Primary Care Providers in Oceanside

 

There are 9 family practice clinics in the Oceanside area. They are:

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Dr. Satish Desai 101- 156 Morison Avenue PO Box 220 Parksville, BC, V9P 2G4 Ph:   250-248-3133 Fax:  250-248-3178	Parksville Medical Clinic 154 Memorial Avenue Parksville, BC, V9P 2G4 Ph:  250-248-5757 Fax: 250-248-2128	Weld Street Clinic 168 Weld Street Parksville, BC, V9P 2H1 Ph:  250-248-5677 Fax: 250-248-4287
McCarter Family Physicians 202 - 180 McCarter St, Box 1540 Parksville, BC, V9P 2H4 Ph:  250-954-1499 Fax: 250-954-1479	Qualicum Beach Associates Clinic 3-319 Fern Road West PO Box 670 Qualicum Beach, BC, V9K 1T2 Ph:  250-752-7100 Fax: 250-752-7171	Qualicum Medical Centre 173 Fern Road West Qualicum Beach, BC, V9K 1S4 Ph:  250-752-0557 or 250-752-6907 Fax: 250-752-6918
Memorial Avenue Medical Clinic 744 Memorial Avenue, Box 310 Qualicum Beach, BC, V9K 1S8 Ph:  250-594-2009 Fax: 250-594-2005	Dr. Pieter Swart Suite 1A, Fern Road West PO Box 219 Qualicum Beach, BC, V9K 2M2 Ph:  250-752-3284 Fax: 250-752-3519

In additional to family practice ​clinics, there are also primary care services available at the Oceanside Health Centre.  There are currently 4 Nurse Practitioners providing full-time and primary care at the Health Centre.  You can access their services by:

• Appointments for current patients are available Monday to Friday 9:00am to 4:30pm
• Appointments can be made by phone or in person
• Patients of the Oceanside Health Centre’s Primary Care practice can get a same-day appointment for urgent concerns by calling before 12:00pm
• Primary Care services are linked to all other programs at the Oceanside Health Centre, to ensure patient care and follow-up is coordinated
• Oceanside Health Centre Primary Care accepts patients from the Patient Attachment Mechanism (PAM) waitlist. To be added to the waitlist please visit surveys.divisionsbc.ca/pam.aspx

Nurse practitioners (NP) were first regulated in B.C. in 2005.  NPs must meet advanced requirements to register as NPs and use the NP title.  These nursing professionals are usually educated in a master's program.  They are also regulated for reasons of public safety and to support a sustainable health care system.  They are not substitutions for physicians but their roles complement one another in order to improve patient access.  When NPs and physicians work together, the physicians can focus on more complex diagnosis and treatment of diseases. 

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