Integrating Physician Services in the Home: Evaluation of an innovative program

} Implementing a family practice consultation service for patients admitted to hospital with mental health issues might lead to fewer referrals to specialist services,

19 The MOVE program is a unique primary care program that offers an exercise program led by an FP alongside a kinesiologist, in which providers and patients actively participate

9 The Niagara Medical Group Family Health Team was successful in obtaining a grant to study and implement a family practice–based, holis- tic, case-managed approach to the

Program description Between 2000 and 2010, each family practice resident at St Joseph’s Health Centre Family Medicine Teaching Unit in Toronto, Ont, was assigned at least 1

st involvement Baseline demographic (I and C) Baseline demographic In-person surveyAllRA Quality of care assessment HRQoL, SF-36, instrumental activities of daily Living

One study, in which care was provided by family physicians, nurses, and social workers to elderly patients in their homes, demonstrated improved patient and care- giver

SETTING The addiction shared care program at St Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto, Ont, which is staffed by a nurse clinician, an addiction therapist, a clinical fellow, and 6

This project has demonstrated that willing family phy- sicians  can  successfully  deliver  effective  care  to  their  palliative  home  care  patients  on