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Northern Health launching Virtual Primary and Community Care Clinic
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Northern BC residents will soon have same-day access to health care supports needed as a new Virtual Primary and Community Care Clinic is being created.
The virtual clinic will be staffed with 28 full-time healthcare providers, and can be accessed from 10 am until 10 pm any day of the week.
It will be staffed with telecare and front-line nurses, clinic coordinators, administrative staff, a telecare team lead, and a program specialist.
“This virtual clinic will make a meaningful difference in addressing our large geography and service availability in small remote communities,” said CEO of Northern Health, Cathy Ulrich.
Dr. Sandra Allison emphasized the finding. That was a message we heard right across the north, she said during a briefing with local media. Poverty is an important challenge.
Citing First Call: B.C., a poverty-reduction advocacy group, Allison said one in five children in the province live below the low-income measure and it s worse in at least one northern B.C. community. If you look at some of our centres, like Prince Rupert for example, up to 38 or 40 per cent of children are living in poverty there, Allison said.
According to an accompanying Northern Health report, the fallout from living in poverty can include inadequate housing, insufficient and low-quality food, being left out of sport and cultural activities, lower involvement in education and living with the stigma of being seen as different from other children.
The first phase of registration is based on age with the oldest people receiving their inoculations first. On Wednesday, the next wave of eligible people can call in to book their appointments. People in that group must be 80 or older (born in 1941 or earlier). The call centre will be staffed seven days per week from 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. The public immunization clinics start on Monday, March 15 and in Prince George that clinic will be at the downtown Conference and Civic Centre on Canada Games Way. Each city in the Northern Health region has varying dates when the clinics will be operating and those dates are posted for each city on the health authority’s website - northernhealth.ca.
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