News and Updates
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Annual Report
The Ottawa West Four Rivers Ontario Health Team 2025-2026 Annual Report outlines the work we’re doing in collaboration with our partners, the impact we’re having from leadership perspectives, and projects we’re supporting to enhance care. It highlights how our OHT is positively impacting our partners and people throughout the region by fostering collaboration and transformative system initiatives.
Ontario Connecting 6,400 People to Primary Care in North Grenville
As part of its Primary Care Action Plan to connect everyone in Ontario to a publicly funded family doctor or primary care team by 2029, the Ontario government is investing $2,605,100 this year to connect up to 6,400 people to primary care in North Grenville and surrounding communities. Steve Clark, MPP for Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, made the announcement on April 28 with John Jordan, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health, and the partners involved in the Kemptville Nurse Practitioner Led Clinic (NPLC) and Primary Care Hub.
Successful SHIIP Pilot Improves Care Coordination
Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) is highlighting the success of a recent pilot of a digital health solution that enables secure, real-time access to patient information across healthcare providers. The pilot was initiated and funded by the Ottawa West Four Rivers (OWFR) Ontario Health Team (OHT), supporting two community partners - JW MacIntosh Community Support Services and Seniors’ Community Services - to evaluate its impact in real-world care settings.
OWFR OHT submits four strong IPCT proposals
The Ottawa West Four Rivers OHT and PCN is pleased to share that we were able to submit four strong IPCT proposals to expand equitable access to coordinated and community-based primary care services. These proposals represented different models of care, addressed communities across our OHT catchment, and targeted different priority populations. The interdisciplinary evaluation panel recognized the strengths in each of these submissions. Ontario Health East supported our request for two additional proposals, bringing our total to four, appreciating the neighbourhood level approach that we had established and recognizing the existing high number of people who are currently seeking primary care within our OHT. We also highlighted the fact that our OHT has a lower proportion of patients attached to existing IPCTs within the East region. We require the expansion of existing and the creation of net new primary care teams to achieve the vision of full attachment. We are incredibly grateful for the time and commitment of our partners to develop and submit these proposals, as well as their openness to new partnerships and collaboration during the proposal development stage and beyond. We look forward to sharing more information as it becomes available from the province, who indicated that prospective IPCTs will be notified of funding decisions in early Spring 2026.
Memo: Further Updates on Digital Initiatives
This memo builds on previous communications and provides further updates on the implementation of the Patients Before Paperwork initiative, including: Reminder: eReferral Ontario now available for onboarding Central Intake technology vendor selection Central Intake launch for DI (MRI/CT) Mental Health and Addictions hub selection Health Report Manager (HRM) priority standards
Montfort to provide primary care in French at the Maison de la francophonie d’Ottawa
The Francophone community in Ottawa’s west end will now be able to receive primary care in their own language at the Maison de la francophonie d’Ottawa. Montfort, Ontario’s Francophone academic hospital, will soon open a new clinic there, the Équipe de santé familiale communautaire Montfort de l’Ouest d’Ottawa / Montfort Ottawa West Community Family Health Team, which aims to gradually take on 6,725 patients by December 31, 2027. The clinic will initially prioritize care for Francophones who do not currently have a primary care provider, who are on the Health Care Connect waitlist, and who live in neighbourhoods with postal codes beginning with K2 or K1R, K1S, K1T, K1V, K1Y and K1Z. Francophone communities in these neighbourhoods are growing rapidly, as evidenced by the approximately 30 French-language schools in the area. This new service is part of the latest announcement by the Ontario Ministry of Health to create and expand primary care teams, as part of Ontario’s Primary Care Action Plan. It is made possible by a new annual provincial investment of $2.4 million.
Statement on the province's decision to withdraw funding for CTS sites
The Équipe Santé Ontario Archipel Ontario Health Team, Ottawa Ontario Health Team – Équipe Santé Ontario d'Ottawa and Ottawa West Four Rivers Ontario Health Team are deeply concerned about the impact of the closure of Consumption and Treatment Services (CTS) across Ontario, including two sites in Ottawa. Please read our full statement here.