The Ontario government says it’s moving ahead with its Primary Care Action Plan, announcing more than $2.3 million this year <\/p>\n
New funding will assist the Group Health Centre to continue\u00a0to roster patients in the Sault and surrounding area.<\/p>\n
Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Bill Rosenberg made the $2.3 million announcement on Friday at the main GHC building on McNabb Street.<\/p>\n
Although Rosenberg is not the MPP for Sault Ste. Marie, he made the announcement as the closest Ontario PC representative of the ruling provincial government.<\/p>\n
Rosenberg said many residents in his riding are serviced by the GHC.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t even realize that until I had to use their services \u2014 it’s not just for the city of Sault Ste. Marie,\u00a0it’s for the whole area, so that’s\u00a0important work that they do here for sure.”<\/p>\n
Group Health Centre CEO Lil Silvano said the new funding builds on a previous announcement that secured provincial dollars for the Access Care Clinic, GHC’s Grow Your Own Nurse Practitioner initiative and for retention.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of the Access Care Clinic we have been able to provide care to these patients, but our main goal is to attach them to a primary care provider, which is exactly what this funding does,” said Silvano.<\/p>\n
She said the previous one-time, two-year funding was extended by the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey did extend it to fund our\u00a0clinic for this year. That aligns with our plans in ensuring those patients are able to transition to a primary care provider,\u201d said Silvano.<\/p>\n
The news release is below:\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Ontario government is taking the next steps to deliver its Primary Care Action Plan, which is on track to connect everyone in the province to a family doctor or primary care provider by 2029.<\/p>\n
As part of this plan to connect everyone in Ontario to a publicly funded family doctor or primary care team, the Ontario government is investing more than $2,300,900 this year to connect up to 7,901\u00a0people to primary care in Sault Ste. Marie.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis funding is part of our government\u2019s plan to connect every person in Ontario to publicly funded primary care by 2029. Under the leadership of Premier Ford, our government is protecting Ontario\u2019s health care system and people\u2019s access to convenient care by funding new and expanded primary care teams, helping connect everyone in Ontario to a primary care provider,\u201d Algoma-Manitoulin\u00a0MPP Bill Rosenberg said.<\/p>\n
Sault Ste. Marie and\u00a0District Group Health Association will establish a process to accept new patients and will communicate this to their local community.<\/p>\n
The Sault Ste. Marie and\u00a0District Group Health Association was funded through the latest call for proposals under the Primary Care Action Plan, with all 124 teams receiving funding expected to connect another 500,000 patients to primary care across Ontario. Each team has established a plan to attach a high proportion of unattached people in their community, including those on the Health Care Connect waitlist.<\/p>\n
Through the 2026 Budget, the province is also increasing overall funding for the plan to a total of $3.4 billion between 2025 and 2029.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis investment represents a significant milestone in strengthening primary care and improving health outcomes in our community. We sincerely thank the Ministry of Health for its leadership and ongoing commitment to primary care, and for supporting healthier communities across the province.\u201d said Lil Silvano, CEO Group Health Centre.<\/p>\n
The province has also exceeded its 2025-2026 attachment goal under the Primary Care Action Plan, which was to connect 300,000 patients to a primary care provider by March 31. As of Jan. 1, the province has already attached 330,000 people to care in 2025-2026, surpassing its goal by more than 30,000 with three months still to go.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough our Primary Care Action Plan, we are connecting more people to care and have already exceeded our 2025-26 attachment target,\u201d said Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy connecting more families to care in Sault Ste. Marie, our government is taking the next step toward connecting everyone in the province to primary care by 2029.\u201d<\/p>\n
Through Your Health: A Plan for Connected and Convenient Care, the Ontario government continues to take bold and decisive action to grow the province\u2019s highly skilled health-care workforce and ensure people and their families have access to high-quality care, closer to home, for generations to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ontario government says it’s moving ahead with its Primary Care Action Plan, announcing more than $2.3 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,230020],"class_list":{"0":"post-610503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-lil-silvanompp-bill-rosenberg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610503","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=610503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}