About Prima Health
Prima Health provides health and wellness services within the Kootenay Boundary Region. Specifically:
- Operating clinics in the KB area that deliver innovative services and service modalities, to address gaps in care;
- Providing management services and supports to family physicians and related health professionals who operate or work in health clinics, to allow clinicians to focus on patient care, not administration;
- Researching, designing & implementing opportunities for innovative and collaborative approaches to primary healthcare with other stakeholders;
- Participating in the planning of improvements, research, and evaluation in relation to primary care, community and population-based health.
The Prima Health Vision
Improve Care • Optimize Efficency • Reduce Costs
As chair of the Prima Board and a long-time resident of the Kootenay Boundary region, Prima is a vision I strongly believe in and am excited to be part of. It is a collaborative vision. It’s a regional vision. Overall, I think implementing the Prima Vision will improve access to primary care, it will make our system more efficient, it will save tax payer dollars, and most importantly, I think it has huge potential for improving quality of care for patients.
Prima Health Initiatives
KB Screen is a virtual service offering age-related routine screening for residents of Kootenay Boundary who don’t currently have a primary care provider. We offer screening for breast, cervical, colon, lung and prostate cancer.
KB Access is a medical clinic that offers episodic primary care, as needed & by appointment only, to patients in the Kootenay Boundary region who don’t currently have a family doctor or nurse practitioner.
The Boundary Health Care Cooperative Team Based Care Initiative
Prima helps the Boundary Health Care Cooperative by providing HR, financial and operational management for their Team Based Care initiative, embedding nurses and social work into four Boundary Clinics.
Community Health Hubs in Nelson and Revelstoke
Prima secures, manages and administratively staffs medical clinic space for a variety of providers and services in Nelson and Revelstoke, bringing together primary care services in Hubs of Care that meet patient needs.
Prima Health Management Services
Prima Health provides Clinic Management and Operational Services to independent private physician clinics wishing to receive more support in managing the business side of running their primary care clinic.
Prima Health:
- relieves physicians of the administrative and operational burdens of running a practice;
- implements systems and structures to improve efficiency;
- supports team-based care; and
- facilitates engagement with community to build stronger connection between the clinic and local primary care needs.
Community Health Centres
Not-for-profit and Community led clinic models deliver a growing portion of Primary Care in KB. Prima supports leaders in a range of communities to explore, design and implement Community Health Centres and Community-Led Clinics, where GPs and NPs work side by side with teams of Nursing and Allied providers.
Prima Health is a not-for-profit cooperative led by citizen patients from across Kootenay Boundary.
Questions? Contact info@primahealth.ca