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OPH’s Healthy Growth and Development Program: Update on Services to Parents in 2021

Home visits

OPH’s Healthy Growth and Development (HGD) long term home visiting program is still accepting referrals and visiting families from prenatal to entry to school. Priority is given to:

• Families experiencing mental health challenges
• Families with CAS involvement
• Families experiencing complex challenges, and
• Newcomers 

Support options include: in-person visits, videoconferencing, and telephone support.

Referrals can be made by completing the web referral or by faxing the form.

While...

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Physicians' Update LIVE! February 19th Broadcast for Physicians and Nurse Practitioners 

As Ottawa moves back to the Orange-Restrict zone of the province's COVID-19 response framework, the 8th edition of Physicians’ Update LIVE!  brings updates to phase one of the vaccine rollout.

Join Dr. Trevor Arnason, Associate Medical Officer of Health with OPH, as he reviews the local epi data and shares information on partnering with primary care for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

He will also briefly review updated guidance for prioritizing health-care workers for the COVID-19 vaccine,...

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Physicians’ Update LIVE! January 14th Broadcast for Physicians and Nurse Practitioners

With the provincial vaccine rollout well under way, the 6th edition of Physicians’ Update LIVE! focuses on common vaccine questions coming in at Ottawa Public Health. As local epi data reports the highest level of daily new cases, Ottawa remains in phase one of Ontario’s provincial vaccine prioritization and distribution plan, with a focus on staff and residents in long-term care homes and retirement homes

Dr. Trevor Arnason, Associate Medical Officer of Health with OPH, reviews the local epi data...

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Prompt Care Clinic at the Royal: New Online Service for Mental Health Support

Beginning on January 18, 2021, the Royal will open a new mental health clinic to provide specialized mental health services for adults with moderate illness, offering quick access to consultation and brief treatment by a multidisciplinary team, including collaborators from The Ottawa Hospital.

Primary care practitioners can refer patients who have moderate mental health symptoms that have not responded adequately to treatment at the primary care level to the Prompt Care Clinic.

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University of Ottawa’s Medical Bytes: CME Registration Open

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University of Ottawa’s Office of Continuing Professional Development

The Office of CPD is once again planning a series of webinars for family physicians focusing on new developments, guidelines, and practices. Webinars will be archived for access at practitioners’ convenience. Join live to have your questions answered by webinar speakers

• January 21   -   February 4   -   February 18   -   March 4
• 4:30pm - 5:30pm
• Online

• CFPC: 1.00 Mainpro+...

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