Can one really plan ahead for a trip to the Emergency Department?
Join Dr. Peter Barnett on Wednesday, November 21st to learn how, and share your thoughts on ED service, access and flow.
Free, public education sessions on a broad range of health and wellness topics, the Northumberland PACE talks are attracting a growing community of regular attendees, in part because topic ideas are “crowdsourced” from patients and others looking for information on the subjects they want to explore.
Lasting an hour in length, each PACE event consists of a 30-minute talk, a 20-minute questionand-answer period with the speaker and a 10-minute moderator summary. PACE talks start at 5:30 PM on the third Wednesday of each month, from September through June, and rotate between Cobourg (at NHH, 1000 DePalma Drive) and Port Hope (at the Community Health Centres of Northumberland, 99 Toronto Road).
This month’s PACE talk will take place on Wednesday, November 21st with speaker Dr. Peter Barnett, Department Chief of the Northumberland Hills Hospital Emergency Department. Dr. Barnett’s topic—“How to Prepare for your trip to the Emergency Department”—is appropriate for any time of the year, but it’s especially relevant as we head into the busy flu and holiday season.
Learn what you and your family should bring with you if you have the opportunity to prepare for your trip to the Emergency, the triage process used to prioritize who needs to be seen first and more. Bring your questions, your suggestions and your experience and join in what is expected to be a lively discussion about Emergency services in your community.
All PACE talks are free, but pre-registration is required to manage room capacity. Registration for the November 2018 session is now open at www.pacetalks.com, where you’ll also find a listing of the full 2018/19 speaker and topic line-up and—coming soon—video highlights from recent talks.