{"id":3424,"date":"2013-09-25T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T09:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theapplabb.com\/ap_phc\/?page_id=3424"},"modified":"2020-05-09T15:47:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T21:47:28","slug":"fwhc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reginaphysiciangroup.com\/?page_id=3424","title":{"rendered":"Finch Weston Health Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #ff4400; font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\"><em>General Information<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/finchwestonhealth.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">finchwestonhealth.com<\/a><\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Operating Since: 1999<\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Type of Engagement: Private Partnership<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #ff4400; font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\"><em>Description of Population<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Finch Weston Health Centre is located in mid city Toronto close to the nationally known and troubled neighborhood of Jane Street and Finch Avenue.\u00a0 The intersection of Finch Avenue and Weston Road is the heart of the historic Emery Village, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the greater Toronto Area.\u00a0 It is now home to numerous immigrants from Portugal, Italy, South America, the Middle East and Africa.\u00a0 In many instances, English is not the first language for many patients in this centre.\u00a0 Many families in this neighborhood live in rented flats, have blue collar jobs, have a higher single parent household ratio when compared to the broader Toronto population, and are generally of lower SES.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Finch Weston PHC Centre currently provide the patients of the community with a multitude of services ranging from primary dental care, to primary medical care, cancer screening, chronic disease management, and an on-site pharmacy and a cardiology clinic.\u00a0 The centre also provides its patient population with primary rehabilitation services including an on-site massage therapist, chiropractor, physiotherapist, reflexologist, personal wellness trainer and limited foot clinic solutions such as orthotics and braces.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Keeping in mind this population\u2019s special needs, the centre also actively employs Spanish and Arabic speaking employees, has on-hand translators, and arranges for certain patients to be transported in and out of the centre depending on their financial or other limitations.\u00a0 In addition, there is a strong emphasis on obtaining a social worker who can act as the patient\u2019s ombudsman.\u00a0 This is necessary because quite frequently, this sub-population of the city has more disabilities and also tend to be on social assistance programs.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff4400;\">Medical Issues of Special Interest to this Population<\/span> <\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The Finch Weston PHC population brings with it contrasting views and expectations of the health care system, often brought on by the patient\u2019s native experience with their own health care system prior to immigrating.\u00a0 Mental illness, for example, is much more of a taboo in such populations.\u00a0 A primary care and preventative medicine orientation is often lacking.\u00a0 Their public health expectations are vastly different from the standards employed in Canada.\u00a0 Demand for antibiotics, for example, is proportionally much higher in such populations than it is for the rest of the population.\u00a0 Providing primary health care to this population is challenging, yet most rewarding.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Information Website: finchwestonhealth.com Operating Since: 1999 Type of Engagement: Private Partnership Description of Population Finch Weston Health Centre is located in mid city Toronto close to the nationally known and troubled neighborhood of Jane Street and Finch Avenue.\u00a0 The intersection of Finch Avenue and Weston Road is the heart of the historic Emery Village, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3424","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginaphysiciangroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginaphysiciangroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginaphysiciangroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginaphysiciangroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginaphysiciangroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/reginaphysiciangroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/reginaphysiciangroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3424\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginaphysiciangroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}