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Fuel Your Day on a Budget: Breakfast Quesadilla Recipe
On May 2, we kicked off our very first Just Walk event, powered by Walk with a Doc at Bayfront Park—a free, one-hour walking program designed to bring the community together while promoting better health.
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Introducing: Our New Strategic Plan, 2025-2028
We are thrilled to share our new Strategic Plan! Leading the way to a healthier community through team-based primary health care – that’s our new vision. And we’re so excited to share this with you as we look towards the next three years, together. This new plan puts you – our patients, our providers, and…
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Four Benefits of Walking: Join our Just Walk Program!
On May 2, we kicked off our very first Just Walk event, powered by Walk with a Doc at Bayfront Park—a free, one-hour walking program designed to bring the community together while promoting better health.
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Hey Hamilton – Just Walk with us
Just Walk (powered by Walk with a Doc) – is an international organization that offers free walking programs in communities around the world led by local doctors, healthcare providers, or medical students. At the Hamilton Family Health Team (HFHT), we’ve just started a new chapter of Just Walk – and you’re invited to join us!…
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HFHT and GHHN PCN partners recognized for connecting over 15,500 people to primary care!
In March of 2024, our joint funding proposal with primary care providers across the Greater Hamilton Health Network (GHHN) was successful, receiving $2.2 million from Ontario Health to expand primary care teams across the GHHN. Over the last year, in partnership with the Greater Hamilton Health Network Primary Care Network (GHHN PCN), we have connected over 15,500…
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Notice for Patients and the Public: Be Wary of Scam Healthcare Websites
in PublicA new scam website, healthdoc.ca, is using AI to generate fake profiles of real family doctors and healthcare providers both locally and nationally, including providers who are members of the Hamilton Family Health Team. Do not enter your information, including personal details, health details, or credit card numbers, into healthdoc.ca. Your family doctor will never…
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Interview with Dr. Olawale Ayeni
To wrap up Black History Month 2025, we sat down with Dr. Olawale Ayeni, one of our family physicians here at the Hamilton Family Health Team. Dr. Ayeni has been a family doctor for 33 years, in Nigeria, the United States, and Canada, moving to Hamilton in 2011. He provides primary care to patients at…
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We’re recruiting new Board Members!
in PublicJoin our Board to work with a dedicated group of volunteer leaders who are giving back to our Hamilton community. Who are we? Hamilton Family Health Team (HFHT), our not-for-profitorganization, is the largest Family Health Team in Ontario, withover 250 interdisciplinary primary healthcare professionals, whowork in partnership with 165 family physicians, serving nearlyhalf of the…
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Free health groups and workshops – January
in PublicWhile you’re making New Years resolutions – how about taking charge of your health and wellbeing by joining free health groups and workshops? The Hamilton Family Health Team’s groups and workshops are completely free, open to the public, and offer both in-person and virtual options. There are both daytime and nighttime sessions to fit your…
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We’ve Been Going To The Library.
Last Friday, Michele, one of our Registered Dietitians presented Budget-Friendly Cooking Tips at the Terryberry Branch. 🥗 Another week, one of our Physiotherapists, Justin, was with us at the central branch to talk about physiotherapy options in Hamilton, answer questions about muscle and bone health, and test grip strength. 💪 We run groups at Hamilton…
