Advancing the Patient Medical Home Model in Rural Saskatchewan: Insights from a pilot project in Swift Current

Session description

The Patient Medical Home (PMH) model has been promoted in Canada for several decades as an effective approach to improving the quality and accessibility of primary care. In Saskatchewan, concrete implementations of this model are emerging through a collaborative initiative between the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) and private practices. One such example is the Associate Family Physicians (AFP) clinic in Swift Current, which has been integrating allied health professionals, including nurses, into its private practice since 2022.

Ongoing research is evaluating the implementation of this pilot project, with a particular focus on the integration of nurses. The goal is to identify which tasks have been delegated to nurses, the outcomes for physicians, patients, and the nurses themselves, and key blocking and facilitating factors for further integration of health professionals.

In this webinar, you will:

• Gain practical insights into the integration of nurses within a private practice as part of the Patient Medical Home model.
• Be inspired to explore how the Patient Medical Home approach can enhance collaborative, interdisciplinary care in your own practice or healthcare setting.

Speakers

Dr. Coralie Darcis is a sociologist from Belgium whose research focuses on health systems, organizations, and public policy. She earned her PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Liège, where she examined mental health policies aimed at improving coordination and integration among services. In September 2023, she relocated to Canada and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. Mainly relying on qualitative methods, her current work focuses more specifically on primary care and models of care delivery.

Dr. Emmett Harrison is a family medicine and emergency physician in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. He completed his medical undergraduate, family medicine residency, and emergency medicine fellowship at the University of Saskatchewan. He is nearly 3 years into practice at the Associate Family Physicians Clinic in Swift Current, where he has the position of “Team-Based Care & Quality Improvement Physician Lead” for Saskatchewan’s Patient’s Medical Home Pilot site. Emmett gained a passion for Quality Improvement after completing the QI in Clinics Pilot in November 2022 and is pursuing a master’s in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety from the University of Saskatchewan. He and his wife, Amanda, are excited for their first child to be born in August.