Empowering your community, especially newcomers, unattached, vulnerable and marginalized individuals.

National Directory of Primary Care Clinics Accepting New Patients

To help Canadians easily find family doctors accepting new patients, the EMPOWER Health team has been collecting information about which primary care clinics are accepting new patients & displaying this information on the easy-to-use empower.ca & iamsick.ca websites.

Patients can easily view the locations of nearby primary care (Physician-led & Nurse-led) clinics accepting new patients, and easily filter the map based on their individual needs (ie. clinicians who speak a specific language).  The EMPOWER Health platform also shows other useful person-centered information that may be a priority (ie. nearby public transit & accessibility information, general hours of operations, etc).

The EMPOWER Health services directory maintenance team also strives to ensure our listing of family doctors accepting new patients continues to be the most up-to-date & accurate listing in Canada.

To ensure that patients & clinical staff experience less frustration and unnecessary phone calls, the EMPOWER Health platform includes EMR-integrated online appointment booking with advanced configurations for seamless booking of Meet & Greet primary care appointments.

Helping Patients Find Care in their Language

The EMPOWER Health platform is multilingual, and includes language filters to show nearby healthcare options (including family doctors accepting new patients) who speak a specific language.  This small & simple feature strengthens our healthcare system by making healthcare organizations less frightening, while also creating a bond between newcomers & those with language barriers and their circle of care.

Canada has such a diverse healthcare system and EMPOWER Health strives to unlock such potential.