About Us

Connecting care across communities

Équipe santé Ontario Sudbury Espanola Manitoulin Elliot Lake Ontario Health Team (OHT) is a network of more than 50 health and social service providers working together to organize and deliver services. We focus on all people living across Greater Sudbury and Sudbury East, Espanola, Manitoulin Island, Elliot Lake, and the surrounding areas.

The OHT’s partners work together to plan and improve the way programs and services are organized and delivered, and they are committed to collaborating on priority setting and decision-making.

Following guidance and direction from the Ministry of Health and Ontario Health, our work focuses on these priority areas:

Integrated care, population health management, and health equity
System navigation
Collaborative leadership and decision-making
Primary care engagement and leadership
Digital health and data
And, eventually, integrated home care delivery

Our efforts for these priority areas are guided by the “Quintuple Aim,” which works towards these five overarching goals:

Enhancing patient and family experience

Improving population health outcomes

Improving value

Enhancing frontline and provider experience

Advancing health equity

Additionally, the OHT is committed to learning from and working with the communities we serve. To do this, the OHT works with local partners, including health, social, and
municipal organizations. We also work with “Co-Design Partners,” which is a term the OHT uses to include:

Persons with Lived Experience
Indigenous Peoples
Francophones
Physicians, nurse practitioners, and clinicians

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About Ontario Health Teams

Ontario Health Teams (OHT) were introduced by the Ontario government in 2019 to organize and deliver services in local communities. They provide people with better connected and more convenient care.

Under Ontario Health Teams, the health care providers who care for you (including hospitals, doctors and home and community care providers) work together as one coordinated team – no matter where they provide care.

Visit the Ontario Ministry of Health’s webpage to learn more about OHTs.

Ontario.ca to learn more

Our Partners

The following organizations make up the OHT’s Core Partners, which are involved in the team’s planning, priority-setting, and decision-making.