The Hub Transforms the Delivery of Primary Care in West Regional Ottawa - One Address for Local Family Physicians and Collaborating Health Care Providers
The Carleton Place Regional Health Hub will provide the region’s communities with a comprehensive health services destination to help solve the high unfulfilled demand for primary care in the region. The purpose-built facility will increase efficiency, continuity, and coordination of primary care services. For patients old and new, it means better and easier access to primary care.
The Right Care
IN THE RIGHT PLACE
The Hub project applies the core principles of Ontario’s “Your Health Plan”- delivering the right care in the right place through convenient and connected primary care services. Anchored by a a full-floor (14,500 square feet) family clinic bringing together all 17 (and growing) local physicians and adding on-site administrators and nurse practitioners to provide efficiencies that will allow for substantial increases in patient attachments and visits, while reducing emergency department visits.
The Right Care
ACCESSIBLE & CONNECTED
Effective patient-centered care occurs when doctors can easily access and collaborate with interprofessional health providers like pharmacy, diagnostic, specialists, therapists, and other primary care services. The Hub concept increases this efficiency by having allied health services locate in the same facility, helping create ease of contact, as well as continuity and comprehensiveness of patient care.
The Right Care
EASE OF ACCESS & WIDE REGIONAL REACH
In regional and suburban settings, patient travel times to visit primary care providers can be lengthy, and that’s compounded if multiple services are needed; the Hub’s address is central to a very wide region, and mostly accessible by highway. And then, by including multiple primary health care providers in the one facility, patients can receive convenient and connected care at a single site.
“The Hub will greatly enhance interprofessional collaboration. There’s nothing better than being able to walk down a hallway to ask something in person. I see this in the hospital when talking with specialists. You can get more in one minute of doing that than in a three-page consult sometimes.”
Dr. James Fullerton
Physician Lead, Hub Medical Clinic
Why Carleton Place is such an Important Health Care Destination
ACCESS, REACH, DEMOGRAPHICS
Canadians in outer regions typically travel over 30km to receive medical care*. (*Longwoods)
The Town of Carleton Place is the epicenter of West Regional Ottawa, and at the crossroads of the region’s highways. This strategic location ensures ease of reach and ease of access to and from nearby communities such as Smith Falls, Brockville, Mississippi Mills, Arnprior, Perth, and to the furthest outposts of the region. Additionally, its proximity and ease of reach to the western Ottawa suburbs provides a vastly expanded patient market; use of local health care services by the western Ottawa suburb population is already prevalent.
- Carleton Place is on Highway 7, the main thoroughfare through West Regional Ottawa.
- It’s the first town outside of the Ottawa Census Metropolitan Area, going west.
- It has multi-directional reach being at the junction of Highways 7, 29 & 15.
- Commutes to the region’s surrounding towns are under 30 minutes.
- Population reach within a 40 Km radius of the Hub is nearly 600,000.
- Driving commutes within that radius remain under 30 minutes.
There is steadfast demand for health care in the region.
- The region’s annual growth rate averages 1.7%, well exceeding the Canadian norm.
- Carleton Place is Canada’s fastest growing census area four years straight.
- A significant portion of that growth is migration of young families.
- Regional average household income is 29.1% higher than Ottawa or 41.5% higher than Ontario.
- Household healthcare spending is 23.6% higher than Ottawa or 37.6% higher than Ontario.
- Household spending on dental and periodontal is 27.2% higher than Ottawa or 23.2% higher than Ontario.
National retailers’ presence confirms the regional destination status.
Major retailers site locate through thorough data driven processes that include geospatial intelligence, mobility data and predictive demographic analyses. The important retail presence in Carleton Place serves to confirm its regional destination status. The continually growing retailer list includes most national and regional players typical to modern regional retail hubs.
