Enhanced access.
Engaged teams.
We are your health home.
“Prior to going to this clinic I did not expect some of the services that … I now have access to. So to me they are going above and beyond how I always defined primary health care, which is you are going in and seeing your doctor. Here they are able to provide more than that.”
-CVFP patient, Health Quality Council of Alberta Case Study Evaluation, 2019
We are CVFP
Crowfoot Village Family Practice (CVFP) partners with patients to deliver team-based, comprehensive health care. Our unique funding model supports a high-standard of integrated and accessible care that can improve patient outcomes and impact health system costs.
Our Care Commitment
Our Health Team is committed to providing primary care services that are:
✓ patient-partnered
✓ comprehensive
✓ integrated
✓ efficient
✓ striving for continuous quality improvement
CVFP’s team-based care approach means our patients have access to interdisciplinary health teams who work alongside CVFP doctors. Our health teams include a Physician Assistant, Registered Nurses and many other health professionals including Pharmacists, a Behavioural Health Consultant, Respiratory Educators and a Health Management Nurse. In addition, CVFP offers access to a Nurse Practitioner who specializes in women’s health.
Executive Director Shauna Thome talks about three key areas that impact patient care at Crowfoot Village Family Practice:
1) Transformative funding model that allows CVFP to design care based on patient needs and evolve care over time
2) Team-based care where providers share the halo and surround patients
3) Patient-partnered focus were providers and patients build a care relationship shoulder-to-shoulder
CVFP is a member of the Calgary Foothills Primary Care Network (CFPCN); one of 40 PCNs operating in communities across Alberta. PCNs are an Alberta-made approach to improve and better coordinate patient access to interdisciplinary, team-based primary health care.
“As part of the Calgary Foothills PCN, our CVFP Health Team is connected with other physicians and additional supports to enhance care including nurses, dieticians and pharmacists,” Dr. Janet Reynolds, CVFP physician plus Medical Director, and Medical Director for the Calgary Foothills PCN.
The Power of Patient Stories
Patient stories offer valuable insights that go beyond statistics and outcomes: they have the power to inspire, humanize, compel action and challenge assumptions.
We are privileged to share the experiences of our CVFP patients, as told in their own words.
Our Funding Model
CVFP has been funded under a unique model for over two decades -- Alberta Health pays us differently than most physicians. Typically, when a Family Physician provides care for a patient, they bill Alberta Health a fee for that visit, and for each time they see that patient. This is called fee for service.
At CVFP when a patient chooses to join our practice, Alberta Health pays us an annual fee to provide care for that patient, no matter how often we see them for a visit.
Our unique model maximizes benefits and value for patients and care providers. In an independent case study by the Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA) 2019, the CVFP model was found to be cost-effective when considering health system costs including emergency visits and in-patient hospital stays.
Crowfoot Village Family Practice provides comprehensive, cost-effective care that creates value for the health system
The clinic has been able to use a team-based practice model that offers more cost-effective care, particularly when downstream health system costs such as emergency use and inpatient hospital stays are considered. In 2016-17, the practice model delivered by CVFP realized health system cost savings of $4.3 million. This trend of health system cost savings has been consistent since 2007-08 with a 10-year accumulated savings of $57.3 million.
Health Quality Council of Alberta, Case Study Evaluation, 2019