Alliance for Healthier Communities

At the June 2020 Alliance Annual General Meeting, Alliance members unanimously passed a resolution to advance sociodemographic data collection in our sector, with a goal of all member organizations having a 75% data completion rate by 2024. Collecting this data is essential to our mission of advancing health equity, because it provides evidence we need to advocate for our clients in priority populations and tailor service delivery to improve care. It also helps us to obtain funding and support for programs that assist our most vulnerable clients.  

Optimizing panel size is an important step primary healthcare organizations can take towards making care more accessible for their clients and communities and advancing population health.

On Tuesday, May 17, two leaders from the West End Quality Improvement (WEQI) collaborative shared their experiences and learnings with applying quality improvement (QI) methodology to the complex challenge of optimizing their panel sizes. 

#What is primary health care? How is it different from primary care?

Community Health Centres and other members of the Alliance for Healthier Communities are committeed to supporting the health and wellbeing of the people in Ontario who face the most significant barriers, including difficulty accessing health and social care, matierial deprivation, discrimination, and trauma. The people who experience these barriers are our moral owner and we are accountable to them in our work. Each Alliance member organization chooses local priority populations according to their communities demographics and assets. 

#What do we mean when we say Primary Health Care is the Foundation of our Health System? 

The Model of Health and Wellbeing (MHWB) is the common conceptual framework that guides our organizations and lays out our sector's foundational commitments.

This document is a list of references for Alliance the fact sheet, "The Model of Health and Wellbeing Works! Here's how we know."  They are also listed below. Headings in the references document and on this page correspond to the headings in the handout.

#The CHC Practice Profile for 2020-2021 was published in March 2022.

#The CHC Practice Profile for 2020-2021 was published in March 2022.

#Webinar: Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Improving indoor air quality can help reduce transmission of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to create a healthier, safer environment for workers, residents, clients and visitors through: