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The next event in the OAC’s 2021 Monthly Update Webinar Series is on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 8:00pm.  The focus of this webinar will be the OAC’s advocacy to improve the Echocardiography Quality Improvement (EQI) Program Facility Agreement recently circulated by Accreditation Canada Diagnostics.  Join us to receive an

OAC representatives met with officials from the Office of the Auditor General of Ontario (OAGO) regarding the audit it is conducting this year on cardiac and stroke care in Ontario.  The audit, which was initiated in 2020 but suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will focus on the work of

The Ontario Association of Cardiologists (OAC) supports a draft recommendation issued by Ontario Health (OH) calling for public funding of the use of natriuretic peptide (BNP or NT-proBNP) testing for the diagnosis of people with suspected heart failure in the community and emergency department settings. At the present time, Ontario

The OAC received a letter from General (Ret’d) Rick Hillier, Chair of the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Task Force in reply to the OAC’s January 24, 2021 letter, which advocated for health care professionals and administrative staff working in community cardiology clinics to be prioritized within the provincial government’s vaccine distribution

The Ontario Association of Cardiologists (OAC) is calling for health care professionals and staff working in community cardiology clinics to be prioritized within Phase 1 of the province’s COVID-19 vaccination distribution program.  These clinic staff who, like hospital-based workers, come into direct physical contact with patients in delivering essential health

The Ontario Ministry of Health has announced it will delay the recovery of monies it provided to Ontario physicians via the COVID-19 advance payment program.  Recovery payments will now begin in April 2021 (not February 2021).  The program, which provided advance payments in the form of a loan to Ontario