Program overview :

Participating Teams

Healthcare Excellence Canada invited 20 teams to participate in Strengthening Primary Care, a program designed to improve access to safe, including culturally safe, team-based primary care closer to home and meet the unique needs of northern, rural and remote communities.

Participating organizations and communities received:

• seed funding (up to $50,000 per team)
• virtual and in-person networking, coaching, and learning events to promote pan-Canadian, regional, and community-level sharing and collaborations
• resources and capability-building supports
• measurement and evaluation support
• opportunities to guide and inform development of new resources to help strengthen team-based primary care

Program activities ran from November 2023 to September 2024.

Meet the teams

The following organizations and communities were invited to participate in the Strengthening Primary Care program.

Alberta

• Alberta Health Services (Calgary, Alberta)

British Columbia

• Líl̓wat Health and Healing (Mount Currie, British Columbia)
• Northern Interior Rural Division of Family Practice (Prince George, British Columbia)
• Pacific Northwest Division of Family Practice Society (Terrace, British Columbia)
• Rural Coordination Centre of British Columbia (RCCbc) (Vancouver, British Columbia)
• Vancouver Island Health Authority (Port Hardy, British Columbia)

Manitoba

• Cross Lake Band Health Services (Cross Lake, Manitoba)
• Prairie Mountain Health (Ste. Rose, Manitoba)

New Brunswick

• Horizon Health Network (Fredericton, New Brunswick)

Newfoundland and Labrador

• Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services (NLHS) (Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador)

Nova Scotia

• Nova Scotia Health (Antigonish, Nova Scotia)

Nunavut

• Government of Nunavut (Iqaluit, Nunavut)

Ontario

• Algonquin Family Health Team (Huntsville, Ontario)
• Sunset Country Family Health Team (Kenora, Ontario)
• ConnectWell Community Health (Beachburg, Ontario)
• Petawawa Centennial Family Health Centre (Petawawa, Ontario)
• Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (Moose Factory, Ontario)

Quebec

• CISSS Montérégie Centre (Longueuil, Quebec)
• Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay (Chisasibi, Quebec)

Saskatchewan

• Saskatchewan Health Authority (Weyburn, Saskatchewan)