To provide access to urgent and after-hours assessment and care for all residents, with a focus on unattached patients.

• Reduce pressure on hospital emergency department for low acuity conditions (CTAS 4 and 5 visits).

• Provide urgent and episodic care to residents without a local primary care provider.

• Provide an integrated geriatric assessment and women’s health clinic.

To expand access to specialists by creating new programs for visiting specialists through a collaboration with the University Health Network/University of Toronto and others.

• Provide turnkey services to visiting specialists to see patients, with follow-up provided by a nurse practitioner.

• Increase access and reduce wait times for needed specialist services.

• Provide rural learning opportunities for medical residents.

To provide a full suite of diagnostic services to the residents of Gravenhurst and surrounding area.

• Reduce travel for area residents (Gravenhurst and Muskoka Lakes) for diagnostic services.

• Reduce wait times for diagnostic services.

• Provide convenient access to long-term care (LTC) residents and inmates of the local penitentiary.

To provide a common front office and shared office space with complementary health and social service providers.

• Provide affordable, purpose built, space for co-location of  local health and social service providers.

• Increase access to needed community mental health services through partnership with Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) and Family Connexions.

• Facilitate collaborative initiatives by use of common meeting space and services.

• Expand access to laboratory specimen collection to all residents, in partnership with Dynacare.

• Expand services in the existing home care clinic for wounds, IV antibiotics etc.

• Provide common meeting space for interprofessional team meetings.

• Provide local access and increased availability of community paramedics.

• Expand access to palliative care advice through partnership with Hospice Muskoka.