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.

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