Patients & Caregivers
Request home and community care services
The care you need, when you need it.
Services are available in Peterborough and Peterborough County.
To submit a referral specify your location below, then select a category.
Finding Your Way
This handbook was created to support patients & their loved ones navigating the healthcare system.
Click on the links below for copies of the worksheets from handbook:
About Us
Peterborough Ontario Health Team (POHT) aims to provide more coordinated healthcare with a seamless experience across different services, providers and settings.
Our team includes representation from acute care, primary care, palliative care, home and community care, long-term care, retirement homes, community support services, paramedicine, mental health and addictions, indigenous service partners and more.
We strive to create a system that is understandable, digitally enabled and collaborative.
Who we are
We are a collaborative network of formal alliance partners who guide project planning, design, and implementation, and affiliate partners who help ensure patients in our community can access and navigate healthcare in a smooth and coordinated way.
Partnering Organizations
Our organizations have been working together both formally and informally for years. As an OHT, we are committed to building on these partnerships to ensure all patients in our region are able to access and navigate the healthcare system in a seamless and coordinated way.
Together, this group of care providers and local organizations have the capacity, knowledge and leadership to improve health outcomes in Peterborough and the surrounding region.
For Providers
The Peterborough OHT will address the healthcare needs of the population by building on our existing partnerships and collaborations to further integrate and streamline care.
Priority Areas
- Primary Care Access, Attachment and Enablement
- Integrated Clinical Priorities
- OHT Capacity Building
Community Paramedicine Program
Peterborough County-City Paramedics have expanded their Community Paramedic Program (CPP) with a goal of improving the experience and health outcomes of people in the greater Peterborough region.
Community Paramedics will be offering in-home clinical assessments for patients referred to the program, along with interventions to ensure people are remaining safe and healthy at home.
To apply for the Community Paramedicine Program for yourself or a family member, please complete the self/family referral form by clicking on the button above.
As a healthcare provider, you can create an account in Caredove to send referrals from a logged in account. This will allow clinicians to keep track of referrals sent, and receive updates from the Community Paramedicine team.
Healthcare providers can submit a referral by clicking on the button above.
Peterborough OHT Strategic Planning 2025-2029
COMING SOON!
The Peterborough Ontario Health Team (POHT) will be launching our new strategic plan in June 2025. This plan will guide our work and decision-making over the next four years, from 2025 to 2029.
Opportunities & Careers
Are you interested in contributing to health and social services within Peterborough and Peterborough County? Check out available opportunities below!
OPERATIONS TEAM
Primary Care Network Lead
18 months with possibility of renewal
Communications and Community Engagement Specialist
Temporary Part-Time contract to March 31, 2027 | 20 hours per week
Program Coordinator
Temporary Full-Time contract to March 31, 2027
Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter to [email protected] outlining their qualifications and experience.
The Peterborough OHT acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the traditional and treaty territory of the Mississauga Anishnaabe. We make this acknowledgment to honour our relationship with the William’s Treaty First Nations of Alderville, Curve Lake, Hiawatha and Scugog Island who continue, in their ancestor’s footsteps, to be stewards of this land and the surrounding waters. Our community has much to learn from the First People. May we honour their teachings for the benefit of generations to come.