About the Barrie and Area OHT
Working together for a healthier community
The Barrie and Area Ontario Health Team (OHT) has a committed focus on the health and social care needs of residents in our communities.
Together with our partners, we are working towards a care system that puts our patients, clients, family members and caregivers at the forefront of everything we do.
We’re creating a system that is people-focused, accessible, coordinated and inclusive for all members of our communities.
Our communities
The Barrie and Area OHT includes 19 community health care partners serving a diverse population
throughout:
- Barrie
- Innisfil
- Springwater
- Oro-Medonte
- Essa
Our priorities
Transform Patient Care
- Improve patient satisfaction for older adults
- Improve access to palliative care services
- Promote equity among Indigenous, Francophone, marginalized and racialized populations
- Increase awareness of local health services through a shared website
Engage Patient Partners and Community
- Patient Family Caregiver Advisory Council (PFAC) Members engaged in co-design
- Patient, Family, Caregiver (PFC) lived experience shapes the health care services
Enhance Leadership, Accountability and Governance
- Build a culture of trust and engage in collective decision-making
- Achieve shared goals and accountabilities across OHT members
Enable Digital Health Integration and Information Sharing
- Advancement of digital health/virtual care
- Advancement of information-sharing across OHT members
Advance Performance Measurement, Quality Improvement and Continuous Learning
- Progress made to reduce variation and implement clinical standards/best evidence
Frequently Asked Questions
Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) provide a new way of organizing and delivering care that is more connected to patients in their local communities. Under OHTs, health care providers (including hospitals, doctors, and home and community care providers) work as one coordinated team – no matter where they provide care.
Currently, there are 57 Ontario Health Teams across the province.
Patients are assigned to an Ontario Health Team based on how and where they use health care services rather than where they live. This means, we work with an attributed population and not a geographical area on a map.
The Barrie and Area OHT’s attributed population is approximately 200,000 people.
Providers and organizations eligible to become an Ontario Health Team include, but are not limited to, those that provide:
- primary care (including inter-professional primary care and physicians)
- secondary care (e.g., in-patient and ambulatory medical and surgical services (includes specialist services)
- home care
- community support services
- mental health and addictions services
- health promotion and disease prevention services
- rehabilitation and complex care
- palliative care (e.g., hospice)
- residential care and short-term transitional care (e.g., in supportive housing, long-term care homes, retirement homes)
- long-term care home placement
- emergency health services
- laboratory and diagnostic services
- midwifery services, and
- other social and community services and other services, as needed by the population.
Health811
Connecting you to non-urgent health advice and information from a registered health care worker.
Call 811 or visit Health811.
211 Ontario
Connecting you to non-emergency community programs and social services.
Call 211 or visit 211 Ontario.
