About us
Oak Valley Health and our health care partners in the community have worked diligently to create the Eastern York Region North Durham (EYRND) Ontario Health Team (OHT). With the support of the Government of Ontario, the EYRND OHT will organize and deliver care that is more connected and centred on people with lived experiences, families, and caregivers.
To determine the first-year priorities, the EYRND OHT team analyzed community data, consulted with the Regional Municipality of York (York Region) and Regional Municipality of Durham (Durham Region), collaborated with more than 100 primary care providers, and received suggestions and input from more than 2,000 community residents.
The EYRND OHT first year priorities will concentrate on improving care for people with lived experiences who have mental health challenges and/or addictions, and those living with dementia and their caregivers in Markham, Stouffville, Thornhill, Brock and Uxbridge and beyond.
Given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, EYRND OHT will expand our target population include those living in long-term care homes, retirement homes, group homes, etc.
View our governance model here.
What is an OHT?
The Government of Ontario is reforming the health care system by creating Ontario Health Teams (OHTs), established by the new Connecting Care Act. The Act also creates Ontario Health, a ‘super’ agency that provides broad oversight to the health-care system.
OHTs are groups of health care providers who will deliver care to people with lived experience including primary care services, home care, acute care, long-term care, mental health and addictions services, dementia support and care, and palliative care services. OHTs will allow care providers to be more efficient, and spend more of their time and resources delivering care to clients.
Our EYRND OHT has strong support from local primary care providers. EYRND OHT is excited to have the involvement of health care providers as it takes this collaborative journey together to provide seamless care to residents.
Our partners
We are pleased to be partnering with the following leaders in health care in our community. Together, we are working to provide seamless, first-rate care to people with lived experience in Markham, Stouffville, Thornhill, Uxbridge, and beyond.
