Clinic Grants 2024-2025

The Vancouver Division of Family Practice (VDOFP) is proud to offer our community family practice clinics a one-time financial grant to support your ideas to improve your Patient Medical Home practices and to build your Primary Care Networks. Our objective is to encourage as many clinics as possible to access the grants for a project that will make a meaningful difference to your clinic and staff.

The clinic grant program is available to Vancouver PMHs with family doctors providing primary care to patients in the community, and not in a care facility (e.g. hospital facility).

Specifically:

• The clinic or practice is Vancouver-based, and is not 100% virtual.
• The clinic provides some aspect of primary care services (though not exclusively longitudinal, and could include specialized populations / specialized services).
• The clinic is primarily MSP-funded, and has at least one practicing, primarily MSP-funded Family Doctor.

Maximum grant amounts are funded based on the number of physician full-time equivalent (FTE) at a clinic. Clinics with:

• 0.1 to 1 family physician FTE will receive $1,000
• 2 – 4 family physician FTEs will receive $2,000
• 5 or more family physician FTEs will receive $4,000

Applications are now closed.

Thank you to the more than 100 clinics who submitted applications for this years’ Clinic Grants program.

Clinic grants cannot be used towards the purchase of computer hardware.

To support your clinic’s technology needs please consider applying to the Division’s PMH Connectivity and Digitization Program: PMH Connectivity

Grant funds cannot be used towards:

• Clinical training or purchasing clinical equipment used by physicians and/or clinicians that involve direct or indirect patient care, or patient information/data.
• Physician time related to patient care.
• Projects which are supported by other sources of funding (e.g. DoBC, FPSC etc.)

• To support your clinic’s technology needs consider applying for the Division’s PMH Connectivity and Digitization Program.
• FPSC offers funding for clinics to perform panel management and to implement Health Data Coalition’s EMR data portal. Click here for current funding opportunities.

Grant monies are considered income for accounting and taxation purposes. It is important that you consider your clinic structure to allow you to match grant income and expenses appropriately for your circumstances. The Vancouver Division issues T4A’s for all individual income. Corporations are not issued T4A’s. Clinics are advised to seek accounting advice if they have any further questions.

Yes. Clinics may work together on a joint project that positively benefits each clinic. Each clinic will be awarded the grant based on the number of physicians working at each clinic, up to $4,000 per clinic. Only one Clinic Owner or Clinic Manager needs to submit the grant request on behalf of all clinics involved.

No. The application is for the entire clinic (or group of clinics). A single application can include multiple ideas. We encourage Clinic Owners and Clinic Managers to apply on behalf of the entire clinic.

New this year: A clinic will receive the initial 50% of the funds shortly after project approval. The remaining 50% is received upon project completion and submission of the end of project report.

Projects must be completed by February 28, 2025 providing clinics up to four (4) months to achieve their desired outcomes.

No. The grant will cover the clinic’s initial project costs, and it is the clinic’s responsibility to pay for any ongoing costs beyond the initial project.