In This Issue Sept. 2023 | Issue 4 Indigenous Primary Health Care Council & Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health: Working together to support high-quality perinatal, newborn, child and youth healthcare for Indigenous People The Indigenous Primary Health Care Council and PCMCH have entered a new partnership aimed at fostering high-quality perinatal, newborn, child […]
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Supporting high-quality and inclusive perinatal, newborn, child and youth healthcare Subscribe to Milestones In This Issue Annual Report 2022/23 now available In case you missed it, our 2022/23 annual report was released last month. It highlights our wide-ranging initiatives in the past year, including how we worked to address the healthcare needs of equity-deserving communities
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June 2023 | Issue 3 Learn about PCMCH’s wide-ranging work in our recently released 2022/23 annual report. In it, you will read about how we engaged in the design of system planning tools, such as levels of care criteria and the emergency department paediatric readiness checklist, and the generation of resources and webinars that support
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June 2023 | Issue 3 Evidence-based resources that support quality care for patients with sickle cell disease are available. Released earlier this year, Ontario Health’s Sickle Cell Disease: Care for People of All Ages Quality Standard addresses care for children, young people and adults with sickle cell disease. It also addresses the needs of families,
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In March 2023, PCMCH released the Providing Inclusive, Affirming and Safer Perinatal Care to 2SLGBTQIA+ Individuals tip sheet, a resource that supports perinatal healthcare providers, teams and organizations in advancing high-quality care for 2SLGBTQIA+ parents and families throughout the pregnancy, birthing and postpartum periods. As the tip sheet promotes, efforts to provide inclusive, affirming and
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June 2023 | Issue 3 The Safe Administration of Oxytocin guideline report was developed by PCMCH in 2019 to aid in reducing the risk of misuse and mismanagement of oxytocin. PCMCH completed an evaluation of the Safe Administration of Oxytocin guideline report and toolkit in March 2023. A multi-pronged approach was used to determine the
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March 2023 | Issue 2 Unable to attend one of PCMCH’s recent Paediatric Diabetes and Paediatric Obesity Management webinars? Not to worry – recordings of the following webinars are now available on our website: Evaluation of a Province-Wide Type 1 Diabetes Care Plan for Children in the School Setting Traditional Knowledge-based Lifestyle Interventions in the
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In this Issue New Resources Support Healthy Pregnancies for People with Disabilities Three new evidence-based resources for healthcare providers, administrators and pregnant people that support healthy pregnancies, birthing experiences and postpartum outcomes for people with disabilities have been released by PCMCH and the University of Toronto. Read more… PCMCH, Regional Networks & BORN: Working together
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March 2023 | Issue 2 Neonatal follow-up plays a critical role in Ontario’s healthcare system, monitoring and offering early intervention for high-risk infants with varying diagnoses. In 2017, PCMCH developed resources to support standardization and collaboration across clinics in Ontario, and also support parents and families to help them better understand their journey through the
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March 2023 | Issue 2 Established by PCMCH in 2021, the Regional Networks Operational Forum (RNOF) is a provincial community of practice that supports local planning, coordination among healthcare providers, and implementation of provincial standards and guidelines in Ontario. Comprised of the six perinatal-newborn-child health regional networks, Ontario Health regions, PCMCH and BORN, its aim
