DFM 2016-2017 Annual Report

CHARLES LEDUC
DR.
Department Head,
Academic
DR. SONYA LEE
Academic Department Head,
Deputy
Medicine, Calgary
Family
DR. MICHAEL SPADY
Department Head,
Clinical
Medicine, Calgary Zone
Family
DR. ANN VAIDYA
Clinical Department Head,
Deputy
Medicine, Calgary Zone
Family
Welcome to the 2016 Department of Family Medicine Annual Report.
This year we are pleased to present our accomplishments under the
theme of “Harmonization of the Care Journey: Patients, Families,
Communities, and the Medical Home”. As you will see, our academic
and clinical endeavors over the past year continue to focus on building
better medical homes for our patients that integrate with acute care
services, communities, and the needs of our patients and their families.
We continue to participate in the transformation and evolution of primary
care in the province and are pleased to work together with our Primary
Care Network partners to build better collaborations and integrated
services that reflect our health care commitment to Albertans. Taking
into account the diversity of environments in which family physicians
practice, we strive to maintain a patient-focused family medicine
perspective.
I N T R O D U C T I O N
Like other departments, we are challenged with continuity of information
and continuity of relationships in patient care, as well as sustainability of
health care in an increasingly socially and technologically complex
world. This requires innovative thinking, strong working relationships,
and listening to those we work with and serve. To provide a strong
primary care voice, our members are involved in many initiatives, and
advocate for the medical home on many committees, including the
Centralized Information System working group, the Primary Care Action
Plan Council and Secretariat, and all of the provincial Strategic Clinical
Networks.
We have highlighted the core Alberta Health Services values of
compassion, accountability, respect, excellence, and safety, throughout
the report and see them reflected daily in the work of our staff and
physicians. We would like to acknowledge and thank all of you who
support the work of the Department and provide clinical services to our
1.2 million Calgarians. We look with excitement to the future of health
care in Calgary, and think you will see this reflected in this year’s report.
Family Medicine, Calgary