City of Kawartha Lakes Family Health Team

Provides complete health care services to families and their communities.

Programs and Services:

• Mindful Self Compassion - 8 session group mental wellness therapy program led by social workers.
• Get W.I.T.H It Walking Group - patients of all ages and fitness levels walk for healthy exercise in a warm, safe environment during the winter months in the care of a health professional onsite.
• Memory Clinic - "one stop" patient care from a team of health professionals trained to assess memory and cognitive impairment as well as factors that impact memory.
• Heart Failure Care - service helps provide care for patients living with heart failure.
• Exercise is Medicine - program helps adult patients increase their physical activity.
• Lipid Management - program teaches the Canadian Cardiovascular Society's Guidelines on cholesterol management strategies, including the Mediterranean Dietary Pattern, ways to change risk factors, and recommended medication therapies.
• Smoking Cessation - program helps patients understand the underlying reasons for smoking, develop a "quit plan" and select a "quit date".
• Foot Care - Healthy Feet and You - For "most at risk" patients (e.g. diabetes) and those who cannot care for their feet or afford chiropody. Circulation, skin and nail conditions will be monitored.
• Healthy Lung-Asthma/COPD Education - Individual referral visits help patients learn to manage their asthma or COPD
• Anticoagulant Clinic - provides patient education and point-of-care INR testing for patients taking warfarin.
• Breastfeeding Clinic - provides support for families at all stages of their feeding journey.