Primary Care Pop Up – Carbonear Impact Clinic
The Strengthening Primary Care program brought together 20 teams of primary care providers, organizations and communities from northern, rural and remote communities across Canada to improve access to primary care.
- Topics
- Primary and community care
- First Nations, Inuit and Métis priorities
- Cultural Safety
- Audience
Healthcare leader
Community organization
Point of care provider
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With support from the program, the teams introduced promising practices — approaches that improved access to safe, including culturally safe, team-based primary care — by meeting the unique needs of communities, patients and providers while encouraging collaboration and shared learning across Canada. One of the 20 teams (Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services) advanced five unique promising practices to respond to the needs of people and providers throughout their province.
About this Promising Practice
The Carbonear Family Care Team (CFCT) and Carbonear General Hospital ED created the Carbonear Impact Clinic (CIC). Private community physicians agreed to work shifts in the CIC on a rotational basis. Patients are triaged from the ED to this clinic when care needs are appropriate for primary care assessment. Patients are seen through the CIC instead of the ED and receive care for their acute needs while also being offered preventative screenings (such as Pap smears and cancer screenings) and chronic disease management (e.g., optimizing treatment for diabetes, heart disease, chronic lung disease, etc.). Patients without a family doctor are also added to the provincial registry, Patient Connect NL.
Program: Strengthening Access to Primary Care in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities
Location: Conception Bay North, Newfoundland & Labrador