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Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli announces $1.2 million in funding
Published Jul 26, 2025 • 3 minute read
Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli announced $1.2 million to provide 1,950 North Bay and Area residents with access to a nurse practitioner or a primary health team. Photo by FILE /jpg, SH, apsmcArticle content
A $1.2 million provincial investment will provide 1,950 North Bay and Area residents with access to a nurse practitioner or a primary health team.
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Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli made the announcement last week. This investment is part of the government’s Primary Care Action Plan that will help connect 300,000 people across the province to primary care.
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“Our government has been making historic investments to protect our health care system, taking bold and innovative action to make it easier for patients and families to connect to care,” Fedeli said. “Our investment in primary care is another way we are growing our province’s highly skilled workforce and ensuring people and families have access to high-quality care, closer to home, for generations to come.”
Fedeli announced $477,800 to North Bay Nurse Practitioner – Led Clinic Inc. to connect 1075-1200 patients with a primary care team.
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The North Bay Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic is proposing to increase attachment in a two-phased approach.
In phase one, they are proposing the addition of one full-time equivalent nurse practitioner and one full-time equivalent registered practical nurse and are looking to attach 200 to 300 patients within the P1A area code.
In phase two, they are planning to leverage additional administrative staff and digital tool integration to increase front line clinical time for new and existing providers, which would enable them to attach between 1000 to 1200 patients.
They will also be hiring a medical receptionist with this funding to support connecting patients to their clinic and ensuring timely access to appointments.
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The North Bay Indigenous Hub – Giiwedno Mshkikiiwgamig will receive $714,700 to assist between 675-750 patients with a primary care team.
The expanded team will offer more visits to communities including Nipissing First Nation, Dokis First Nation and Temagami First Nation, as well as roster Indigenous patients that are on the wait list from North Bay.
To further meet the needs of their Indigenous population, the team plans to secure unattached patients through the support of the hospital, local Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic, and the local Primary Care Network group, who have Indigenous identified patients on their waitlist as well.
Further, the North Bay Indigenous Hub will continue to roster Indigenous newborns and new mothers without primary care, as well as increase awareness in the community through advertising and community engagement events to share information about rostering.
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“These primary care teams were funded through a recent call for proposals focused on communities identified by postal code with the highest number of residents not connected to primary care, including those on the Health Care Connect waitlist,” according to a media release issued by Fedeli.
“Each successful team has established a plan to attach a high proportion of unattached people in their postal codes and demonstrated readiness to achieve significant progress within a year.”
Jaymie-lynn Blanchard, NP-PHC, MScN Clinic Director and Nurse Practitioner with the North Bay Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic said they are grateful for the recent investments to expand primary care teams in Ontario, which will significantly enhance access to timely, high quality for many unattached patients.
“This additional funding will allow our clinic to connect more patients with a nurse practitioner and have access to additional services delivered by our dedicated interdisciplinary health care team. We look forward to expanding our reach in the community and welcoming more new patients to the clinic in the coming months.”
Laureen Linklaker-Pizzale, Exceutive Director of the North Bay Indigenous Hub this will allow us to hire an Indigenous health care provider and professionals to support the health needs our growing population and to support them in a culturally safe way.”
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