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Practice Facilitation

Practice Facilitators play an essential role in supporting clinic teams in their Patient's Medical Home transformation journeys.

Practice Facilitation Resources

Practice Facilitators are specially trained individuals who work with community care practices to enable meaningful changes designed to improve patients' outcomes and clinic processes.

They help physicians and quality improvement teams develop the skills they need to implement and adapt evidence-based practices to the specific circumstance of their practice environment.

They are a key resource in the transformation efforts toward the Patient's Medical Home and Health Neighbourhood.

Practice Facilitation Network

Alberta Practice Facilitators are partnered with Accelerating Change Transformation Team (ACTT) to deliver a provincial Practice Facilitation Network. It is a virtual venue for those doing practice facilitation work to connect, share valuable insights, collaborate on initiatives, and rapidly disseminate promising ideas.

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Practice Facilitation Training

Practice Facilitators play an essential role in supporting clinic teams in their Patient's Medical Home transformation journeys. This training introduces the core competencies Practice Facilitators need to support clinic teams.

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Practice Facilitation Resources

Resources to help Practice Facilitators and community care practices enable meaningful changes designed to improve patients' outcomes and clinic processes.

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Practice Facilitators are key change agents in the Alberta Primary Care and Health Neighbourhood transformation journey. Where many individuals working in the primary care system can choose to engage as a change agent, by the very nature of their role Practice Facilitators are change agents, working with community care practices to achieve meaningful improvement (see definition below).

Practice Facilitators are central in the approach to spreading and scaling the Patient’s Medical Home across all Alberta family practice clinics. There is strong evidence that practice facilitation is the lever for Patient’s Medical Home transformation. Specifically, the evidence demonstrates with practice facilitation there is:

  • Improved clinical outcomes.
  • Better teamwork.
  • System return on investment.
  • Three times more likely implementation of evidence-based guidelines/recommendations by physicians.

A local research study from 2018, Scaling Up - A Principled Approach for Primary Care Transformation in Alberta, provided five principles for scaling the Patient’s Medical Home in Alberta. Three of these principles are:

  1. Practice Facilitation is essential.
  2. Address the early majority in terms that make sense to them.
  3. Help teams learn to distribute knowledge work activities and shift their mental models.

With the strong and growing evidence for Practice Facilitation as a lever for transformation, the

AMA commitment to supporting these change agents continues to grow too.