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