Access to Care
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Do You Know Patients Who Are Struggling to Find a Family Doctor?
You’re not alone. Nearly 6.5 million Canadians lack access to basic healthcare, leading to overcrowded emergency rooms and longer wait times for primary care. While 24% of patients without a family doctor go to the ER for non-urgent issues, only 14% turn to pharmacists. We want this to change.
To address this gap, MedEssist's Access to Care (ATC) program empowers pharmacists to assess, provide medications and supplies, and take a more active role in delivering care for additional minor ailments. By collaborating with prescribers, pharmacists are expanding their clinical impact and transforming pharmacies into trusted, pharmacist-led clinics.
Conditions Currently Treated by MedEssist’s ATC Program:
With this program, pharmacists in Ontario are currently able to assess and provide medications/supplies for:
How Access to Care Helps Grow Your Pharmacy
As a participating pharmacy, you can:
- Elevate your Pharmacy as a Care Hub
- Strengthen and Grow Your Patient Base
- Deliver Safe, Confident, Collaborative Care
- Get Tools, Support, and Ready-to-Use Materials to Succeed
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Learn More About our Newest Feature:
Travel Health!
Be a one-stop travel clinic for your community this summer! Offer assessments, vaccinations, prescriptions, and more — all in one appointment. No prescription? No prescriber? No problem!
Our digitized medical directives allow eligible patients to receive prescriptions in a flash, issued by Ontario MD and NPs.
Watch the video or contact us to learn more!
Collaborate with NPs and MDs so your team can assess and provide medications and supplies for specific conditions, including:
• Hormonal Birth Control
• Basic Travel Health
• Shingles Prevention & Treatment
• Diabetes Supplies
and much more!
I signed up because I think that it's important for patients to have access to care.
I live and work in a rural region where we continue to lose family practitioners, and I want to be part of the solution. Pharmacists are extremely underutilized in the healthcare sector within our current framework. We are incredibly well positioned to help with the access to healthcare crisis that exists in the province right now. This program is definitely a step in that direction.
Kristen's Pharmacy, Ontario, Canada
Kristen Watt, R.Ph
Access to Care has been instrumental in expanding the role of our pharmacy far beyond minor ailment prescribing.
We've been able to assess patients, support their treatment needs, and even provide essential supplies, like diabetic products and inhaler spacers, when physicians were unavailable or inaccessible. Without this program, delivering this level of comprehensive and valuable care to our community would not have been possible.
Jonathan Tsui, R.Ph
Findlay Creek Pharmacy, Ontario, Canada
Recipient of the Leslie Dan Faculty Pharmacy Practice Excellence in Minor Ailments Award
The Access to Care program is an ideal solution that empowers pharmacists to take a leading role in patient care.
It’s the only model that truly enables pharmacies to operate as pharmacist-led clinics, bridging the gap between community care and clinical services. With technology that’s intuitive, and purpose-built for pharmacy, MedEssist has made it easy for us to successfully expand services like travel health — helping us reach more patients and increase uptake. It’s been a valuable opportunity to grow our clinical impact and strengthen our role as healthcare providers in our community.
Ramez Girgis, R.Ph
Guardian Discount Pharmacy, Ontario, Canada
Access to Care has allowed our pharmacy to support our local population in ways that were never possible before.
Kumail Remtulla, R.Ph
Everest Whole Health Pharmacy, Ontario, Canada
Being near a campus, we often see students who need timely access to care, especially for services like contraception and HPV prevention. A student came in once after seeing our in-store signage about contraception. She hadn’t been able to get an appointment with her doctor, but we were able to assess her on the spot and provide her with timely care without unnecessary delay. This program empowers us to meet real needs in real time – filling a critical gap for young people who often fall through the cracks of the healthcare system.
- Hormonal Birth Control
- Shingles Treatment
- Shingles Prevention
- RSV Prevention
- Pneumococcal Disease Prevention
- HPV Prevention
- Diabetes Supplies
- Inhaler Chambers
- History of Anaphylaxis - Epinephrine injectors
- Fever and Malaise
- Basic Travel Health (new!)
- Strep Throat (coming soon)
And more to come!
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