Body: Planning Committee Type: Document Meeting: Committee Date: 2024 Collection: Agenda Attachments Municipality: Frontenac County
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Primary Healthcare in Frontenac County April 2024 – Update
Background 2024 • $20,000 was committed to recruitment of primary healthcare professionals in Frontenac County • January/February, Economic Development staff began a process of information gathering, both internally and externally.
Insights - General • Meetings • Existing structures, programs and understand areas of focus. • Recruitment staff o Full time, part time, contracts
• Different signing incentives
o Majority $100,000 for five years. o Short term housing. o Varying levels of support.
• Recruiting fairs • Repatriation event - fall of 2023
Insights – Clinic Models • Many clinics are a business o Physicians responsible for all aspects. o Human resources, procurement, and property maintenance. o Business is not part of medical school
• Clinic models o Physicians an employee. o Property maintenance, human resources and procurement not the physician’s responsibility.
Information Gathering • Medical students learn in a teambased environment o Want to practice in a similar environment.
• New physicians 1,000 rostered patients. o Retiring rosters 2,000 - 3,000. o Require 2-3 new physicians
• Marketing campaigns o Issues management o Do not widely promote incentives.
Sharbot Lake Family Health Team • • •
2 FT Physicians, recruiting a Nurse Practitioner Additional healthcare professionals Part of Tay River Family Health Organization in Perth.
Verona Medical Clinic • • •
1 FT Physician, 1 PT locum, 1 Nurse Practitioner Additional healthcare professionals Part of the Rural Kingston Family Health Organization.
Sydenham Medical Clinic • • •
3 FT Physicians and 1 Nurse Practitioner, Additional healthcare professionals Part of the Rural Kingston Family Health Organization.
Wolfe Island Community Medical Clinic • • • •
August 2023, the clinic called Frontenac Doctors discontinued walk-in and patient care services on Wolfe Island. Some services offered through the clinic including Lifelabs, assistive devices loan program and the VON Foot Care program. Looking to attract a Nurse Practitioner to the clinic as a pilot project. The clinic wishes to be designated isolated, rural through the Ministry of Health.
Administrative Burden • Paperwork • Human Resources
• Hiring, vacation, payroll, recruitment, retention
• Property maintenance • snow, lawn, cleaning
• Purchasing/Ordering/Inventory • Doctors have indicated they are burning out. • More attractive for recruitment and retention
Operational Review • Consultant • Meet with each of the clinics • Identify issues, efficiencies and opportunities • Short, medium and long-term goals • Report back to Physicians • Present next steps to Planning and Economic Development Committee
Working Group • Rural Kingston Family Health Organization - lead • Support Primary Healthcare in our community • Frontenac County, staff participate
Future Considerations • Targeted marketing, sales kit • Spousal support program
Communications Support • Career link on website • Update webpage content • Add video
Healthcare in our community
