Scarborough Ontario Health Team Welcomes Primary Care Network Clinical Leads
Scarborough, ON — The Scarborough Ontario Health Team is pleased to announce that after a month-long recruitment process, Dr. Donna Vlahos and Dr. Rosemarie Lall have been successfully identified as the Clinical Leads of our Primary Care Network (PCN).
The vision for Primary Care Network (PCN) is to connect, integrate, and support primary care providers within Ontario Health Teams to improve the delivery and coordination of care for patients. The objectives for PCN are to organize the local primary care sector in Ontario Health Team planning and provide a voice in OHT decision-making. The PCN will also serve as a vehicle to support OHTs in the implementation of local and provincial priorities.
Drs. Lall and Vlahos will provide clinical leadership to SOHT through its Primary Care Network. The role focuses on improving clinical governance, supporting service transformation, and ensuring high-quality, client-centered care aligned with SOHT. These leadership positions are designed to reflect the voices of primary care providers and community members, ensuring a collaborative and person-centered approach to care.
We look forward to their clinical leadership in advancing SOHT and Ontario Health’s priorities that focus on primary care transformation, integrated services, and inclusive governance.
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“We are honoured to serve as PCN Clinical Leads at such a pivotal time for Scarborough. This role is beyond strengthening systems, it is about inspiring change, bringing partners together, and ensuring that every individual has access to primary care that is centered in excellence, compassion, responsiveness and above all, culturally sensitive and equitable. We are committed to leading with purpose and to building a foundation of trust that will carry our communities forward.”
— Dr. Donna Vlahos and Dr. Rosemarie Lall, PCN Clinical Leads
“The launch of the PCN represents an important step forward in strengthening primary care in Scarborough. With Dr. Lall and Dr. Vlahos stepping in as the PCN Clinical Leads, we will be better positioned to collaborate across the system and advance equitable, team-based care.”
— Dr. Larry Erlick, Collaboration Council Chair
“The PCN Clinical Leads bring the vision and expertise needed to align efforts across providers and ensure that our work remains responsive to community needs. Their leadership will help drive innovation and build stronger connections in primary care delivery.”
— Jeanie Argiropoulos, Interprofessional Primary Care Sector Table Co-Chair
“The PCN is grounded in the voices of patients, families, and caregivers. We are confident that Dr. Lall and Dr. Vlahos will ensure those voices remain central as we design care that is accessible, inclusive, and meaningful.”
— Dr. Abdul Fattah, Jan Haskings, and Lori Berger-Hegyi, CFAC Co-Chairs
“The PCN builds on the strength of primary care leadership in Scarborough and offers a unique opportunity to unify the voices of our primary care leaders. We are fortunate to have the leadership of Drs. Lall and Vlahos, whose experience in engaging primary care physicians will be instrumental in the success of our PCN. I look forward to working with them to build a sustainable and impactful PCN for our OHT.”
—Surkhab Peerzada, Director of Scarborough Ontario Health Team
About Ontario Health Teams
Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) organize and deliver services in local communities. They provide people with better connected and more convenient care. The teams bring together health care providers from across health and community sectors to work as one collaborative team to better coordinate care and share resources.
Ontario Health Teams are made up of providers and organizations including:
- primary care
- hospitals
- home and community care
- mental health and addictions services
- long-term care
About Scarborough Ontario Health Team
Scarborough Ontario Health Team (SOHT) has one of the largest populations of all OHTs in the province and is based in one of Canada’s most vibrant and diverse communities. Approved as a OHT in 2020, SOHT is a network of over forty partner organizations with a rich history of collaboration providing health and community services across the continuum of care. Our OHT’s attributed populations of almost 900,000 goes beyond the residents of Scarborough to include residents of neighbouring communities that have made Scarborough their health care destination of choice.
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About Primary Care Network
PCNs connect, integrate, and support primary care providers to improve how care is delivered and coordinated for patients.
The PCN will have the following five functions:
- The PCN connects primary care within the OHT.
- The PCN services as a vehicle for providing the local primary care sector’s voice in OHT decision-making.
- The PCN supports OHT clinical change management and population health management approaches.
- The PCN facilitated access to clinical and digital supports and improvement for primary care.
- The PCN supports local primary care Health Human Resource planning within the OHT.
