McGuinty Government To Create 25 Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics
Three new nurse practitioner-led clinics in Belle River, Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay are strengthening family health care for Ontario families.
The three clinics focus on comprehensive primary care services, including chronic disease management and health promotion. They are the first of 25 new clinics that will come into operation by 2011/12. The remaining 22 clinics will begin to move forward in the spring.
Nurse practitioner-led clinics are a team-based approach to front line health care. Nurse practitioners work with other health care professionals, such as family doctors, to provide quality care closer to home.
Ontarians will be connected to nurse practitioner clinics through:
- Health Care Connect, a new program to help people find a family health care provider
- Your Health Care Options, a new source that enables Ontarians to make informed decisions about where to go for minor illnesses or injury
