"It's a temporary clinic, but it bridges that very necessary gap so that patients don't continue to return to the emergency department for their primary care needs."
"Our hope is that we will eventually connect all patients in east Toronto with primary care and scale this to even go beyond our community."
"Our dream is that we are no longer needed."
"What this clinic does is it connects patients that don't have access to family medicine or primary care to a clinic that deals with their primary care needs."
The clinic launched Oct. 27 to serve unattached patients in east Toronto, where tens of thousands are believed to need a family doctor. The clinic provides immediate primary-care follow-up, typically two to six short-term visits, to stabilize patients medically and link them with community-based family physicians. A team of a family doctor, nurses and a navigation counsellor provide coordinated care. Referrals come from the emergency department, mental-health outpatient programs, paediatric clinics and a family and newborn clinic. The clinic aims to reduce emergency-department use and scale until community attachment is achieved.
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