Policies
In August 2007, The Marathon Family Health Team was asked by a group funded through the Ministry of Health, called Quality in Family Practice, to participate in a program designed to help improve the quality of family medicine.
The Quality group had designed a program to help practice teams work together to identify improvements, plan changes and take action as they move forward with their clinical practice team development.
The Marathon Family Health Team already had various policies and policy statements in place, but felt that involvement with this project would help them assess where they were at now, and identify where they wanted to be in the future and how to get there.
The Marathon Family Health Team adopted the practice assessment process, which is a journey that requires involvement and action by the whole team. The main focus for the team is a continuous quality improvement process (CQI), utilizing a Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle for testing changes on a small scale.
As a result, in February 2008 the Marathon Family Health Team received official certification indicating that the group had successfully completed a small portion of the indicators and criteria components of the Quality program. In addition the group committed to continue on targeting the remaining indicators by working on several of them over the next few years.
This section is dedicated to sharing the policies and policy statements that the Marathon Family Health Team has developed, with each of the ones completed showing as links to the right of this page.