Our PCN Journey: Community Health Centres

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Are you tired of doing the same everyday? Are you looking for a different patient care experience that restores your passion for helping people?

The vision of the Surrey-North Delta Primary Care Network is to build a holistic framework for delivery of primary care services and its connection up and downstream for an extremely large and complex community. Not only does this addresses both physical and mental health needs of the patients, but also the social determinants of health issues.

By leveraging existing community resources and combining that with primary care service delivery at a Community Health Centre, vulnerable populations are able to:

access and receive comprehensive, patient-centred and culturally safe care in their own communities;
receive coordinated care by an interdisciplinary team;
improve health outcomes, especially those with moderate to complex care needs.

In addition, the Community Health Centre employs a community governance model to ensure the equitable service delivery and is based on the population health needs in the community.

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Currently Roots Community Health Centre is working extremely hard to address the substantial gap in primary healthcare services for vulnerable newcomers in Surrey-North Delta. We have also started the conversation with various community partners to address the social determinants of health of our community members.

What is Roots And How Can Physicians Get Involved?

Roots Community Health Centre is looking for Primary Care Providers who enjoy helping marginalized and vulnerable patients, such as refugees. Their mission is to provide person-centered, longitudinal care to vulnerable newcomers through an interdisciplinary, culturally safe team. (Learn more about Roots in this short video.)

The schedule is very flexible: physicians are welcome to join the team from a half-day every 2 weeks to multiple days a week. You have the option of caring for patients in person or through virtual visits from home. Knowledge of Arabic is a plus, but Translation Support is available for both Onsite and Virtual visits, in addition to direct support from allied health team members.

From Dr. Nazia Niazi, who regularly takes time away from her own local practice to work at Roots: "I love working at Roots. Hearing the stories of the people we serve is a humbling reminder of the resilience of the human spirit."

From Dr. Hala Ahmed: “Working at Roots and seeing vulnerable patients is a good reminder of why I chose to be a doctor.”

To join the team, please reach out at rootschcbc@gmail.com!