{"id":56565,"date":"2025-08-09T09:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56565\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T09:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:06:21","slug":"waterloo-region-health-teams-get-4-1m-from-ontario-to-connect-people-to-primary-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56565\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo region health teams get $4.1M from Ontario to connect people to primary care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/kitchener-waterloo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kitchener-Waterloo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ontario government has announced $4.1 million for health teams in Waterloo region to help them connect people to primary care providers. The funding is based on a recent call for proposals from communities where it was found there were a high number of people without a primary health-care provider.<\/p>\n<p>MPP Mike Harris says funding will connect people &#8216;to the care they deserve&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Aug 05, 2025 11:41 AM EDT | Last Updated: August 5<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two people stand at a podium.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mike-harris-and-jess-dixon.jpeg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Kitchener-Conestoga MPP and Minister of Natural Resources Mike Harris, left, along with Kitchener-South Hespeler MPP Jess Dixon, on Tuesday announced funding to local health teams to help them connect more people with a primary health-care provider. (John Dalusong\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>Several health teams in Waterloo region will split $4.1 million in funding from the Ontario government to help connect people with primary health-care providers.<\/p>\n<p>Kitchener-Conestoga MPP\u00a0and Minister of Natural Resources Mike Harris made the announcement on Tuesday at the HART (homeless and addiction recovery treatment) hub in Kitchener.<\/p>\n<p>The funding comes after the province put out a call for proposals where it was found there were the highest number of people on waitlists for primary care providers.<\/p>\n<p>The local groups to receive funding are:<\/p>\n<p>   Community Healthcaring Kitchener-Waterloo, which operates the HART hub.   New Vision Family Health Team in Kitchener.   Waterloo Region Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic in Cambridge.   Woolwich Community Health Centre.  <\/p>\n<p>In a release, Harris said the funding will help those health teams &#8220;connect thousands of residents across Waterloo region to the care they deserve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The province said the funding is part of a $2.1-billion plan to connect everyone in the province to a publicly funded family doctor or primary care team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kitchener-Waterloo The Ontario government has announced $4.1 million for health teams in Waterloo region to help them connect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-56565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}