News and Events

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News and Notes

Family physicians receive payment to support longitudinal care

Upcoming webinar about team-based care billing

The GPSC is offering a billing education webinar focused team-based care on billing on January 21, 2020 at 6… Read more

Stories of Most Significant Change: Patient, physician, and allied health perspectives on the patient medical home
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In the News

Vernon urgent care clinic serves 1,274 since opening
Vernon Morning News: Since opening its doors in October, 2019, the Vernon Urgent and Primary Care… Read more

New urgent care centre
Castanet: The new urgent and primary care centre has already had more than 100 patients roll… Read more

Health care access, cost of travel top concerns for B.C. rural residents
Vernon Morning Star: Researchers looking into health care in rural areas are hearing that barriers… Read more

For the Media

Ministry of Health: New urgent and primary-care centre officially opens in Kelowna
January 9, 2020 | People living in the Central Okanagan now have better access to team-… Read more

Ministry of Health: Third urgent and primary care centre opens in the Interior
November 12, 2019 | People living in Vernon now have better access to team-based everyday… Read more

Vancouver Coastal Health: Urgent and Primary Care Centre opens in North Vancouver
November 3, 2019 | People on the North Shore will be able to access team-based everyday… Read more

More than 1,100 patients find care

Oliver Chronicle: Thanks to many local solutions, more than 1,100 patients in our region have been able to find care. “I feel so incredibly lucky,” said Jan Kostek, who located a primary care provider by signing up on the SOS Division regional waitlist at www.divisionsbc.ca/sos. “Finding health care was one of our biggest concerns moving here from Edmonton,” she said. “We’d heard about the physician shortage, and we had no connections.”

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Why Is it so Hard to Find a Doctor in Vancouver?

Vancouver Magazine: Vancouver-based publicist Carine Redmond suffered a stress fracture in her foot in November 2018, an injury that impacted her day-to-day life to such a degree that, before it was diagnosed, she was offered the use of a wheelchair at Palm Springs International Airport when visiting that city one weekend. But without a family doctor—a circumstance that forces her to rely on walk-in clinics—she didn’t know it was a broken bone she was dealing with until almost a month after the pain started. “I went to five different clinics and no one would give me an X-ray,” she says. “So I had a broken foot for weeks until I begged someone—as a favour—to get me an appointment with their podiatrist.”

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Better access to primary health care coming for Maple Ridge region