Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region:
Primary Care Team
About us
The Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region primary care team works to implement the Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network Primary Care Strategy. The strategy work is focused in three key areas: service integration, system efficiency and improving access and quality of care for patients. It is being operationalized through five priority project areas and Health Link:
- Access, attachment and continuity for primary care – ensure all residents have access to a primary care provider (family physician or nurse practitioner) and receive care in a timely and continuous fashion
- Access to interprofessional teams – improve access to inter-professional teams for patients who need it
- Access to specialist consultations – improve and streamline patients’ access to specialist consultations
- Discharge planning – improve quality and timeliness of hospital discharge summaries and transitions of care more generally
- Secure communication – expand secure communication platforms between providers and explore secure communication options between providers and patients
- Health Link – improve coordination of care for patients with complex health needs
The Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region primary care team supports family physicians, primary care providers and health sector leaders, to help enable their leadership in influencing the development and implementation of local initiatives which support the key areas of the strategy. The team also supports adoption by primary care providers of initiatives, programs and services that benefit them and their patients.
Meet the Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region Primary Care Team
- Curtis Handford, Primary Care Clinical Lead
- Mary Eastwood, Primary Care Sub-Region Manager
- Lara McLachlan, Health Link Project Manager
- Dorothy Wedel, Primary Care Project Manager
- Art Austriaco, Administrative Assistant
Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region Primary Care Groups
Primary and Community Care Committee – PCCC
Primary and Community Care Committees (PCCC) have been established in each sub-region to empower family physician and primary care leaders in advancing the integration of primary care in each sub-region within the Toronto Central LHIN. The Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region's PCCC aims to build a collaborative network of primary care clinicians and their organizations within the Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region geography. The PCCC champions the development of a patient-centered local primary health care system in order to improve patient experience and clinical outcomes. The PCCC approves an annual sub-region work plan including recommendations to the Toronto Central LHIN on strategies and initiatives to improve integration and patient outcomes within the Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region. The PCCC also oversees and monitors the implementation and performance of local or regional change initiatives.
Meet your Mid-East PCCC:
| Name | Organization |
|---|---|
| Dr. Curtis Handford (Chair) | Primary Care Clinical Lead, Mid East Toronto Sub-Region |
| Linda Jackson | Executive Director, St. Michael's Hospital Academic Family Health Team/Hospital Resource Parter representative |
| Ashnoor Rahim | Vice-President, Community Care Unit, WoodGreen |
| Karen O'Connor | Director of Operations, LOFT |
| Sally McMackin | Director, Mid-East Region at Toronto Central Local Health Integrated Network - Home & Community Care |
| Dr. Karen Weyman | Chief, Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital Academic Family Health Tream |
| Dr. Cam Inch | Front Frederick Family Health Group |
| Dr. Sharon Gazeley | Regent Park Community Health Centre |
| Dr. Laura Pripstein | Medical Director, Sherbourne Health Centre Family Health Team |
| Dr. Farah Ali | Queen’s Quay Medical Centre Family Health Organization |
| Julie Vandahl | Nurse Practitioner, Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre |
| Mary Eastwood | Primary Care Manager, Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region |
| Dorothy Wedel | Primary Care Project Manager, Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region |
| Lara McLachlan | Health Link Project Manager, Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region |
| Gillian Bone | Sub-Region Director, Health System Strategy, Integration and Planning, Toronto Centre Local Health Integration Network |
| Dr. Andrew Bond | Medical Director, Inner City Health Associates |
Mid-East Advisory Table
The Mid-East Advisory Table brings together leadership from across a variety of sectors, representing populations and geographies for Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region to provide a broad perspective and advance ideas through organizational support and leadership which further the health and social goals of the sub-region. The advisory table looks to identify current and emerging issues using a population lens and then develop recommendations focused on the resolution of local system issues including the creation of partnerships and pathways to care that address the unmet needs of people in the Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region.
- Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region - Primary Care Team
- Women’s Health in Women’s Hands
- Regent Park Community Health Centre
- Anishnawbe Health Toronto
- Sherbourne Health Centre
- St Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team
- Inner City Family Health Team
- Inner City Health Associates
- South Riverdale Community Health Centre
- Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network
- WoodGreen
- Bridgepoint Hospital
- Fred Victor Centre
- Gerstein Centre
- Cota
- Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office
- Street Health
- Centres d’Accueil Heritage
- Yonge St. Mission
- Mainstay Housing
- The Neighbourhood Group
- Person with Lived Experience
- Toronto Community Housing
- Toronto Public Health
- LOFT
Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region Access, Attachment and Continuity (AA&C) Working Group
The Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region Access, Attachment and Continuity (AA&C) Working Group brings together leadership from across a variety of sectors, who serve the 19-29 year old demographic within the sub-region. The AA&C working group provides a broad perspective to identify needs and advance ideas on how to improve issues around attachment, access and continuity for young adults in the Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region. The working group aims to provide strategic perspective on current and emerging issues, encourage and facilitate collaborative problem solving and develop recommendations focused on increasing access, attachment and continuity in primary care for the young adults living within the sub-region. The current strategic focus of the group is on raising awareness of the importance of a regular primary care provider and understanding of how to locate a provider, communicating access points for mental health and addictions services and transitioning from youth-specific services to ongoing primary care services.
| Name | Organization |
|---|---|
| Dr. Curtis Handford | Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region - Primary Care Team |
| Mary Eastwood | Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region - Primary Care Team |
| Lara McLachlan | Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region - Primary Care Team |
| Dorothy Wedel | Mid-East Toronto Sub-Region - Primary Care Team |
| Allan MacDonald | Ryerson University |
| Carolina Berinstein | Sherbourne Health Centre |
| Elisa Simpson | Covenant House |
| Samantha Wagman | St. Michael's Hospital Academic Family Health Team |
| Robin Richardson | Health Care Connect - Toronto Central LHIN |
| Clare Nobbs | Egale |
| Jeanie Son | Yonge Street Mission |
| Lisa King | Toronto Public Health |
| Cheryl Dobinson | Planned Parenthood |
| Mindy Xu | Ryerson University |
| Sarah Hobbs | Planned Parenthood |
| June Zhang | Yonge Street Mission |
