Health Matters - Apple Magazine Health Matters Summer 2016 | Page 2
Cover: Ron McLane
PHOTOS BY NEIL ZELLER
CALGARY AND AREA
Your
Health Matters
Health Matters is published by Calgary and area Primary
Care Networks (PCNs) to give you information about
the programs, services and health teams available to
you through your family doctors. More than 60,000
copies are distributed in the Calgary area.
Research shows when people visit a family doctor
regularly, they are healthier and live longer. People with
chronic diseases also receive more care, make fewer
emergency department visits and are hospitalized less.
More than 1,300 family doctors in 346 clinics belong to
PCNs in the Calgary area. They provide care for about
1.1 million patients.
Health Matters, Summer 2016 Issue publication team:
Jennifer Allford, Keith Bradford, Terry Bullick,
Bart Goemans, Cori Leyte, Dr. Christine Luelo,
Jacquie Maurice, Amy Sawchenko, Chrissie Worth
Contributors:
Jennifer Allford, Mike Fisher, Anne Georg,
Jacqueline Louie, Jimi Scherer, Neil Zeller
We appreciate your feedback and article
suggestions. Contact our editorial team at
[email protected].
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› Calgary Rural Primary Care Network
› South Calgary Primary Care Network
APPLE
SUMMER 2016
Whether they’re a
family doctor, nurse, a
pharmacist, social worker
or a dietitian, they’re all a
part of your team.
Your home
team
advantage
PCNs coach you to
better health
BY JACQEULINE LOUIE
Whatever your health goals, it helps to
work with a team. Your team will guide you,
encourage you and keep you on track with
information, advice and resources that help
you across the finish line.
Primary Care Networks (PCNs) have a team-
based approach to helping their patients.
“Whether they’re a family doctor, nurse, a
pharmacist, social worker or a dietitian, they’re
all a part of your team,” says Mike Thompson,
the health team manager with the Calgary
Foothills PCN, which serves northwest Calgary
and Cochrane.
PCN teams can also include health
management nurses, psychologists, social
workers and certified counsellors.
“Patients receive more comprehensive care
by having different team members, who are
all working together,” he says. “There is strong
collaboration and communication. Everyone
is working with the same care plan to help
patients meet their goals, and all care is
coordinated in one place. It really ensures they
get the comprehensive care they need.”