Winter 2009 - Association of Ontario Midwives

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AOM News & Updates Staff Updates The AOM staff continues to grow in order to serve members. There have also been a number of recent staff leaves of absence. If you are not sure who best can help you, just call reception and you will be connected with the staff member who can best assist you. A full staff directory can be found on the AOM website at www.aom.on.ca/ AOM/Contact_Us/ Juana Berinstein, Director of Policy and Communications, is on parental leave, returning in September. Alisa Simon, Senior Policy Analyst, is currently Acting Director in Juana’s place. Timothy Mbugua has joined the AOM until September as a Contract Policy Analyst. Diana MacNab, Manager, Membership Services, is on maternity leave until January, 2010. Congratulations Diana and family on the arrival of daughter Aurora. Jill Moriarty is currently Acting Manager in Diana’s place. Zahara Hajiani, Program Administrator, is on Maternity leave until February, 2010. Congratulations Zahara and family on the arrival of daughter Arianna. Ferdausi Mannan is currently Acting Program Administrator. Deborah Schneider-Gagne, Benefits Administrator, is on maternity leave until January, 2010. Congratulations Deborah and family on the arrival of daughter Lorelye. Angela Edwards is currently Acting Benefits Administrator while Deborah is on leave. The AOM has hired a new full-time Events Coordinator. Laura Belair will coordinate the AGM and Annual Conference, as well as ESW events. OHA HEalth achieve show 2008: Lisa Weston, RM, AOM Vice President, talks with two visitors at the AOM booth during the Ontario Hospitals Association conference and trade show in November. Jasmine Ferreira, Program Assistant-Policy and Communications, helps to staff the AOM booth and distribute brochures. Building relationships with Ontario Hospitals In November, the AOM participated in “OHA Health Achieve”, the Ontario Hospital Association trade show and conference. The AOM booth saw hundreds of visitors over three days. Staff handed out newsletters, posters and informational brochures about midwifery, increasing the visibility of the profession within a targeted health care audience of hospital CEOs, senior hospital administrators, hospital board members, senior nursing staff and others. Feedback from delegates was very positive. AOM board members and staff also attended many of the seminars and networking sessions focussed on maternity care in Ontario. The AOM anticipates being involved with Health Achieve annually to continue to promote the integration of midwives into the health care system. Midwifery Education Program activities AOM representatives recently attended several Midwifery Education Program events including a screening of Orgasmic Birth and panel discussion at Ryerson, a guest lecture regarding Cultural Politics and Traditional Birth Attendants also at Ryerson and an information session and reception at McMaster. Many members also attended the annual MEP Preceptor Conference. This conference is available at no cost to all midwives. Sessions included: • New approaches and developments in the MEP • Meaningful feedback between students and teachers in the MEP • Planning clinical experiences in a variety of on-call models • Changing trends in midwife-attended homebirth and implications 04 ontario midwife • Winter 2009
The Association of Ontario Midwives presents the College of Midwives of Ontario with a set of promotional posters during a CMO/AOM Liaison meeting at the new AOM office. ABOVE (left to right): Deborah Adams (CMO Registrar); Diane Parkin, RM (CMO Midwife Member); Kelly Stadelbauer (AOM Executive Director); Mary Ann Leslie, RM (AOM Secretary); Katrina Kilroy, RM (AOM President); Mylene Shields, RM (CMO President); Barbara Herron (CMO Public Member, Vice President); Eleni Palantzas (CMO Public Member); Andrea Lennox, RM (CMO Vice President) Midwives active with Ontario LHINs The AOM is pleased to announce that midwives from every region in Ontario applied to serve on their Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) Health Care Professionals Advisory Committees (HPAC) and that four midwives were appointed. The four midwives serving on HPACs are: Sandy Knight in the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant LHIN, Sara Stainton in the North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN, Remi Ejiwunmi in the Mississauga Halton LHIN and Deborah Bonser in the Toronto Central LHIN. As members of the HPAC, these midwives have a unique opportunity to help inform health care policy in their regions and to ensure the voices of midwifery are heard in the health care planning process. “There have been a number of ways that I have been able to give input to my LHIN,” says Sara Stainton. “First is through HPAC, and this is an ongoing and developing relationship. Also, I have met LHIN representatives through various committees that are community-based and run through the local health unit, community health centre and the hospital. “My LHIN went out looking for representatives of the local maternity health care community and consumers,” she says. “Whenever I have seen or heard for calls for consumers through the health care community or through local media I am quick to contact some of the consumers from my own practice and I also contact other midwifery practices in the LHIN so that they can alert other consumers. I think that this contact with consumers will really help to make the LHIN aware of what a great resource midwives are.” Many more midwives throughout the province are working hard to help with maternity care planning by serving on important committees in their LHIN such as Liz Darling, Leslie Viets and Céline D’Arcy in the Champlain LHIN, Shirley Meltzer with Central West LHIN and Allyson Booth in the Central East LHIN. If you are working with your regional LHIN, please contact the AOM office so that there is knowledge of the work being done by members. As more LHINs engage in maternity care planning, it is becoming increasingly important for midwives to engage in work with LHINs - and there are many ways to be involved: • Sign up to be on the AOM LHIN listserve for your region • Go to your local LHIN webpage which can be found at www.lhins. on.ca and sign up for updates about health care planning occurring in your LHIN • Attend open LHIN board meetings • To find out if your LHIN is working on maternity care planning and how you can get involved with LHIN committees, contact Tim Mbugua at the AOM: policy@aom.on.ca www.aom.on.ca 05
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