Dr. A. Jerome, Family Doctor, Tansley Family Health Clinic

12/25/2024

Yummy snacks from Jarlette Health Services

Merry Christmas!!

11/12/2024

With the colder weather, we are seeing an increase in respiratory and gastrointestinal illness, and we need your help. By working together, we can protect each other from severe illness as we spend more time indoors and closer together. Please follow the tips below for a healthy fall and winter!

Reduce the spread

Stay home if sick. Symptoms of illness may include:

Fever, cough, runny nose, congestion (nasal and/or chest)

Sore throat, hoarse voice

Joint or muscle pain, fatigue

Abdominal pain, vomiting/diarrhea

If you or your child experience respiratory symptoms, they must feel better for at least 24 hours before returning to school, daycare or work. If they experience gastrointestinal symptoms, they must feel better for at least 48 hours before returning to school, daycare and work.

Wash your hands often.

Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue or using your upper sleeve.

Wear a well-fitted, high-quality mask in crowded indoor settings with poor ventilation, especially if at a higher risk of getting sick.

Increase cleaning and disinfection around your home when people are ill.

If ill with vomiting and/or diarrhea, ensure that your disinfectant is effective against norovirus. Read and follow disinfectant label instructions.

Stay up-to-date with COVID-19, flu and routine vaccines

Different vaccines protect you for different amounts of time. Staying up-to-date with routine vaccinations is a crucial preventive step in protecting your child’s health and reducing the risk of serious illness overall.

COVID-19 and flu vaccines generally protect against severe disease for around six months to one year.

The updated COVID-19 vaccines specifically target the KP.2 variant and will better protect from the variants spreading now.

Everyone six months of age and older is encouraged to book an appointment to receive their COVID-19 and flu vaccines through their local pharmacies. Pharmacies offering COVID-19, and flu vaccines can be found at Ontario.ca/vaccinelocations.

Halton Region Public Health will offer COVID-19 vaccines to children six months to five years of age. Appointments can be booked online.

Where to go for care

Call your doctor or after hours colleagues .

Call Health Connect Ontario at 811 or chat online with a nurse 24/7.

Access an Urgent Care clinic for non-life-threatening illnesses or injuries.

If you or a family member are experiencing a medical emergency or severe injury, visit your nearest emergency department.

More information

Please visit Halton Region and Health Canada’s webpages for updated information on

COVID
FLU
RSV
Whooping cough/ pertussis

https://www.halton.ca/For-Residents/Immunizations-Preventable-Disease/Diseases-Infections/Prevent-Communicable-Diseases-A-Z-Index

Norovirus
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/food-poisoning/norovirus.html



Halton Region Public Health

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11/01/2024

This exciting news will NOT affect my family practice!

My patients are my number one!

Happy to help organize medical services in your organization.

We are thrilled to introduce our first Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Amanda Jerome! In this role, Dr. Jerome will support our team of physicians across our family of long-term care communities in providing the highest possible level of care to our valued residents and a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

10/26/2024

If ever finding yourself with urgent concern (not emergency) and it’s a Sunday or a day after my office and/or our group’s after hours clinics have closed ….. this is next best option for getting the care you need.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DBjwmraOiFQ/?igsh=N2gwYjM2bXViMml0

10/22/2024

Change is hopefully coming Ontario

We are all hoping and praying that our government keeps their promises and saves the Family Doctor crisis- which starts with improved working conditions, remuneration, team supports and streamlining referrals and communication with pharmacies. Without all of the above, the disrespect, emotional scarring of being unable to get patients to specialist when they need it, and mountains of unnecessary faxes, refused referrals and FORMS that DO NOT need an MD degree to complete.

We all emphasized that opening more medical schools, training more residents or working with international medical graduates is not the fix we need. if our work environment doesn’t change all of these people will enter Family Medicine practises and burn out within months to years just as we are seeing now. Mike Harris Lucille Collard Green Party of OntariolegislativeassemblynewsLiberal Party of Canada | Parti libéral du CanadaProgressive Conservative Party of Ontario Ontario Medical Association

10/22/2024

Acknowledged by Lucille Collard, in the Gallery of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, after our meeting and great discussion about how the government can work with doctors to reduce burnout in our current comprehensive care Family Doctors, as well as the changes that will make running a traditional Family Doctor’s office an attractive career again! Lucille Collard legislativeassemblynews.

Similarly impressed by Aislinn Clancy’s awareness and obvious passion to working together to because we believe Green Party of Ontario https://www.oma.org/advocacy/stop-the-crisis/?shpath=/priorities/every-ontarian-needs-a-doctor

10/22/2024

While it is hard to close my office for 2 days, I feel I had an impact on improving healthcare meeting with as many MPPs we could for OMA Doctor Day at Queen’s Park

02/28/2024

Adults born 1970-2000 NEED
MEASLES booster
Call you doctors

We do not need measles pandemic

02/15/2024

Fight for us. The government has been ignoring us. They care about votes. Speak up and get loud that you will only vote for a government that
- allows us to make referral to specialists or diagnostic testing on ONE form
- ban employers and schools from requesting notes and forms from doctors
- trust adults to fill in their own disability applications and Ministry of Transportation forms like they trust adults to fill in the tax information
- stop financially penalizing doctors if another doctor bills certain codes
- implement rate of pay by the hour for administrative work
- increase our billing codes to a respectable rate given our profession and training ie: give us the years of cost of living increases to our billing codes for the last 30 years that we never received
- give back the money they unilaterally have been cutting from our paycheck for over 5 years (can you imagine your boss deciding to only pay you for $1800 when you put in the hours for $2300 paycheque
- increase funding to our medical and dental benefits. I pay $250/m for my family to only have basic medical insurance and that doesn’t include ANY dental benefits)
- return to public service announcements to educate masses when they change the rules of the OHIP game rather than leaving us to announce the government is not paying us to do annual physicals
- create a government funded healthcare portal for all hospitals, pharmacies and doctors to use. Family doctors are being bullied by corrupt companies monopolizing the market so that we have no choice but to PAY UP while OntarioMD let’s them hike up prices, offer terrible customer support and overall hold our practice and patient charts hostage as they increase barriers to having competitor companies even exist or ease of movement.

Even though this doctor in the video seems to be using paper charts, most of us are paperless and the quoted unpaid admin hours doing “paperwork” are still at least 25h per week for us too.

In the midst of a critical family doctor shortage about a thousand Mississauga patients are scrambling to find a new physician. Their doctor can’t take it an...

02/04/2024

01/22/2024

Donations at critical levels- if you can consider donating food or etransferring funds. See information in photo. My children and I volunteered here on weekends in 2022. Happy Days Sanctuary does amazing work rehabilitating and socializing cats. They have 3 different very clean large living spaces for the cats to meet their individual needs. Some are sick when they arrive and need to be in large crate filled with litter that’s always clean , warm bed and toys. Another area is a cat’s paradise filled with floor to ceiling climbing and lounging opportunities as well as kitty doors to large safe outdoor playground. Lastly is the apartment is where cats who are ready for adoption get accustomed to how a home works while they wait for your loving arms. Please support the work Anne and her team of volunteers do for these amazing animals 🐈🐈‍⬛❤️