B2- Primary Care Networks in OHT acceleration. Engagement strategies, challenges and opportunities. Experiences from the North York Toronto Health Partners and the Greater Hamilton Health Network.

2. Supporting the implementation of primary care networks

  • Date: 2024-10-24
  • Concurrent Session:  Concurrent Session B
  • Time: 3:45– 4:30 pm
  • Room:
  • Style: Presentation (information provided to audience, with opportunity for audience to ask question)
  • Focus: Practical (e.g. Presentation on how to implement programs and/or practices in the team environment)
  • Target Audience: Leadership (ED, clinical lead, board chair, board member, etc.), Clinical providers
     

Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn: 

  • Learn how to organize and evolve a primary care network with an iterative governance structure.
  • Identify strategies to engage primary care communities to participate in and join the Primary Care Network (PCN).
  • Learn how the PCN can be at the core of OHT work through disseminated leadership and participation among OHT committees. 
  • Identify key supports required for the success of the PCN. 

Summary/Abstract:
As we face a Primary Care workforce crisis in Ontario, never has it been more critical to reflect on and listen to the needs of providers and patients in the development of integrated health care programs.  With the evolution of PCNs in Ontario, we have a chance to bring together our communitys' collective voice in the design of such initiatives.      Primary care has been foundational in the formation of the North York Toronto Health Partners (NYTHP) and the Greater Hamilton Health Network (GHHRN) OHTs.  We will review the early strategies used to engage our primary care community and challenges encountered.      As two of 12 OHTs chosen to move forward toward acceleration, we will detail the process of working through the PCN readiness assessments and the subsequent PCN action plans that evolved, which highlights the work plan and strategy for the year ahead.  We will discuss the necessary supports both funded and in kind that have enabled growth and transformation of the NYTHP and GHHRN PCNs. 
 

Presenter:

  • Maria Muraca    MSc, MD, CCFP, FCFP, Medical Director NYFHT and co-chair PCN    NYFHT, NYTHP OHT    
  • Rebecca Stoller    MD, CFPC, FCFP, co-chair PCN     NYTHP OHT
  • Jennifer Winter Di Cola     BSc, MSc, MScPT, Director of Primary Care Transformation, NYTHP OHT
  • Marijke Jurriaans    BHSc, MSc, Manager, Primary Care, Mental Health and Addictions, Environmental Sustainability,     Greater Hamilton Health Network
  • Brian McKenna    MD, MSc, CCFP, Lead Physician, Hamilton Family Health Team, Chair, GHHN Primary Care Stakeholder Council