Community Paramedicine at Clinic (CP@clinic) is an innovative, evidence-based chronic disease prevention, management, and health promotion program that seeks to:

Improve older adults’ health and quality of life, and reduce their social isolation
Better connect older adults with primary care and community resources
Reduce the economic burden of avoidable 911 calls by older adults

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Lives Improved

"When the CP@clinic paramedics come, you sit down and talk to them, and you find out it’s not something you needed to go to the hospital for... you get peace of mind"
~ Quote from CP@clinic Participant

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Paramedic Services

To date, 33 paramedic services across Ontario are running CP@clinic. Program expansion across Ontario and Canada is in progress!

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CP@clinic Sites

Current CP@clinic locations include 184 social housing buildings. Shelters coming soon!

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Partners

Brant, Chatham-Kent, Essex-Windsor, Frontenac, Grey, Guelph, Halton, Hamilton, Hastings, Hearst, Iroquois Falls, Matheson, Norfolk, Peel, Simcoe, Sudbury, Timmins and York Region

Dr. Gina Agarwal and the McMaster Community Paramedicine Research Team were awarded Health Care Policy Contribution Program (HCPCP) funding by Health Canada to expand the innovative Community Paramedicine at Clinic (CP@clinic) program with paramedic services across Canada.

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📢 New in @FrontPubHealth

This paper describes the new Social Housing of Ontario (SHO) registry, which has 2,109 social housing sites. This ground-breaking resource will impact future health research and decision making for social housing
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🔗https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1770282

Dr @GinaAgarwall has joined the Quarter Century Club @McMasterU! Yesterday, Dr. Agarwal attended the celebratory lunch and received a McMaster tartan blanket to acknowledge her contribution of 25 Years of Service. Congratulations Gina!

Drs @ginaagarwall & @ricangeles, & the @AdZUOfficial CHAP-P team are hosting a KT meeting in the Philippines with national, regional, and local policy makers to present the impact of CHAP-P in a geopolitical region & discuss knowledge uptake into the Philippine health system.

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