Reflections on the First-Ever Integrated Care Action Summit

By: Tricia Wilkerson, Director of Integrated Care, Amplify Care

On November 24 & 25, 2025, members of our Amplify Care team attended the first-ever Integrated Care Action Summit. Over the past few years, we have been fortunate to work closely with two-thirds of the Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) and it was amazing to connect in person. The event was organized by OHTs for OHTs, and 54 of the 58 OHTs were represented at the event. Throughout the two days, there was an abundance of energy and commitment in the room for OHTs and their Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to work together to make a population health difference in Ontario through their collective leadership.

Team members had the opportunity to network and share their work supporting OHTs to identify service gaps, improve healthcare clinician attachment, optimize access to primary care, deliver practice facilitation support and improve integrated care.

As someone who started my career in community development, there were several messages delivered by Jodeme Goldhar that really resonated with me. These included the importance of:

•  moving from condition-based care towards population-based care,
• being brokers, convenors and catalysts for change, and
• leveraging a strengths-based approach to move us forward towards our shared purpose.

Many of the themes Jodeme highlighted are central to how our Integrated Care team puts the right people embedded within systems to turn integrated care from concept into practice. Our action from the Integrated Care Action Summit is to continue to weave these approaches into our integrated care and primary care activities.