Flu Season is Coming!

Flu Season is Coming!The Barrie & Community Family Health Team is committed to protecting the health of our staff, patients and community. We are encouraging ALL BCFHT health care  workers and staff to roll up their sleeves and get a flu shot! What is Influenza...

10 Tips for a Diabetes-Friendly Thanksgiving

  Thanksgiving can be a challenging time for most Canadians, and especially for people with diabetes. The temptation to indulge can be overwhelming, but there are simple ways to make sure your Thanksgiving feast doesn’t interfere with your diet or heart health....

September is World Alzheimer’s Month!

September 2015 marks the fourth global World Alzheimer’s Month™, an international campaign to raise awareness and challenge stigma.Alzheimer associations around the world will focus their campaigns on advocacy and awareness with information provision, Memory Walks,...

Asthma “September Spike”

Week 38 phenomenon…25% of all children’s asthma hospitalizations occur 17.7 days after Labour Day.155 asthma deaths occur every year in Ontario.That is unacceptable…80% of these deaths are preventable.Let’s EDUCATE and PREPARE our patients.Refer your patients to BCFHT...