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Patient Attachment Initiative

The Patient Attachment Initiative (PAI) is a referral-based program that helps unattached patients with higher or more complex needs living in Vancouver to find a primary care provider. The PAI works with referral partners within acute, outpatient, inpatient, and specialty services.

If you’re a referral partner looking for information skip to the last section on this page.   

If you are a patient looking for a family doctor or nurse practitioner click here.

Primary Care Providers (Family Physicians and Nurse Practitioners) in Vancouver can work with PAI to match and attach patients who are vulnerable and needing continuity of care for their primary care needs.

What are the benefits for Primary Care Providers working with PAI?
  • Panel Maintenance – Keeping panel size consistent to meet contractual requirements
  • Balanced Panel – Flexibility patient types and demographics
  • Physicians Helping Physicians – Support physicians looking for their own provider by partnering with PAI and the Physician Health Program (PHP)

If you are interested in finding a provider for yourself and you are a FP or NP, click here for more details. 

We need your help!

The PAI is looking for providers who can help patients with specific health needs or requirements.

We are seeking providers who are willing to accept the following patient types:

  • Palliative patients
  • Patients aged 65 and older
  • Maternity patients
  • Patients seeking providers who speak their language, especially Cantonese, Korean, and Spanish
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What does the process look like for accepting providers?

Health Connect Registry

The Health Connect Registry (HCR) is a project of the Ministry of Health to address the attachment need in British Columbia. The registry allows for patients to self-register for attachment and the Vancouver Division of Family Practice assists in matching these patients to primary care providers.

What does the HCR have to offer providers?

  • Flexible list of patients on demand (batch matching)
  • Panel maintenance

For more information including a helpful Q & A, please click here. 

Which attachment stream should you choose?

This depends on your current and future panel needs. We recommend booking a registration call if you’re interested and we can go over the different options and what would suit your panel needs at this time. You can easily switch from HCR to PAI Priority stream OR accept through both.

For more information on the PAI Priority stream contact: pai@vancouverdivision.com 

For more information on the HCR stream contact: vancouverhcr@vancouverdivision.com  

PAI Referral Partners

PAI works with referral partners from across Vancouver to attach moderate to high complex patients. We receive referrals from a variety of sources in the community, including acute, inpatient, outpatient, and specialty clinic settings. The PAI is very involved in getting patients attached who may decompensate in the community and will work with referral partners to communicate complications or concerns with patients referred.

If you are interested in being a referral partner to send patients that need support, are unattached and living in Vancouver, please email  pai@vancouverdivision.com and we can discuss whether the PAI is right for you.

Click here to view a helpful resource list of specific services that PAI has created for referring partners. 

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      • The Vancouver Division is unable to provide sessional payments to other medical professionals.
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