Team Optimization Table

The Team Optimization Table comprised of 20 projects focused on optimizing primary care team functioning. Representatives from six provinces met quarterly to share and learn key concepts that support their teamwork, in serving various populations with unique health care needs.

The Alex Family Health Centre
Calgary, Alberta

Chickadee Maternity Collaborative
Dawson Creek, B.C.

Clinique Indigo
Montreal, Québec

Northern Connections Medical Centre
Winnipeg, Manitoba

St. Michael's Hospital Academic Family Health Team - Toronto, ON

Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-Op
New Westminster, B.C.

Watch inspiring stories below to discover the transformative impact of collaborative primary care.

All Team Optimization Table Projects:

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Chickadee Maternity Collaborative Team Integration Project

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First Steps Early Pregnancy Triage Clinic

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Community Outpatient Services

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Equity in Practice: Integrating Cross Cultural Health Brokers to Implement Culturally Safer Equity-Oriented Primary Care for Immigrants and Refugees in British Columbia

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Pilot Integration of Midwives into a Comprehensive Primary Care Setting

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Primary Healthcare Expansion at The Alex Community Health Centre

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A Culturally Responsive Approach in Chronic Disease Management

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Responding to the Call: Centering Indigenous Knowledge Systems to Strengthen Comprehensive Primary Care

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Healthcare Connections: Connecting Diversity

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On Track: Supporting Interprofessional Team-Based Primary Care and Collaborative Leadership Through Training in a Student-Led Environment 

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Healthcare Connect for Foreign-Trained Healthcare Professionals 

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The TEMPEH Project: Team Care for Routine Emergencies Among People Experiencing Houselessness

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Strengthening Interprofessional Collaboration for Effective Health Promotion and Education Initiatives at Toronto Western Family Health Team 

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Memory Care in Primary Care - An Interagency Memory Care Service within a Community-Based Family Health Team

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Transforming Support for Isolated Older Adults Through Social Prescribing Within Team-Based Primary Care in Toronto, Ontario

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Scaling Up Labour Market Integration of International Trained Medical Graduates (IMGs) and Professionals in Clinical Assistant Roles

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Une Équipe Interprofessionnelle au Service de la Population Orpheline (EISPO)

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COACH COLLABO: A Quality Improvement Intervention to Increase Interprofessional Collaboration in Primary Healthcare Clinics)

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Family Medicine In-Practice Certification Route for Certificates of Added Competence in Enhanced Surgical Skills, Obstetrical Surgical Skills, and Family Practice Anesthesia

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Society of Rural Physicians of Canada’s National Advanced Skills and Training Program for Rural Practice