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BookJane APP – Doctors helping doctors
Thanks to all who have signed up for the BookJane app. In just a couple of days, 1,300 members have registered!
BookJane is a voluntary service for members who can provide additional support to hospitals and community-care clinics in need. We appreciate all the work our members are doing during this crisis.
Local hospitals or clinics may also have processes or plans to address the redeployment of doctors. We encourage you to use the methods that work best for you.
We hope BookJane will soon accept registration from international medical graduates, residents and retired physicians. We will keep you posted.
If you choose to register for BookJane:
- Download the BookJane app from your Apple or Android app stores
- Sign into the app using the access code OMA
- Create a profile outlining your primary specialty, secondary specialties, location preferences, etc.
To find out more, visit the OMA website for details and a step-by-step User Guide
Hospital preparedness
Building on lessons learned from SARS and learning from other jurisdictions, we know there is a need for greater system capacity to be built. Many of you are discussing the need to develop designated COVID facilities.
Today the Ministry of Health released guidance on setting up alternate care facilities. This document is being reviewed and we intend to provide guidance to members and recommendations to the system.
Access the details.
Building on this, many leaders across the province are working on plans for their local communities. A team in Uxbridge has developed a resource that might serve as a template to help other communities having these same discussions. This document will continue to evolve to reflect new system recommendations. They speak to the critical need to leverage system guidance and work alongside hospitals and other community partners to develop these creative and much needed options. There are, undoubtedly, many other excellent undertakings by others across Ontario. Please share what you are doing with us, so that we can help build options.
Read details of the Uxbridge proposal.
Health-care workers in multiple settings
Last week we referenced an Ontario Health document that was intended to provide health-care organizations with guidance to support health-care workers who work in more than one organization. We raised concerns regarding one recommendation that health-care workers working in an organization where COVID-19 was declared or suspected would not be permitted to work elsewhere until the outbreak was cleared. This has since been revised to clarify that “health-care workers working on a suspected or declared COVID-19 outbreak unit, a COVID-19 area within an organization, or an intensive care unit caring for probable or confirmed COVID cases may not be permitted to work elsewhere until the outbreak is cleared, or at the direction of the local public health unit or aligned with infection control practices.” And that “Organizational decisions regarding the deployment of resources in these circumstances will be made in a manner that balances the needs of patient care and safety aligned to local conditions.”
Ontario Health has informed us that further revisions could be made as the situation evolves.
Learn more.
Filing WSIB COVID-19 claims
While some people’s work may put them at greater risk of contracting COVID-19, any claims received by the WSIB will be adjudicated on a case-by-case basis.
- If you contracted COVID-19 at work, you may file a claim to determine if you are eligible for WSIB coverage.
- If you believe you were exposed to COVID-19 while at work, but you do not have a diagnosis or symptoms, please do not file a claim. Instead, you can file an exposure incident form through the Program for Exposure Incident Reporting. You will be assigned an incident number. If you become ill in the future, the WSIB will be able to process your claim faster.
To report an exposure, please complete and fax the appropriate form below to 1-888-313-7373 or call the WSIB at 1-800-387-0750, Monday to Friday, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Worker's Exposure Incident Form (PDF) or Employer’s Exposure Incident Form (PDF)
For additional information, please visit the WSIB website
Reminder:
WSIB-insured patients are eligible for the new temporary telephone and video codes K080 – K083. Where a patient does not have OHIP coverage, but is covered for a workplace injury via WSIB, the WSIB has a process to accommodate these billings. Please email info@oma.org for further details.
A fast and easy way to get your ONE ID credentials:
Ontario Health (Digital Services) has created instructions for physicians on how to get ONE ID credentials to use provincial digital health systems such as the OTN virtual care tools. Physicians can visit the CPSO website to get ONE ID credentials or check to see if you already have them. As a CPSO member, you will be able to setup up your ONE ID account within minutes of completing the registration process.
See these instructions.
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