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#HealthEquity through comprehensive primary healthcare. More than 100 community-governed health organizations across Ontario. #CHC #AHAC #CFHT #NPLC www.allianceon.org
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Family & community caregivers are an essential part of your care team. Caregiver inclusion reduces provider stress & facilitates communication. Join this webinar at 12pm on Nov 12 to learn about the Ontario Caregiver Organization Support Hub & how it can help: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Better Care Starts Here: How to Embed Caregivers as Partners in Care. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
"You can come up with a care plan and think it's the greatest thing in the world, but if their caregiver can't do it, then it's pointless. I truly mean that we cannot care for the patients without the...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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La Semaine nationale de la sécurité des patients 2025 commence aujourd’hui! Comment comptez-vous la célébrer? Découvrez comment participer : www.healthcareexcellence.ca/fr/actualite...

#SNSP2025
Bulles illustrées de différentes couleurs. Le texte dit : Des soins plus sûrs, portés par toutes les voix. Semaine nationale de la sécurité des patients 2025. 27-31 oct.
October 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Canadian Patient Safety Week 2025 starts today! How are you planning to celebrate? Find out how you can get involved: www.healthcareexcellence.ca/en/news/join...

#CPSW2025
Illustrated speech bubbles in various colours. Text says: All Voices for Safer Care. Canadian Patient Safety Week 2025. Oct 27-31.
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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If you live with #SickleCellDisease or provide care for someone who does, you can help improve the standard of care by reviewing the latest draft Quality Standard from
@ontariohealth.bsky.social. Add your voice by November 3. Here's how: www.allianceon.org/research-opp... #PrimaryCare
Alliance graphic with multi-coloured logo and words that read: Ontario Health is seeking feedback on a Draft Quality Standard for Sickle Cell Disease. Health care providers and community members with lived experiences of having sickle cell disease, include your voice by Monday, November 3. Here's how.
October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Community Health and Wellbeing Month is an October initiative that highlights the importance of community-based health services showcasing organizations such as the West Elgin Community Health Centre. At our Centre we focus on health equity, and building stronger, healthier communities. #CHWM2025
October 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The Interprofessional #PrimaryCare Team Expansion Toolkit offers case examples that can inspire along with practical tools that can help you identify and address specific challenges as you work to expand to increase #attachment and #access. Learn more + download: www.allianceon.org/book/IPCT-Ex...
FREE RESOURCE FOR ALL ORGANIZATIONS Are you working to expand primary care for attachment and access? Download the Interprofessional Primary Care Team (IPCT) Expansion Toolkit today!
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Engaged in an EOI (Expression of Interest) for Interprofessional #PrimaryCare Team (IPCT) expansion in Ontario? Don't miss this LIVE Q&A HAPPENING TOMORROW on leveraging the Neighbourhood Health Home model to increase #attachment & #access. Info + register here--> www.allianceon.org/event/QA-IPC...
Alliance graphic with text that reads: Free webinar: Live Q&A for IPCT Expansion Expressions of Interest (EOIs): Applying the Neighbourhood Health Home model. Tuesday, October 21, 8am to 9am.
October 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Health-care workers know that continued investment in #FossilFuels will accelerate and intensify the effects of #ClimateChange. Such investments hurt:
📉financial health of the economy
☠️our patients
❌our retirement fund

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August 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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New research shows 22% of workers are hoarding time off for emergencies. Over a third of Canadians don’t have paid sick leave. We need 10 paid sick days in Ontario so people can rest, not ration. #PaidSickDays

Read more at thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...
Skipping Time Off? You’re Not Alone | The Tyee
Two polls find that many Canadians don’t take all of the vacation days they are owed.
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August 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Doctors shouldn't have to choose who "deserves" care. As emergency physician @bernardho.bsky.social said, "This is a health equity issue for Ontario’s most vulnerable."

We need a permanent program that provides #Healthcare4All regardless of immigration status.

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Ontario doctors don't get paid when they treat uninsured patients. Here's how that might change | CBC News
Several times a week, a man comes to the busy ER in Toronto where Dr. Bernard Ho works — and the doctors treat him, despite the fact that they’re not being paid for it. The Ontario Medical Association...
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August 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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October is Community Health and Wellbeing Month and Community Support Month - its an opportunity to celebrate and raise awareness about the vital importance of these healthcare services and the amazing work of the West Elgin Community Health Centre.

