The province is investing 235-million dollars to support over 130 new and expanded primary care teams in Ontario.
The Health Ministry says that will connect 300,000 people to primary care this year. Specific location details haven’t been announced, but teams were selected through a recent call for proposals focused on communities—identified by postal code—with the highest number of residents not connected to primary care.
Codes in our region were represented in the process.
These include postal codes beginning with K0L, K0K and KOM.
The ministry says successful teams have an established plan to attach a high proportion of unattached people in their postal codes and that they demonstrated readiness to achieve significant progress within a year.
With files from Mary Milne
