The Central Okanagan Division of Family Practice (CODFP) is proud to offer our community family practice clinics and provider groups 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, staff and patients.

To be clear: grants are intended for short projects on one of this year's topics. For more information on what grants cannot be used for, see the list of exclusions and FAQ below.

The clinic & project grants are available to family physicians working in the Central Okanagan.

Specifically:

• The physician practices in the Central Okanagan and is not 100% virtual.

• The clinic is primarily MSP-funded, and has at least one practicing, primarily MSP-funded Family Physician.

Clinics that are NOT eligible:

• Clinics without Family Physicians.

• Clinics owned and operated by Interior Health (or another Health Authority).

For further questions about applying as a group of physicians or partnering with other clinics, see the FAQ section at the bottom of this page.

Grant funding 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.

• Clinical trials

• Projects which are supported by other sources of funding (e.g. DoBC, FPSC etc.) This includes:

  • Staff training on new technology (e.g. online booking system, EMR, new software/ equipment, or online security).

  • Purchase of software or hardware.

• Retreats, catering, social events, or appreciation gifts.

For more questions, please see the FAQ section at the bottom of this page.

Maximum grant amounts are funded based on the number of family physician* full-time equivalent (FTE). If a physician works one day per week, that is 0.2 FTE and five days per week is 1.0 FTE.

Clinics with:

• 0.1 to 1.9 family physician FTE will receive $2,000

• 2.0 – 4.9 family physician FTEs will receive $4,500

• 5.0 or more family physician FTEs will receive $7.500

For example, if your clinic has 2 full-time family physicians and 3 family physicians that see patients half-time, the clinic is eligible for $4,500 (2 + 1.5 FTEs = 3.5 FTEs).

* Funding is based on Family Physicians working in the clinic (not specialists, NPs, allied health, etc.)

While the maximum grant funding is determined by your clinic’s total FTE, the actual grant amount awarded will be determined based on receipts submitted in your end of project report.

A clinic (or group) will receive the initial 80% of the funds shortly after project approval.

A clinic (or group) will receive the remaining 20% of project funds upon project completion. We will send you an end of project template to provide a brief summary of your project, after which you will receive the remaining funding.