Unlike a family doctor's office, which deals just with primary care, Ottawa’s Centretown Community Health Centre teams family physicians with other health professionals, leaving doctors to focus on medical issues while patients access care under one roof. The Ottawa centre's mission is to assist with health and complex social needs of clients who could be turned away by doctors restricted to the standard, short appointments. The clinic’s set up as a not-for-profit where full-time and part-time physicians and NPs are employees of the centre. Physicians are also salaried in a different way from their fee-for-service counterparts, giving them a stable income plus pension and benefits. There are about 120 CHCs across Canada. The model's part of a shifting landscape of front-line care, one that many doctors say puts the patient first.
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May 23, 2023