#CHWM
#StandingTogether
October 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Are you planning to expand primary care to increase attachment? Join us for this hands-on webinar: Practical Guidance for Interprofessional Primary Care Team Expansion EOI: Applying the Neighbourhood Health Home Model on Thursday, October 9, 2025, 8:00 AM ET: ca01web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Alliance for Healthier Communities-branded graphic with text that reads: Free Webinar: Practical Guidance for Interprofessional Primary Care Team Expansion EOI: Applying the Neighbourhood Health Home Model. Thursday, October 9, 2025. 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
October 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Welcome to Community Health and Wellbeing Month 2025! We’re excited to join w/ Alliance members + their partners throughout October to highlight the ways we’re #StandingTogether for #CommunityHealth, #HealthEquity, and accessible #PrimaryCare. Follow #CHWM + #StandingTogether to join in! #ONhealth
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October 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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A key enabler of reconciliation in health and wellbeing is the call to action from Indigenous leaders: “Indigenous health in Indigenous hands.” The Alliance stands in solidarity w/ the Indigenous Primary Health Care Council and its calls to action. Full statement: www.allianceon.org/news/Nationa...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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There's still time to register for the Alliance's 10th annual Privacy Officers' Professional Learning Event. It's happening in person this year. To see the full agenda and register now, visit----> www.allianceon.org/10th-Annual-...
Alliance branded graphic with text that reads: Professional Learning Event. 10th Annual In-Person Privacy Officers' Professional Learning Event Friday October 3, 2025. 8:30am to 4:30pm. Crown Plaza Toronto Airport. $275-$325+HST.
September 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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L'Ontario va dans la bonne direction en matière de santé des francophones, mais il reste encore beaucoup de travail à faire. Veuillez lire notre déclaration complète : www.allianceon.org/fr/news/En-c...
Logo d'Alliance avec texte qui lit: En ce Jour des Franco-Ontariens, Tous Solidaires pour la santé des francophones
September 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Learn more about the Interprofessional Primary Care Team (IPCT) Expansion Toolkit to increase primary care operational capacity and increase #attachment, w/ useful resources for all of #primarycare. Register today for the Free Webinar on Oct. 6 @ 12pmET: www.allianceon.org/event/Launch... #ONhealth
Alliance for Healthier Communities-branded graphic that reads: "Free Webinar. Looking for resources, case examples, and change ideas to increase operational capacity and advance primary care access and attachment? Join us to learn more. Online Interprofessional Primary Care Team (IPCT) Expansion Toolkit Webinar. Monday, October 6, 12 p.m. ET, FREE.
September 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Being in solidarity must always extend beyond words, statements and commitments. As we mark National #IndigenousHistoryMonth, we're focused on listening to the truth, and acting on oppression and injustices in support of #IndigenousHealth. Our full statement: www.allianceon.org/news/Allianc...
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June 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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As we celebrate Pride Month, we join others in calling for push back against oppression of 2SLGBTQ+ people + communities and others marginalized by stigma, hate and threats of violence. Our Pride Month statement: www.allianceon.org/news/Celebra...
Alliance graphic with Pride flags and words that read: Celebrating Pride, Pushing Back Against Oppression
June 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Don't miss a panel discussion happening TOMORROW, June 12 at 12 p.m. ET during the launch of the final report from Black-Focused Social Prescribing.
Find out more about how BFSP improves health care experiences + outcomes. REGISTER HERE ------> www.allianceon.org/event/Succes... #ONhealth
Successes from Black-Focused Social Prescribing | Alliance for Healthier Communities
This webinar is presented by the Alliance for Healthier Communities in partnership with participating organizations and evaluators in the Black-Focused Social Prescribing (BFSP) project.
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June 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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“We must make sure we’re collecting fulsome race-based and socio-demographic data, robustly, consistently and putting it into action, to reach the people facing barriers.” — Dr. Notisha Massaquoi
June 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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The courage to do things in ways that are different from what’s “always been done” is an essential ingredient for making health and social care more connected and integrated — and accessible to the people most in need of team-based care. #Alliance2025
June 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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“We must find ways to increase the joy in work, at all levels, from local to system levels. Caring for people must be intrinsically joyful. And we must value every person doing the work.” — Dr. Dominik Nowak #Alliance2025
June 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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“We have become numb to and comfortable with inequitable conditions and health disparities faced by Black and Indigenous people and communities. My radical idea is that we cannot and must not leave anyone behind. We must find the courage required for it.”— Dr. Notisha Massaquoi
June 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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“Let’s build movements, not organizations for community-driven integrated care.” — Jen Quinlan, Flemingdon Health Centre.
June 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM