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When a Physiotherapist/Clinic Should Contact the SGI Medical Facilitator
Reports are required to be paid by the Personal Injury Representative (PIR) upon receipt. If there is a delay, contact the Medical Facilitator for assistance.
If requesting more than 2 interventions per day, this can be accommodated by communication with the PIR on the file, providing supporting rationale. If it is not approved by the PIR, and the Physiotherapist (PT) feels strongly, contact the Medical Facilitator for assistance.
A customer should be discharged from treatment when they are no longer showing gains. If the PIR is insisting that the PT continue with treatment, contact the Medical Facilitator for assistance.
For any billing issues that cannot be resolved between the PT/Clinic and the PIR, contact the Medical Facilitator for assistance.
- North Medical Facilitator (Saskatoon Rehabilitation Services) Stacey Forgrave 306-683-2191
- South Medical Facilitator (Regina Rehabilitation Services) Renee Wollbaum 306-775-6476
It is that time of year when we are asking for your assistance in discovering the special talents in the Physiotherapy community!
The deadline to submit a nomination for the SPA awards is Friday, March 1, 2019.
Nominations for awards can be submitted to Jodie Munro, SPA Administrative Assistant, via email (spaadmin@saskphysio.org).
There are 8 award categories. The Terms of Reference for each award can be viewed on the SPA website: http://saskphysio.org/spa-awards-2019
Did you know you can be part of this online resource?
Your membership of the Saskatchewan Physiotherapy Association gives you inclusion in this highly utilized database.
If you are not included in this database, please click here to complete the profile form. Once complete, email to spaadmin@saskphysio.org
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The SASKATCHEWAN PELVIC HEALTH MENTORSHIP PROGRAM Has Launched
Have you recently completed your Pelvic Health certification? Did you complete the certification a while ago but have not really integrated it into your practice and would like to start? Have you been a Pelvic Health physiotherapist for a while and have questions, cases you would like to discuss, ideas to bounce around? The Saskatchewan Pelvic Health Mentorship Program can assist you to get comfortable as you get going or provide opportunity to further challenge and develop your clinical reasoning, decision making and problem solving for the more complicated clients on your caseload.
We have a group of experienced Pelvic Health therapists who would like to help! As a mentorship group, we have a passion for Pelvic Health and enjoy sharing ideas, problem solving together and discussing successes and challenges. Our mentorship program has been created to support you and your learning goals. The mentorship can take a variety of approaches and can be a short- or longer-term experience. The direction and type of mentorship process is developed by the mentee and mentor to ensure that it will meet your needs.
As a physiotherapy community, we do a good job of learning from each other in many formal and informal environments. The world of Pelvic Health Physiotherapy can sometimes be a bit isolating and challenging. The introductory certification course is a great start, but it really doesn’t equip us particularly well for the complexities of integrated clinical practice. In many other areas of physiotherapy, we get the theory and skills introduced and then have opportunity to have a supervised clinical experience prior to independence. We are not suggesting this is necessary but perhaps mentorship and support can help you to feel comfortable and it might enhance your confidence and abilities to care for patients!
If you feel you might like to consider this program or talk about it further please feel free to contact Christine Epp, SPHMP coordinator, at christine@wwphysiotherapy.ca for more information.
The Healthy Aging Forum 2019 will be held in Charlottetown, PEI from June 27 - 29
Once again this year, the SPA is pleased to offer our members four (4) Professional Development Allowances of $1750 each to assist with the costs of attending this national event.
To view the criteria for application, click here.
The deadline to submit your letter of application (spaadmin@saskphysio.org ) is Friday, March 15, 2019.
The program for this event can be viewed here, the SPA will inform the chosen bursary recipients and assist with the registration process
Worksafe - Potential Opportunity for SPA Members
In the fall of 2018, the association was approached by WorkSafe Saskatchewan to discuss a partnership opportunity. There is a strong mandate from the WCB to invest in prevention initiatives. The Saskatchewan Physiotherapy Association is consistently seeking opportunities to increase the profile of physiotherapy.
The SPA met with the WCB Director of Prevention and the WorkSafe Project Manager in October and invited to consider a partnership opportunity to address injury prevention initiatives. WorkSafe Saskatchewan has been targeting high-injury industries to identify opportunities to promote injury-prevention activities. WCB recognizes partnerships with external agencies are a key factor in developing relevant, industry-driven initiatives. WCB requested a focus and exploration on the prevention of police officer leg and back injuries with the Regina Police Service (RPS). An additional meeting with WCB, SPA and the RPS was held in late November. This information was then taken to the SPA board of directors’ December meeting for discussion in December and January. The board fully supported this initiative.
An email was sent to the entire SPA membership December 06, 2018 with a general message about the scope of work seeking interested members. We were very pleased with the immediate response and feedback from our members: one member wrote, “It’s fantastic that SPA is partnering on such a unique and interesting project.” And another member suggested, “…I believe this type of initiative is very valuable.” A background and information document was provided to all members that expressed interest...Read More
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