What health care services do Primary Care Networks provide?
Primary Care Networks are at differing stages of development and implementation. Primary Care Networks may provide the following services:
- Basic health care (ambulatory care)
- Care for healthy children
- Family planning and pregnancy counseling
- Pregnancy care and delivering babies
- Care of complex health problems and follow up
- Minor surgery
- Screening and chronic disease prevention
- Mental health care
- Information management (ensuring patient privacy)
- Palliative care (care for the terminally ill)
- In-hospital or long-term facility primary care
- Elder care (geriatric)
- Care of chronic illness
- Minor emergency care
- Rehabilitative care
- Community health and promotion (population health)
As well, Networks coordinate with other areas of health care, such as lab and X-ray, home care, long-term care and public health. The Networks also work to manage 24-hour patient access to appropriate primary care services.
