Health Matters - Apple Magazine Health Matters Fall 2016 | Page 2

Your Health Matters Primary Care Networks (PCNs) were established in the Calgary area about 10 years ago to give people access to various health services, programs and health teams through their family doctors. Health Matters is published by the PCNs to give you more information about these services. Today, PCNs work with teams of other health professionals, as well as offer programs such as Prescription to Get Active and Find-a-Doctor. Health Matters, Fall 2016 Issue publication team: Jennifer Allford, Keith Bradford, Terry Bullick, Bart Goemans, Cori Leyte, Dr. Christine Luelo, Jacquie Maurice, Amy Sawchenko, Chrissie Worth Contributors: Anne Georg, Jacqueline Louie, Jimi Scherer Photos by: Trudie Lee Photography, Neil Zeller, ingimage.com We appreciate your feedback and article suggestions. Contact our editorial team at [email protected]. To find your PCN, visit mypcn.ca › Calgary West Central Primary Care Network › Calgary Foothills Primary Care Network › Highland Primary Care Network › Mosaic Primary Care Network › Calgary Rural Primary Care Network › South Calgary Primary Care Network TWO HEALTH MATTERS FALL 2016 Pioneering a new kind of healthcare Looking back to the beginning BY ANNE GEORG Eleven years ago, Marny Conlon arrived in Calgary to start as executive director of the new South Calgary Primary Care Network and headed straight to her office—the Tim Hortons on McKnight Boulevard. The coffee shop was the PCN’s office for the next 18 months and where Conlon and her colleagues helped lay the groundwork for a new form of healthcare for Albertans. Alberta’s Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are designed to be patient-centred medical homes, places where family doctors offer patients seamless care integrated with other health services. PCNs base their care on people’s needs in their communities and throughout every stage of their lives. From humble beginnings to proven success “We had humble beginnings,” Conlon says. “The networks began with a federal grant, and