HealthForceOntario Marketing and Recruitment Agency

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

HealthForceOntario Marketing and Recruitment Agency

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    • HealthForceOntario Marketing and Recruitment Agency

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      Description area

      Dates of existence

      2006-

      History

      In 2006, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and the Ministry of Training, Colleges and University collaborated to create HealthForceOntario.

      Initially, HealthForceOntario Marketing and Recruitment Agency (HFO MRA) identified and met the following needs and priorities: physician supply increase, clinical care maintenance, collaborative practice establishment, health profession licensing promotion, and client and stakeholder satisfaction measurement.

      As of 2017, HFO MRA has been striving to meet the following needs and priorities focusing on physician distribution, self-sufficient physician staffing, collaborative care recruitment, delivering licensing assistance and alternative career programs, and establishing strategic planning and enhanced reporting programs.

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      Functions, occupations and activities

      The HealthForceOntario Marketing and Recruitment Agency (HFO MRA) is an operational service agency focused on building and maintaining the province's health human resources capacity through retention and distribution of Ontario's health professionals and recruitment and outreach to internationally-educated health professionals living in Ontario and outside Ontario.

      Working with its partners, which include communities, Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs), the Ontario Government, recruiters and health professionals, HFO MRA aims to achieve the vision of healing to ensure Ontarians have access to the right mix and number of health professionals, where and when they are needed.

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      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (1999-)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA117

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care controls HealthForceOntario Marketing and Recruitment Agency

      Dates of relationship

      2006-

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      Control area

      Authority record identifier

      CA2362

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      Rules and/or conventions used

      RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

      Status

      Approved

      Level of detail

      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

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          Archivist(s):
          Hopp