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Jordan StevensonFor Port Hope Mayor
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Plan priority 02

Better Access to Basic Healthcare

Town Hall can organize local assets, identify broken handoffs, support credible delivery partners, advocate through County and provincial channels and report publicly on healthcare access gaps.

Own the resident's experience

Jordan will use Town Hall and the mayor's County Council seat to help unlock credible local care through space, coordination, advocacy and limited, accountable investment.

The short version

At a glance

Three first actions

  1. Publish a local healthcare action plan naming the gaps Port Hope can help address and who owns each next step.
  2. Offer appropriate municipal space or limited support where it unlocks a credible and governed service.
  3. Use the mayor's County Council seat to push for stronger community paramedicine and mobile care.

What it costs

Use limited, transparent municipal contributions to unlock credible services backed by healthcare partners, measurable outcomes and sustainable operating funding.

How you can check

  • More residents complete referrals and follow-up.
  • Community-paramedicine and mobile-service reach improves.
  • Supported services have clear hours, escalation routes and clinical governance.
  • Municipal and partner spending is publicly connected to outcomes.
  • Unresolved service gaps have a named owner and escalation path.

Jordan’s commitment

Town Hall should make the local pathway into care work.

Jordan will use Town Hall and the mayor's County Council seat to help unlock credible local care through space, coordination, advocacy and limited, accountable investment.

What I'll do

Concrete commitments

  • Map primary-care, urgent-care, paramedicine, mental-health and virtual-care gaps using official partner information
  • Offer suitable municipal space where a credible provider and operating model exist
  • Use the mayor's County role to press for coordinated community paramedicine and mobile service
  • Publish specific asks to the Province and report the response
  • Set privacy, clinical-governance, accessibility and follow-up requirements for any municipally supported service

What I support

  • Expanded community paramedicine within County and provincial roles
  • Virtual care connected to real follow-up, diagnostics, prescriptions and in-person escalation
  • Municipal space or limited funding where it unlocks a credible, governed service
  • Recruitment and retention work tied to evidence and partner commitments

Standards I'll apply

  • Back local care that completes the pathway from first contact to follow-up
  • Connect virtual care to diagnostics, prescriptions, referrals and in-person escalation
  • Tie municipal support to credible providers, partner funding, measurable outcomes and review dates
  • Use jurisdiction to identify the right route and keep carrying the resident's file
Details and trade-offsHow the position works

Community paramedicine

Through County Council, advocate for stable programs that expand access alongside primary care.

  • Chronic-condition monitoring and medication support
  • Hospital discharge follow-up
  • Falls assessment and aging at home
  • Support for frequent emergency-department or 911 users
  • Assessment, referral and connection to local services

Virtual care with a complete pathway

Virtual care should connect residents to diagnostics, prescriptions, referrals, in-person escalation and completed follow-up.

  • Assisted access and technology support for seniors and residents without suitable devices
  • Privacy and accessibility standards
  • Integrated diagnostics, prescriptions and referrals
  • Clear in-person escalation and completed follow-up

Municipal tools that unlock care

Possible tools include a care hub, rotating nurse-practitioner or visiting-provider space, mobile or pop-up care, a paramedicine base, temporary clinical workspace, recruitment support and transportation.

  • Qualified delivery partners
  • External operating funding
  • A sustainable plan and defined service gap
  • Published outcomes and review dates
  • Defined municipal contribution and partner funding

In practice

Town Hall should help carry the file

No wrong door means residents get a clear explanation, a useful next step and visible advocacy.

Use limited, transparent municipal contributions to unlock safe care from credible providers.

What an honest decision must include

  • Municipal help should unlock service through existing healthcare partners
  • Space and limited investment work best with sustainable clinical operating funding
  • Virtual care improves reach when residents can complete the full care pathway
ResponsibilityWho is responsible

Responsibility sets the route to action. Jordan will keep the file moving until residents have a clear answer.

Port Hope controls

  • Municipal property and convening capacity
  • Limited local grants or investment approved through the budget
  • Local advocacy, communications and navigation support

Cooperation required

  • Ontario Ministry of Health and Ontario Health
  • Northumberland County Paramedics
  • Primary-care organizations, hospitals, community providers and clinicians
Measure progressHow you can check the result
  • Residents attached to primary care where official data is available
  • Community-paramedicine reach and referral completion
  • Waits, service hours and in-person escalation from supported access points
  • Provincial requests, commitments and unresolved gaps
  • Municipal dollars, partner dollars and outcomes for supported projects
Official sourcesRead the public record
How I'll Govern

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