Community Health Centres
(including Primary Health Care Centres)
Community Health Centres offer a variety of services in one location. The types of services delivered depend on patient needs and on whether comparable services are available nearby. Centres that offer one type of specialized outpatient care procedure (such as eye surgery) are classified based on that service. Community Health Centres do not have acute care beds but may offer:
- Basic laboratory and radiology (x-ray) services
- Urgent care
- Outpatient ambulatory care procedures such as day surgery
- Community services such as public health or physiotherapy
- Long term residential care services
- On-site doctors’ offices
Primary Health Care Centres are currently available in ten Interior Health communities (indicated with * and linked to online information). They are Community Health Centres with a more comprehensive and coordinated approach to healthcare delivery. Each centre has an interdisciplinary healthcare team that provides a range of services in a single site – i.e. a checkup with your family doctor, a visit to a physiotherapist, pharmacist, or public health nurse. The selection of services offered in each Primary Health Care Centre reflects the unique needs of its community.
Thompson Cariboo Shuswap Health Service Area Community Health Centres
- Alexis Creek Outpost Hospital (urgent care)
- Ashcroft: Ashcroft & District General Hospital (urgent care)
- Barriere: Barriere Health Centre (urgent care)
- Blue River Outpost Hospital (urgent care)
- *Chase: Chase Health Centre (urgent care)
- *Logan Lake: Logan Lake Health Centre (urgent care)
- Lytton: St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (urgent care)
- *Kamloops: Thompson Park Mall
- Tatla Lake: West Chilcotin Health Centre
Okanagan Health Service Area Community Health Centres
- Armstrong: Pleasant Valley Health Centre; Ophthalmology Centre (no urgent care or day surgery)
- *Enderby: Enderby Community Health Centre; Primary Health Care model (17 different care professions: physicians, public health nurses, community care nurses, a nurse practitioner, addictions and mental health counsellors, home support workers, lab technicians, speech & language therapists, etc. all under one roof).
- Keremeos: South Similkameen Health Centre (urgent care)
- Summerland: Summerland Health Centre; Day Surgery Centre (no urgent care)
Kootenay Boundary Health Service Area Community Health Centres
- Castlegar: Castlegar & District Community Health Centre (urgent care)
- Edgewood Outpost Hospital (urgent care)
- *Kaslo: Victorian Community Health Centre (urgent care)
- *New Denver: Slocan Community Health Centre (urgent care)
East Kootenay Health Service Area Community Health Centres
- Elkford: Elkford Community Health Centre (urgent care)
- *Kimberley: Kimberley Health Centre (no urgent care)
- *Sparwood: Sparwood Community Health Centre (urgent care/day renal dialysis)
*Primary Health Care Centre (see definition above)