About Us
In continued integration of health care, Sioux Lookout Regional Physician Services Inc. (SLRPSI) was established in early 2010 to provide innovative, patient-focused physician services in the Sioux Lookout Zone. SLRPSI is a corporation founded to plan, govern and manage physician services in the Sioux Lookout area. An agreement was signed with the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care that will provide a new funding structure for physicians in the Sioux Lookout area in October 2010.
Under SLRPSI, physicians in the Sioux Lookout area will have the flexibility to work in a variety of settings, whether they want to work in Sioux Lookout or work directly in the First Nations communities, or a combination of both.
There are currently three physician groups as well as individual physicians that provide services for the region through contractual arrangements. Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority provides administration and management supports to SLRPSI.
SLRPSI is committed to ensuring students, residents and physicians have a meaningful, learning, work experience, and offer a supportive, collaborative work environment. This environment plays a key role in the satisfaction levels of physicians. SLRPSI is also inviting new physician groups to become a part of this exciting period of enhanced physician services.
The Committee
Who we are:
Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority (SLFNHA), Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre, Sioux Lookout Zone Northern Physicians, First Nations & Family Physicians Health Services and the Hugh Allen Clinic Family Health Group have been working separately over the years to recruit and retain physician services for the Sioux Lookout area. The Sioux Lookout Regional Physician Services Recruitment and Retention Committee was created in 2008 after these organizations saw the need to work together towards a common goal.
Our goals:
The committee is a collaborative effort between these organizations/physicians groups, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, as well as the Municipality of Sioux Lookout, Sioux Lookout Chamber of Commerce and surrounding First Nations communities to attract physicians to the area through a comprehensive, integrated recruitment and retention strategy.
Just a few of our key objectives are:
To develop, implement, monitor and evaluate effective recruitment and retention initiatives
To monitor results and satisfaction level of physicians on a regular basis as part of the recruitment and retention initiatives
To ensure communities' involvement in the process
To work with all physician groups within the Sioux Lookout area
To encourage and welcome learners into the communities