The Lakeview Family Health Team (LVFHT) offers a team approach to provide health care to you and your family. This approach brings together family physicians with other allied health professionals to coordinate the best possible care for patients. In addition to seeing your primary care provider, you may see one of the other health professionals who can look after some of your needs. As a patient you will have access to a number of different health professionals. You may:

• Continue to see your own primary care provider during regular office hours
• See another “Team” physician during after-hours clinics- your own provider will have access to this visit information

The Team Approach

Every Family Health team is unique and different from the other FHTs across the province. In addition to physicians, the LVFHT is pleased to be able to offer several different health professionals as part of the team who provide the following services:

• Nurse Practitioners:
  Nurse Practitioners provide comprehensive assessments of patients; prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses and injuries and help patients manage their chronic illnesses. Our NP also helps young families by offering a “well baby” program.
• Registered Nurses
  Registered Nurses provide preventative health examinations and health education and monitoring for patients with chronic diseases.
• Registered Practical Nurses
  Registered Practical Nurses work with the family physicians in providing health care and also provide health education and monitoring for chronic diseases.
• Dietitians
  Dietitians provide advice on nutrition and diet and their effects on maintaining health, as well as helping with dietary measures for prevention and treatment of diabetes, heart disease and other conditions.
• Social Workers
  Social workers help patients and families by providing counseling or therapy, and also finding and referring to community resources where and when needed.
• Pharmacists
  Pharmacists provide individual patient assessments that identify, prevent, or resolve drug related problems. As an integral member of the primary care team, the pharmacist also provides consultative and educational services for physicians and other allied health professionals.