Funding is expected to help the Sault Community Health Centre connect people with primary care<\/p>\n
Funding from the provincial government will aim to help nearly 2,000 people in the Sault get primary care.<\/p>\n
In an announcement this morning by MPP Chris Scott, the province is funding $807,000 locally as part of its Primary Care Action Plan.<\/p>\n
The provincial plan has a goal of connecting 300,000 people with primary care this year. The local funding is expected to help connect up to 1,950 people with primary care in the Sault.<\/p>\n
The Sault Community Health Centre, a non-profit, charitable organization,\u00a0provides patient-centred, primary care services to marginalized, unattached patients.<\/p>\n
The centre works with social agencies to help address patients needs and will put a process in place to accept new patients.<\/p>\n
“This investment in the Sault community Health Centre will expand access to primary care, and bring more health professionals to northern Ontario, ensuring that more patients have a trusted health-care provider close to home,” Scott said.<\/p>\n
Founded in 2023, the SCHC currently has a local physician, a registered nurse, a social worker, a receptionist, and an executive director.<\/p>\n
The funding will allow the centre to add staff, which will allow the facility to expand hours through evening groups and clinics, walk-in services, and advance scheduling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Funding is expected to help the Sault Community Health Centre connect people with primary care Funding from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,52928],"class_list":["post-89498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-sault-community-health-centresault-mpp-chris-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89498","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=89498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}