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# Overview
The challenges faced by health care organizations, including fiscal restraint, a growing population, and difficulty recruiting and retaining staff, are fueling a crisis of access to primary health care. In response to this crisis, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Ontario Health granted funding for Interprofessional Primary Care Team (IPCT) expansion to selected organizations across Ontario.
The resources in this toolkit were collected by the Alliance for Healthier Communities to help our member organizations make the strategic and operational decisions necessary to implement their expansion plans. These tools are intended to supplement the tools provided by Ontario Health. Many of them were shared by Alliance member organizations or created with their help. We are grateful to our members for their eagerness to share their experiences and learnings with others.
# Other Supports from the Alliance for Healthier Communities
In addition to this toolkit, the Alliance is offering a variety of ongoing supports for members who are part of the IPCT expansion process. These include:
- A community of practice for peer-based knowledge exchange.
- Individualized quality improvement (QI) coaching. Our Quality Improvement and Performance Leads (QIP Leads) offer teaching & mentoring, facilitation, help with performance measurement, and capacity-building to help you sustain improvement.
To learn more or get connected, reach out to us at QI@AllianceON.org.
Complementary Toolkit from Health Commons Solutions Lab
Since the publication of this toolkit, another toolkit for primary care expansion was published by The Health Commons Solutions Lab, which can be used as a complementary resource. It features tools and case studies organized around the following themes: Expanding Access and Attachment to Primary Care, Creating your Implementation Plan, Outreach and Attachment, and Supporting Patients and Providers with Navigation. It also features a selection of case examples of different access & attachment models. A number of these are from Alliance member organizations.
We welcome your feedback! Please complete this survey or send an email to LHS@AllianceON.org to share your experience using this toolkit.
