• St. Michael’s Hospital, Department of Family & Community Medicine-Family Health Team

  The St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team (SMHAFHT) is a large, primary care teaching clinic, affiliated with the University of Toronto, and nestled within the downtown core of Toronto. The Family Health Team provides services to the inner-city community of Toronto through 6 clinical sites located conveniently in these neighbourhoods. We serve the poorest communities in Toronto - people who are marginalized, underhoused and with significant health comorbidities who are significantly impacted by many social determinants of health that ...

• USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project

  The USAID ASSIST Project is a five-year cooperative agreement of the Office of Health Systems of the USAID Global Health Bureau designed to achieve measurable improvements in health care and social services in USAID-assisted countries. The project supports the application of modern improvement methods by health care and social service providers at facility and community levels, by managers in both government and non-governmental organizations, and by U.S. Government-supported implementing partners. USAID ASSIST achieves sustainable results by building the capacity of ...

• The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred Care - GPCC

  The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred Care - GPCC is an interdisciplinary research centre, established in January 2010, with the support of the Swedish government's strategic investment in health and care research. The centre performs interventional and explorative studies on person-centred care in a wide variety of health care settings. This research has established that person-centred care is capable of enhancing the efficiency of the care process. Apart from considerable monetary savings resulting from amongst other things shorter hospital stays, ...