Webinars: Strengthening Access to Primary Care in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities Promising Practice
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
Healthcare teams across Canada are enhancing access to safe, team-based primary care in northern, rural and remote communities.
This series is for healthcare leaders, providers, policymakers, and community partners looking to consider how to adapt and apply evidence-informed solutions in their own settings.
Join us in this two-part webinar series to learn about some of the promising practices that have improved access to team-based primary care in their communities.
We’ll discuss:
Details about the practices, including evaluation and impacts
Key success factors and lessons learned to support implementation, sustainability and spread.
Common and unique strategies the teams used to embed community, health workforce and Indigenous partnerships into their practices.
Ways the practices could be adapted and applied elsewhere.
Part 1:
March 19, 2025 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET
Speakers/Panelists
Larry K. Bremner (Métis), Partner, Proactive Information Services Inc. and program coach
Linda E. Lee, Partner, Proactive Information Services Inc. and program coach
Janine van den Heuvel, Chief Executive Officer, Algonquin Family Health Team
Maya Nakajima, Government of Nunavut
Jessica Brennan, Regional Manager, Conception Bay North, Placentia & Whitbourne, NL Health Services
Hosts
Colleen Ferris, Director, Innovations and Strategic Development, Healthcare Excellence Canada
Part 2:
March 27, 2025, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET
Speakers/Panelists
Larry K. Bremner (Métis), Partner, Proactive Information Services Inc. and program coach
Linda E. Lee, Partner, Proactive Information Services Inc. and program coach
Isabelle Gaboury PhD, Professor, Université de Sherbrooke
Dr. Jonathan Fitzsimon, Medical Lead, Integrated Virtual Care
Frederic Lemieux, Assistant Director of Professional Service and Quality Assurance-Health, Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay
Host
Jennifer Major, Senior Program Lead, Innovations and Strategic Development, Healthcare Excellence Canada