In today’s complex health care environment, clinician responsibilities are more numerous and demanding. Consequently, frontline staff often adopt an all hands on deck approach to care delivery rather than maintaining top of license practice.

Michael Garron Hospital is a community teaching hospital located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In 2008, leaders at Michael Garron addressed the challenges and inefficiencies in their traditional care model by transitioning to a collaborative, interprofessional team based model, enabling clinicians to work to their full scopes of practice.

Michael Garron has achieved quality improvements, cost stability, and increased clinician satisfaction since implementing this dynamic staffing model.