Health for All

Definitions

Your Primary Care Provider (PCP) is the main person to whom you go for concerns and questions about your overall health. This person can be a Family Doctor, Nurse Practitioner, or Resident.

A Resident is a doctor who has finished medical school and is now completing two years of training to become a Family Doctor. A Resident can also be a primary care provider. For more information about our Residents, please click here.

Registered Nurse (RN) appointments can be booked for immunizations, medicine injections (e.g., allergy shots), ear flushing, wart treatment, and suture or staple removal. For nurses to complete these tasks, they need an order from your primary care provider (PCP), so please speak to your PCP before booking a Nursing appointment.

A Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a Registered Nurse with extra training who can provide health care in almost the same way as a Family Doctor. A Nurse Practitioner can be your primary care provider.

The Family Health Team (FHT) is the largest team at Health for All. It includes all of Health for All’s Family Doctors and Residents, as well as a Physician Assistant, Nurses and other health professionals. Most patients seen at Health for All have a primary care provider working within the Family Health Team.

The Community Care Team (CCT) is a team of health professionals that helps patients whose primary care providers do not work at Health for All (e.g., a Family Doctor who works in an office alone may send his/her patient to see the Pharmacist, Registered Dietitian or Social Worker at the Community Care Team). The Community Care Team can also see patients who do not have a primary care provider or who do not have OHIP.

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