be or may already have received access to the Pathways specialist referral resource. This implementation is looking to launch December 1 in Oceanside.

What is Pathways?
Pathways is an online resource that allows GPs and their office staff to quickly access current and accurate referral information, including wait times and areas of expertise, for specialists and specialty clinics. In addition, Pathways makes available hundreds of patient and physician resources that are categorized and searchable. Access to Pathways is currently limited to GPs and/or NPs (and their staff) within British Columbia who are members of a Division of Family Practice, as well as specialists who fall within the geographic boundaries of these Divisions.

Pathways was first developed by the Fraser Northwest Division as a tool that could help improve patient referrals made by GPs to specialists and specialty clinics. It was then adopted as a pilot project by GPSC in 2014 and rolled out to 12 Divisions, including Vancouver, all Divisions in the Fraser Health catchment area, and Kootenay Boundary. After demonstrating the success of Pathways in these Divisions, GPSC further authorized expansion of Pathways across the province in 2015, which is ongoing. The entire process has been directed and led by physicians, from initial conception through project implementation, and this is still the case today.

The key goals of Pathways include:

• Allowing GPs to identify the most appropriate specialists with shorter wait times.
• Simplify the patient referral process by easily identifying specific areas of practice offered by each specialist and clinic.
• Providing GPs with the most up-to-date information possible to ensure appropriateness of referrals.
• Decreasing the incidence of re-referrals, thereby increasing the efficiency of patient care.
• Access is limited to GPs that are members of a Division of Family Practice, their medical office staff, and to specialists practicing within those respective Divisions.

The Nanaimo Pathways administrator, Janice Schmidt,  is already connecting with Oceanside specialists, and when the system is ready for launch, your office will be contacted by the Oceanside Division to provide training and information for both yourselves and your office staff.   Please do feel free in the meantime to contact either Janice or Sharon Todd for more information or to answer any questons you may have.

Local Health Data Snapshot

We've attached some comprehensive slides of the local area's health profile, as well as primary and community care profiles - a lot of very interesting information in there!

Local Health Area Profile - District 69

Primary Community Care Profile - District 69

Protea Medical Support Services Available

To all doctors of Parksville-Qualicum,

We are pleased to announce that the following support services will be available at our clinic for your patients:

Dr. Menezes – General Surgeon at Port Alberni Hospital
He will be available once per week, usually Wednesdays, starting on 18 October.           

Phone (250) 594-2256   Fax (250) 594-2469

Dr. Feyi – Internist from Internal Medicine Clinic in Port Alberni
He will be available once per month,  the last Friday of the month, next on 24 November.   

Phone (250) 724-8800 Fax (250) 724-8860

Dr. Lambiotte – Internist plus Gastroenterologist from Internal Medicine Clinic in Port Alberni
He will be available one Friday per month, starting on 6 October.      

Phone (250) 724-8800 Fax (250) 724-8860

Dr. Oluyede – Gynaecologist from Nanaimo
He will be available once per month, every third Friday, starting on 17 November.   

Phone (250) 591-9920 Fax (250) 591-9921

Dr. Reynolds – Endocrinologist from Victoria
He will be available approximately once every four months, next visit being on 4 December.      

Phone (250) 886-2124 Fax (886) 416-1381

Michelle – of Independent Respiratory Services
She will be available every Tuesday to attend to sleep apnoea and other lung problems.   

Phone 1-866-888-8011 Fax 1-877-965-6204

Please refer your patients to the above services, and spare them the discomfort of having to travel out of town!

Dr. P. D. Swart, 
Protea Medical Clinic
Suite 1a, 219 Fern Rd. West    

Tel (250) 752 3284

Qualicum Beach                                                                              Fax (250) 752 3519

Printable PDF version of this information for your office

RDN Recreation Services Masterplan

Last spring the Division participated in the RDN Recreation Services Masterplan Survey based on feedback from members on services they would love to see developed in our Oceanside Community and it was very well received.  Now is your opportunity to learn more and make your voice heard at a series of Open Houses November 20-23, 2017 that the RDN will be hosting in Oceanside. 

To find out more about the agenda, times and locations follow the magic link: http://www.getinvolved.rdn.ca/

For more information email Amber at oceansideadmin@divisionsbc.ca or by phone at 250-937-1640.

Home Health Monitoring Results

I would have liked to share some recent information about the numbers we are finding:


We know that HHM works; acute care evaluation of the first 180 clients who participated showed a $12,500 cost avoidance. We are in the process of again evaluating the acute care utilization of HHM heart failure clients and the results are the same; in the year before participating in HHM, clients have an average of 5 admissions which goes down to 0.9 for the year post monitoring. We are starting our COPD evaluation this month as this service was introduced less than 12 months ago.

Based on the cost avoidance of $12,500, our Telehealth Specialist Lisa Saffarek ran some numbers:

NRGH Admissions and HHM Referrals

• COPD Admissions 2016/17:353
• Heart Failure Admissions 2016/17: 280
• Referrals to HHM in 2016/17: 45
• % of Admissions Referred to HHM:7.11%
• Cost Avoidance if 25% of Admissions Referred and Participate in HHM: $  1,978,125.00
• COPD Admissions Apr-May 2017:
• 66 Heart Failure Admissions Apr-May 2017:44
• Referrals to HHM Apr-May 2017: 8
• % of Admissions Referred to HHM:7.27%
• Cost Avoidance if 25% of Admissions Referred and Participate in HHM $     343,750.00

I understand that not all Oceanside patients would access NRGH but the majority would.  How can we support leadership, physicians and clinicians in ensuring patients are referred to HHM so that they can stay out of hospital and ED?

Regards,

Catherine Gislason RN, BScN, GNCc
Clinical Integration Lead – Home Health Monitoring
Catherine.gislason@viha.ca
Ph.250 740-2873 ext 52873 or Cell 250 720-5491

Divisions Dispatch

View the latest Divisions Dispatch here

Find the latest news from the provincial team and complementary organizations in this issue of Divisions Dispatch. This newsletter is sent to local division physician leads, executive directors, coordinators, and admin staff; Doctors of BC staff involved in the GPSC and the Divisions of Family Practice initiative; and a number of Ministry of Health and health authority staff. We encourage divisions to share the newsletter, or the relevant items, with their members. 

Inside the November 14, 2017 issue
Read this issue

• Reminder of changes to GPSC incentive fees
• Division resources: Seniors health
• Funding available for specialists to attend CSC meetings
• Division members outline the history, challenges, and benefits of EMRs
• Register one division GP representative for Surgical Summit event on January 22, 2018
• DTO tech bulletin: A simple and significant step to better protect clinics from ransomware attacks
• Save the Date: BC Rural Health Conference on May 11-13, 2018
• Free QuitNow workshops for BC doctors treating tobacco dependence
• Free CME opportunity: Late effects of childhood cancers
• Partner publications
• Divisions in the News

GPSC Summary

Please find the October GPSC meeting summary here. This month’s key updates are about:

-        Opioid Overdose Public Health Emergency
-        Specialty care connecting to primary care networks
-        Information sharing within primary care networks
-        EMR interoperability
-        In-patient Care initiative

We encourage divisions to share this meeting summary, in whole or in part, with member doctors. As always, the GPSC would like to hear from you. If you have any comments or questions, please connect with your GPSC/Community Liaison or through gpsc@doctorsofbc.ca.

Divisions in the News

See what is going on in other divisions around BC:

https://www.divisionsbc.ca/provincial/inthenews