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    1. The doctor's office serves a diverse patient population across Toronto. However, Ontario doctors have been working without a contract since 2014, and the provincial government has imposed funding cuts that will directly impact the care provided. 2. As a result of funding cuts, the clinic can no longer offer online appointment booking or subsidize costs of printouts, emails, and other uninsured services. After hours flu shot clinics and subsidized clinic hours will also be reduced. 3. Patients are asked to use the clinic for regular and urgent care needs to avoid costs being charged to the clinic from other providers. An annual fee is being requested to help maintain service levels.

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    1. The doctor's office serves a diverse patient population across Toronto. However, Ontario doctors have been working without a contract since 2014, and the provincial government has imposed funding cuts that will directly impact the care provided. 2. As a result of funding cuts, the clinic can no longer offer online appointment booking or subsidize costs of printouts, emails, and other uninsured services. After hours flu shot clinics and subsidized clinic hours will also be reduced. 3. Patients are asked to use the clinic for regular and urgent care needs to avoid costs being charged to the clinic from other providers. An annual fee is being requested to help maintain service levels.

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    1. The doctor's office serves a diverse patient population across Toronto. However, Ontario doctors have been working without a contract since 2014, and the provincial government has imposed funding cuts that will directly impact the care provided. 2. As a result of funding cuts, the clinic can no longer offer online appointment booking or subsidize costs of printouts, emails, and other uninsured services. After hours flu shot clinics and subsidized clinic hours will also be reduced. 3. Patients are asked to use the clinic for regular and urgent care needs to avoid costs being charged to the clinic from other providers. An annual fee is being requested to help maintain service levels.

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    1. The doctor's office serves a diverse patient population across Toronto. However, Ontario doctors have been working without a contract since 2014, and the provincial government has imposed funding cuts that will directly impact the care provided. 2. As a result of funding cuts, the clinic can no longer offer online appointment booking or subsidize costs of printouts, emails, and other uninsured services. After hours flu shot clinics and subsidized clinic hours will also be reduced. 3. Patients are asked to use the clinic for regular and urgent care needs to avoid costs being charged to the clinic from other providers. An annual fee is being requested to help maintain service levels.

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    November 1, 2015

    we11pont

    Dear

    Family Practice
    1240 Bay Street
    Floor
    Toronto, Ontario
    M5R 2A7
    Fax: (416) 971-7718
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    Tel: (416) 971-7601 Ext. 303

    Nadira Khan
    MD, CCFP

    We doctors and staff here at WeliPoint Family Practice proudly serve patients of all ages, with all manner of
    illness and across the remarkable spectrum of multiculturalism and languages that makes Ontario and
    Toronto the envy of so many. Ontarios doctors have been working without a contract since March 2014. This
    Provincial Government has unilaterally imposed cuts, claw backs and restrictions on your doctors that are
    now going to directly and immediately affect the care I can deliver to you. This government refuses to
    adequately fund healthcare, even though they acknowledge that health care costs will rise because of our
    growing and aging population and the increased demand for care by you, our patients.
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    What will this look like for you? As you know, we have been a fully electronic Health Care Clinic for many
    years. We are proud of our investment in this modernization and we had planned on moving forward by
    implementing access online for appointment bookings. But, since the Ministry of Health has recently
    withdrawn funding to offset the huge costs of the software licenses, IT support and hardware, we are not
    able to roll out any further services of this kind. So well have to ask you to pay for each and every printout
    of your results, emails, and all other uninsured services. There is a way we can continue to subsidize this
    cost cutting our stall an-I .i ic h,urs, which we will not do. We will not be able to subsidize atter hours
    flu shot clinics this year as we have in the past. We cant afford the extra cost of staffing. So we would please
    ask that you get your shot at our office during a regularly scheduled appointment or at your local pharmacy.

    Jean Marmoreo
    MD, CCFP
    Allison McGee
    MD, CCFP, EM

    Tel: (416) 969-3240


    Audrey Karhnsky
    MD CCFP FCFP
    Rae Lake
    MD, CCFP, FCFP
    Monica Pearl
    MD, CCFP, FCFP

    Tel: (416) 969-3250

    Please also understand that anytime you go to a walk-in clinic the monies charged by those doctors come
    out of my funding for your care. Yes, I pay for your visits to other clinics! Our office is open Monday-Friday
    8am-7pm. We book same day appointments and we have walk-in hours for our patients with urgent care
    needs from 5-7pm. The afte hours clinic is for urgent medical problems that cannot wait until I am next
    available for you to see me. Please honor your commitment to me by using only our clinic for your health
    care needs. For urgent probiems on Saturdays and Sundays, I do understand that some visits to walk in
    clinics are unavoidable. But please call our designated TeleHealth nurse at 1-866-553-7205 before you visit
    the walk in clinic for advice. This may avoid an unnecessary visit and it keeps your health care records
    centralized in your electronic chart. That is part of the full service care we want to provide. You know that
    my colleagues and I work long hours outside of the clinic here at WellPoint. Several of us are busy nights,
    weekends and holidays deli ring your babies, staffing the emergency department, sports medicine clinics
    in our community, and teaching mindful meditation. We teach medical students and residents to ensure that
    there is a next generation of caring and competent practitioners to serve your health care needs. We attend
    Continuing Medical Education courses at our expense, so that we stay up to date with the myriad of
    advances happening in Healthcare. We serve on hospital committees and most importantly we advocate
    tirelessly for you whenever you need care. You can remain secure that no matter what cuts the government
    imposes, your health care will remai my priority!
    .

    Christopher Culligan

    D CC
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    FCFP

    Mary Rubino-Sullivan
    MD, CCFP, FCFP

    rlease LdKC a nionlt. i now to e.nipi te tue jorm on me otner siae or tnis letter Ims year more tnan ever
    Im asking each and every one of you to pay the annual fee so that I can continue to provide the level of
    service you have come to expect. The fee is good value and avoids the delays that occur when we must

    request payments from you for individual services.


    On the Annual Fee Remittance form on the other side of this letter you will also find a consent form for
    those patients 16 years of age and older. By signing this consent you are allowing us to release your
    healthcare information to you via outbound email (unsecured email) at your request. Please note that this
    service will only be offered to patients who pay the annual fee.

    Tel: (416) 969-3260


    Aliya Hasham
    MD, CCFP
    Evelyn Rubin
    MD, CCFP
    Nandini Sathi
    MD, CCFP, FCFP,
    Dip. Sport Med

    Thank-you for your understanding and support. It is my great privilege to be your Family Doctor.
    Respectfully Yours,

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    Nandini Sathi MD CCFP FCFP, Dip. Sport Med

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