All-Staff Town Hall on April 4, 2023:

Meeting recording and summary

In this email:

• Town Hall recording and slides
• Meeting highlights featuring CEO answers to your questions!
• Your Town Hall feedback
• Next meeting dates

• View the meeting recording
• View the slide deck

Welcome new team members - we are happy you chose us!

• Ankit Asthana (Finance Team Member)
• Christian Avila (MHC)
• Carrie Macartney (MHC)

Farewell, dear colleagues - we wish you all the best!

• James Baldwin (IT Support)
• Joanna Barrotta (Project Manager)
• Yvonne Sutherland-Case (MHC)

View the meeting recording at the following time stamps to hear about:

• GHHN update:14:56
• Ministry of Health Announcement: Connected & Convenient Care: 17:19
• Funding for expanding primary care services: 27:41
• HFHT Strategic Plan: 23:42
• CEO Roadshow - Listening, Learning, and Highlights: 37:21

You asked the following questions. Read our Q&A one-pager to get the answers.

• How will the discontinuation of extended medical care coverage to uninsured patients impact our patients? What is our responsibility?

• Will HFHT employees be given more opportunity in future to apply to leadership roles i.e., manager, coordinator, etc. Historically, these roles have been filled without posting the opportunity first. 

• With rampant inflation, and the provincial and federal government increasing funding to health care, are there any plans in giving employees of the HFHT a Cost-Of-Living Allowance (COLA)?

• Is the $30 million in funding promised for team-based primary care a provincial or federal announcement? 

• Who is defined as a "health care worker" in the new "As of Right" rules that allow health care workers registered in other provinces and territories to immediately start working and caring for patients? 

• April 4 is Refugee Rights Day.in Canada.
• April 12 is the International Day of Pink.
• People who are LGTBQ2SI+ or are labelled as Refugees frequently face discrimination. We must work together to uncover and change systemic discrimination in our health system. Do this through self-education and continued support from HFHT. Need guidance? Talk to your manager

• Vacation balances in Dayforce are now front-loaded, making it easier for you to plan your vacation! Read more.
• We are launching our Practice Help Centre PDSA to make it easier for practice teams to stay connected to HFHT. Read more.

What did you think of this town hall? n=27 (approx. 40% response rate)

• 66% said it was good
• 34% said it was ok
• 0% said it needs improvement

What would you like to hear about at future Town Halls?

• Wait time strategies.
• Organizational structure.
• More discussion and engagement with staff. Ask questions and get input, not just provide updates.
• More EDI/AR action items - what we can do in our practices.
• Eager to hear more specifics about what changes are coming.
• Strategic plan updates.
• An opportunity to share clinical work we are doing and how we can collaborate to serve patients.
• Celebrating fun we have had, like our successful potluck wellness challenge.

• Tuesday, May 16, 9:00 a.m. (note time change from 8:00 a.m.): We invite you for a virtual morning coffee with the CEO and Lead Physician!

• Wednesday, June 28, lunch time/afternoon (time TBA): Please hold the date for an all-staff/practice in-person Town Hall. Please begin rescheduling any patient appointments already booked for this time.

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