The goal of the Primary Care Team of the SHIH is to work with existing primary care providers and Ontario Health to ensure that older adults get team based primary care in their community. 

Primary Care for Older Adults: An Urgent Need

SHIH Featured in Ottawa Citizen Article

On February 24, the Ottawa Citizen’s award winning health journalist, Elizabeth Payne, wrote a compelling article outlining the need for seniors primary care as articulated by the SHIH. Read more here

SHIH Nurse Practitioner Proposal

In 2023, the SHIH together with the Centretown Community Health Centre and Perley Health submitted an Expression of Interest to Ontario Health East to fund a nurse practitioner-led clinic. Endorsed by the Ottawa Health Team, the clinic would hire two Nurse Practitioners (NP) and an RN to begin, but is scalable to six Nurse Practitioners. This clinic would provide primary care to some of the more than 10,000 seniors in Ottawa who do not have a regular primary care provider. That number is growing despite increases in provincial spending!

Read this February 2025 document that further describes the above proposal.

In October 2023 this Evaluation Framework, co-authored by Ms. Hoda Mankal NP-PHC, Dr. Joanna Binch NP-PHC, and Dr. Jennifer Rayner, an Epidemiologist, was written to complement our 2023 Funding submission.

In January 2024, we presented our case to the Ontario Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs for the 2024 Pre-Budget Consultation: Oral Presentation and Video.