Strengthening Primary Care with Healthcare Excellence Canada
The Pacific Northwest Division of Family Practice (PNWDoFP) is pleased to have been accepted into the Promising Practices for Strengthening Primary Care in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities program, offered by Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC).
Strengthening Primary Care in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities (Strengthening Primary Care) brings together 20 teams from across Canada to advance their unique improvement goals and share and learn with others. Participants in this program receive tailored support to advance a promising practice to improve equitable access to safe, including culturally safe, high-quality team-based primary care closer to home.
This program helps to drive adoption and spread of promising practices that are improving access to primary care in Canada to meet unique needs and goals of communities, patients and providers. Examples of possible program impacts include:
Improved access to team-based primary care
Improved patient and provider experiences of care
Safer, including more culturally safe, care
Reduced avoidable emergency department visits
The Promise of Practice of the PNWDoFP, a collaboration of three new Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in the Pacific Northwest of BC, and Metabolic Syndrome Canada, is to advance an implementation and evaluation plan of the CHANGE Program, to improve equitable access to culturally safe, high-quality primary care closer to home.
The CHANGE BC protocol includes:
1) individualized, culturally safe, graded nutrition and exercise coaching
2) implementation of the program in a collaborative way that strengthens community of practice between health professionals
3) co-creation of pentagram + community, patients, providers, academic partnerships that sustain enduring models of CHANGE, in alignment with the Quintuple AIM.
Greater integration of CHANGE into primary care networks in British Columbia can proactively treat the symptoms that later manifest in cardiovascular disease, Type ll Diabetes, and other chronic health conditions.
The support, coaching, and knowledge sharing provided by HEC and the other teams in the program are invaluable in moving our work forward.
