Marg Alfieri

Primary care cannot be the foundation of the health system without investing in the very people dedicated to it. Wage parody for all team members matters #forusforyou #FMF2024 @OntLiberal @OntarioNDP @OntarioGreens @PCOntario @ONgov

Important data! team based primary care is and will continue to be the foundation of a strong health system. Funding must follow, otherwise we’re building a house of cards

PHOTOS: Grand Bend Area Community Health Centre celebrates anniversary lakeshoreadvance.com/news/photos-gr…

Not surprising. 73% of Cdns open to major reform of health systems. Let’s do what hasn’t been done in Canada. Let’s design/implement a system of universal access to primary care - a health home for every neighbourhood. Other countries do this. We can too. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

How is it that spending $1 billion to get booze at the corner store, just a year earlier, is a higher priority for @fordnation than the basic healthcare services that Ontario families depend on?

Very well deserved award. Her contributions to team based primary care have been extraordinary.

We now have a roadmap of how to get every Canadian a family doc+team based care. Let’s make it a reality! # AFHTO #alliance

David Kaplan just gave the very best land acknowledgement ever during HQ rounds today. Wow - very moving and meangingful

@WRNPLed @TorontoStar Absolutely NPLCs are a salient part of team based care!

Ontario must cut red tape and give family doctors team support to address health care crisis thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @torontostar IHP teams free up MD time by managing chronic disease-RDs can lower A1c by 1-2%, lower BP, treat anemias. We are proud to serve Ontarians #afhto

Primary Health Care Dietitians work in CHCs supporting patients, providers and the team. Proud to be part of the team # alliance # afhto

Excellent and easy ways to help MDs be able to focus on their patients. PHc dietitians support team based care for all # Alliance # AFHTO # NPLC

This is a side by side of two women gracing the front covers of two well known magazines. The one on the right we all know is Martha Stewart, age 81. The one on the left is Apo Whang-Od, age 106, a tribal tattooist in a remote province in the Philippines. There seems to be an unwritten rule which equates beauty with youngness. In an interview, Martha Stewart told the reporter she credits her organic, home-grown, farm-to-table eating, yoga, and actively healthy lifestyle to her youthfulness. While that’s an admirable journey for her, let’s not forget the amount of privilege that kind of lifestyle requires. On the left is Apo Whang-Od, who is a 106-year-old tribal tattooist in the Philippines. The wisdom she carries in every forehead wrinkle and frown line is stunning. Her eyes are glass, reflecting back all that she’s witnessed over a century of lived experiences. Her tattoos a reminder of the ancestors she seeks to honor. Both women are beautiful in their own right. But I wish we as women didn’t play into this idea that we have to look younger—and thinner—in order to fit some unrealistic beauty standard which will grant us acceptance and relevance in the world around us. I’m writing this for any woman who, like me, may have had a punched-gut reaction to seeing an octogenarian in a swimsuit on the cover of a magazine looking more like a woman in her forties or fifties: Anti-aging is not a beauty standard. There IS beauty in wrinkles, and saggy skin, and drooping breasts. These are markers of a life hard fought for and well lived. It seems odd to try and erase these battle scars. So while I applaud Martha for her fortunate body, carefully curated procedures, and pristinely styled makeup, I also applaud Whang-Od for what others may perceive as imperfections. Anti-aging is not a beauty standard. Authenticity is. @ FeministNews

Your reminder that #DougFord & his #Conservative cohorts are busily working behind the scenes to make you poorer & less covered for healthcare so that greedy billionaires like Galen Weston, can get richer. #NeverVoteConservative #cdnpoli #ONpoli #TOpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Curious that Ottawa Hospital had to close a public operating room a week ago, but an operating room run by a private group of orthopedic surgeons at the same hospital remained open🤔 #onpoli #onhealth ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new…

The 75% of us who do not have a team=health inequity. And yes I have worked in team based care for almost 2 decades but personally do not have team based care. It is our time!!

@DavidKaplanMD @HBKidsHospital Great rounds today!!

Cheryl Peters, active member of the Family Leadership Program at @HBKidsHospital, shares the impact of family and caregiver involvement to improve the experience of kids and families during the #COVID19 pandemic. #QualityRounds

Team based primary care is the foundation of health care. PCP, nurses, dietitians, mental health/ social workers, chiropodists, Physio’s, OT & many other professionals collaborate to improve patient outcomes every day in Ontario