Recruitment & Retention
This program in Canada trains nurses in their own communities to improve retention.
What is the Grow Your Own Nurse Program?
This organization governs Indigenous healthcare services in British Columbia.
What is the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA)?
This network improves access to specialists in rural areas in Ontario.
What is the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN)?
This Ontario hospital has built a rural research institute to innovate healthcare delivery.
What is Brightshores Health System?
This foundation promotes land-based healing programs for Indigenous communities.
What is the Thunderbird Partnership Foundation?
This toolkit was developed to address nursing retention in rural and remote areas.
What is the Nursing Retention Toolkit?
This Indigenous-led health center in Ottawa integrates traditional healing with Western medicine.
What is the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health?
This province developed a Community Paramedicine Program to reduce ER visits.
What is Alberta?
This small Ontario hospital is known for maintaining services through strong partnerships.
What is Kemptville District Hospital?
This province piloted the 1:60,000 collaborative care model for psychiatric and addiction services.
What is Saskatchewan?
This province has a Rural Physician Mentorship Program to retain doctors in remote areas.
What is Manitoba?
The Indigenous Doula Program in Quebec provides this type of care.
What is Maternal Care?
This initiative in Nova Scotia improves emergency response through virtual triage.
What is the Medavie's Medical Communication Centre?
This federal union lobbies for policy changes to improve rural healthcare conditions.
What is the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU)?
This initiative in Newfoundland and Labrador focuses on community-driven suicide prevention.
What is Roots of Hope?
This federal organization provides incentives for healthcare workers to work in remote Indigenous communities.
What is Indigenous Services Canada?
This First Nation community partnered with UCalgary to recruit nurses locally.
Who are the Siksika First Nation?
This company provides satellite internet to improve connectivity in rural Canada.
What is Starlink?
This province is piloting long-term care 'small care homes' to improve elder care.
What is Alberta?
This rural region in Ontario has implemented nurse-pharmacist partnerships for opioid addiction.
What is Sioux Lookout?
This Canadian territory offers travel stipends as part of their nurse retention strategy.
What is Nunavut?
This Australian Indigenous healthcare model identified the need for a centralized service centre.
What is the Goondir Health Service?
This virtual tool was highlighted in the conference for reducing unnecessary ER visits.
What is GoodSAM?
This rural Ontario town is part of the Brightshores Research Institute’s transformation efforts.
What is Grey Bruce or Grey County?
This eastern Canadian province launched the Roots of Hope program to prevent suicide in rural communities.
What is Newfoundland and Labrador?