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Connect Older Adults, Adults Living with Disabilities, and Caregivers to Community Support Services

Connecting patients to community-based supports is a critical component of patient care — but not always straightforward. That’s why AccessCSS.ca was developed in response to a need for simple, centralized, and coordinated referral process that fits within existing workflows and ensures that older adults, adults living with disabilities, and their caregivers can be connected efficiently to the care they need to stay healthy, independent, and safe at home. In response, AccessCSS has created...

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Hybrid CME: 2025 Ottawa Perinatal Mental Health Course, Oct. 17, 2025, University of Ottawa CPD

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The University of Ottawa, Office of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and the Department of Psychiatry

The focus of this year’s course is on Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders, with updates and clinical applications of the new Canadian Perinatal Mental Health guidelines. In live seminars, you will hear directly from perinatal mental health experts on how to identify, support, and treat pregnant and lactating individuals in today’s complex healthcare environment. The...

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In-Person CME: Endocrinology and Diabetes Update for Primary Care, Oct. 3rd 2025

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University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development and the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, TOH

1-day in person course in Endocrinology and Diabetes for primary care physicians. This popular course serves as a refresher of current guidelines and standards for the work-up and management of common endocrine disorders and diabetes therapies.

• October 3, 2025, 8 am – 4 pm,
• St. Elias Centre, 750 Ridgewood Ave, Ottawa ON K1V 6N1

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Professional Development & Resources

1. Updated: IPAC Guidelines for Health Care Settings. Public Health Ontario (PHO).  Routine Practices and Additional Precautions in All Health Care Settings, 3rd Edition resource. The update is limited to Appendix N: Clinical Syndromes/Conditions with Required Level of Precautions, which has been revised by the Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee on Infection Prevention and Control (PIDAC-IPC) to reflect current evidence and best practices.
   
   
2. For your patients: free, short online trainings
   
   

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Annual Reminder: Duty to report animal bites and animal contacts

To: Ottawa Physicians and Nurse Practitioners
Date: June 17, 2025
From: Dr. Monir Taha, Associate Medical Officer of Health
Subject: Duty to report animal bites and animal contacts

Dear Colleagues,  

Ottawa Public Health is reaching out with an annual reminder to partners to report all potential rabies exposures as required by Regulation 557 (COMMUNICABLE DISEASES – GENERAL) under the Health Protection and Promotion Act:   

2. (1) A physician, registered nurse in the extended class, veterinarian, police officer...

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