Current activities
The Western Ontario Health Team (WOHT) provides these updates to all sectors:
- February 2021
- Work on WOHT Purpose Statement and Values
- Hiring for Clinical Lead and Project Manager roles
- January 2021
- WOHT collaborative agreements with clusters (sectors)
- Year 1 population work to date
- December 2020
- Year 1 population data
- Finalizing governance structure
- Funding from member organizations will be coming in shortly; still awaiting OHT funding details from MOH
- OHT Lead Announcement – Amber Alpaugh-Bishop starts January 4, 2021
- November 2020
- Chronic COVID-19 management
- Generative discussion on digital health
- barriers
- what can we do on the provider side to make it easier for patients?
- what environmental factors enable or disable our ability to collaborate?
- what tangible steps can Western OHT take?
- October 2020
- Primary care report
- COVID-19 chronic care pathway and remote patient monitoring
- COVID-19 Assessment Centre changes
- September 2020 – governance and funding updates, health equity
- August 2020 – COVID care funding proposal to MOH, meeting with Ministry of Health reps
- July 2020 – work to date, organizing structures and frameworks, next steps
WOHT governance structure
Draft Governance Documents
- Governance principles
- Coordinating Council – Terms of Reference
- Consensus decision-making process
- Dispute resolution process
- Cluster representation process
- Governance working group – terms of reference
- Governance working group – briefing note, October 13, 2020
Coordinating Council |
Linda Crossley-Hauch – Co-chair (Patient Partner) Mike McMahon – Co-chair (Thames Valley Family Health Team) |
Linda Sibley – Addictions sector (Addictions Services Thames Valley) Alternate: Beth Mitchell – mental health sector (CMHA Middlesex) |
Judi Fisher – CSS sector (Cheshire London) Alternate: Carol Walters – CSS sector (Alzheimer Society London Middlesex) |
Dr. Vineet Nair – primary care (interim) Dr. Gord Schacter – primary care (interim) Alternates: Dr. Cathy Faulds, Dr. Daniel Pepe |
Scott Courtice – primary care organization (London Intercommunity Health Centre) Alternate: Gail McMahon – primary care organization (HealthZone NP Clinic) |
Daryl Nancekivell – Home and Community Care |
Drs. Gillian Kernaghan (St. Joseph’s) and Todd Stepaniuk (Middlesex Hospital Alliance) – hospital sector Alternate: tba |
Neal Roberts – EMS |
Anna Foat – Patient/Caregiver TBD – Patient/Caregiver |
TBD – long term care sector |
Dr. Chris Mackie – Middlesex London Health Unit |
Craig Cooper – City of London |
Bill Rayburn – County of Middlesex |
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Western Ontario Health – development phase
- All about Western Ontario Health – Powerpoint
- General Q&A about Western Ontario Health’s application to the Ministry
- Western Ontario Health operating structure