What's New
February 2012
The Minto-Mapleton Family Health Team continues to participate in the Ministry funded “STOP with FHT’s” program. This program is evaluating the effectiveness of offering counseling support and free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) to our patients. Funding for this program will continue until the Spring of 2013. Available NRT include the Nicoderm patch, lozenge, inhaler or gum.
Since beginning this project in August, 2011, we have seen 90 patients enroll and our success rate remains quite high. Our smoking cessation program also includes access to Champix and Wellbutrin (Zyban).
Linda Wright has been involved with this program since November. “My experience thus far with this program has been a very good one. What makes this program good?
o positive, informative counselors
o updated information on the patch system
o customize it so that it can work for you
o no cost for program or patches
I am cautiously optimistic that this will be the year I start my new life without tobacco. I have made it 10 weeks so far. If there is a will and a good back up system, I believe there is a way.”
For more information please contact the Minto-Mapleton FHT office at 519-638-2110.
Since beginning this project in August, 2011, we have seen 90 patients enroll and our success rate remains quite high. Our smoking cessation program also includes access to Champix and Wellbutrin (Zyban).
Linda Wright has been involved with this program since November. “My experience thus far with this program has been a very good one. What makes this program good?
o positive, informative counselors
o updated information on the patch system
o customize it so that it can work for you
o no cost for program or patches
I am cautiously optimistic that this will be the year I start my new life without tobacco. I have made it 10 weeks so far. If there is a will and a good back up system, I believe there is a way.”
For more information please contact the Minto-Mapleton FHT office at 519-638-2110.
January 2012
The Minto-Mapleton Family Health Team is pleased to announce the Wellington Reproductive Psychiatry Program. The FHT welcomes Dr. Vivian Polak who is offering reproductive psychiatry services to adult patients who are pregnant or post-partum (within the first year after delivery). This also includes men, as men get post-partum depression and anxiety disorders. Dr. Polak also sees patients who are suffering with pregnancy loss (miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth) and with fertility difficulties. Dr. Polak travels to the Drayton site once per week and is also available for consultation and follow-up using the videoconferencing system. Patients who would like to access this program must speak to their physician or Nurse Practitioner with the FHT for a referral. This program is also being offered in neighbouring Family Health Teams including the Mount Forest FHT, the Upper Grand FHT and the East Wellington FHT. This means that if you are seeing Dr. Polak by telemedicine (videoconference), we can arrange for you to see Dr. Polak from the system closest to your home. For more information, please contact the Minto-Mapleton FHT office at 519-638-2110.
September 2011
Representatives of the Rural Wellington hosptials, Family Health Teams in Wellington, the Community Care Access Centre and Trellis Mental Health and Developmental Services formally signed an agreement or Memorandum of Understanding aimed at working together in partnership to improve health services in our rural communities. The partners have created a working group called the "Rural Health Care of Tomorrow". The Working Group looks forward to keeping the community updated on its progress.
May 2011
The Family Health Team (FHT) launched a new group this spring called Chronic Disease Self-Management Program where patients of the FHT are introduced to a useful self-management tool with the goal of increasing healthy behaviours. Shown in the picture are: high school co-op student Caitlyn Pirker, Paula Trinier, Registered Dietitian, Vicky LaForge, Registered Nurse and a few of our Program participants. Contact the FHT Office at 519-638-2110 in Drayton or at 519-327-4777 in Clifford, if you are interested in learning more about our programs and services.
November 2010
Dr. Donald, his staff, and staff of the Family Health Team are starting a new Quality Improvement Project aimed at improving the management and control of hypertension. Over the next several months, our goal is to increase the number of patients who have been screened for hypertension and have a documented blood pressure recorded in their patient record. For those patients diagnosed with hypertension, our aim is to ensure that their blood pressures are controlled. If you are a patient of Dr. Donald's and interested in more information about this initiative, give us a call. Pictured below: Dr. Christopher Donald (in front), and his team members working on the project.
August 5, 2010
Looking for a Primary Care Practitioner? Nurse Practitioner, Jodi Colwill, working in collaboration with Dr. Christine Peterkin, is now accepting patients at the Mapleton Health Centre. Anyone who does not have a family physician in Minto-Mapleton and who is seeking the services of a nurse practitioner, should call the Mapleton Health Centre in Drayton at 519-638-3088. Beginning in September, 2010, Jodi will begin seeing new patients at the Drayton site.
July 2010
The Family Health Team welcomes some new staff to the Family Health Team's Clifford site.
Pictured below are: (from left to right): Pam Turton, Registered Nurse, Kelly Gillespie, Medical Receptionist, Katherine Lessard, Nurse Practitioner student and Melissa Wright, Nurse Practitioner.
Kelly and Katherine are new staff to the FHT. Kelly is working full-time at the Clifford site and Katherine is currently completing her Nurse Practitioner program at McMaster University.
Pictured below are: (from left to right): Pam Turton, Registered Nurse, Kelly Gillespie, Medical Receptionist, Katherine Lessard, Nurse Practitioner student and Melissa Wright, Nurse Practitioner.
Kelly and Katherine are new staff to the FHT. Kelly is working full-time at the Clifford site and Katherine is currently completing her Nurse Practitioner program at McMaster University.
November 2009
Need more information about H1N1 and this year's flu season? We encourage patients and health care providers to stay up to date on the latest events of H1N1 and seasonal flu by regularly checking out the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit's website: www.wdghu.org and visit the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's website: www.ontario.ca/flu
November 2009
The Minto-Mapleton FHT has been approved as one of 20 Physician Assistant Demonstration Projects in Family Health Teams across the province. The project is a two year pilot aimed at determining how Physician Assistants can best integrate into primary care. Once recruited, the Physician Assistant will work under the supervision of Dr. Michael Kam at the Mapleton Health Centre. The FHT has until March 31, 2010 to recruit a certified Physician Assistant. A comprehensive evaluation strategy is part of this new funding initiative.
