From the Nanaimo News Bulletin: Gabriola health clinic sees first emergencies. Even before they finished settling in to their offices at the Gabriola Health Care Centre, doctors were already handling their first emergency. Since the clinic opened on June 11, there have been 14 patients brought into the emergency department with conditions such as lacerations, [...]
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The Gabriola Community Health Centre opens today. I wonder who has the first appointment, and if the media will be there. Anyway, this is the front door of the clinic. Rather grand, isn’t it? Here’s a larger version (400 x 533 pixels) of the photo:
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You’ve driven past this sign (on Church Street at North Road) a zillion times. Were you there for the Updating of the Sign yesterday? (Or was it Friday? I forget.) I was; I watched as a fellow modified this sign to add the now open part. I presume he was a volunteer, and what a [...]
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The medical clinic at Twin Beaches will be closed today (Friday, June 8th), because the clinic is moving into the new building at the end of Church Street. I imagine there will be some happy dancing about that! The building itself seems finished, at least from what one can see outside. The end of Church [...]
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It’s always interesting to see which island news stories make it into the big-city papers. The new Gabriola Health Care Centre has caught the media’s attention, and is featured in the Vancouver Sun today: Gabriola Island residents take health care in their own hands. In 2002, Gabriola Island felt the sting of austerity. It lost [...]
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The Gabriola Community Health Centre (AKA medical clinic) is almost finished. Have you seen it lately? Wander up to the end of Church Street if you’d like a peek. (Quite a change of scenery since they first cleared the land.) This project is attracting media attention — we’re the little island that could, and the [...]
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There was a meeting on Gabriola a day or two ago about the proposed medical clinic location. Did you go? I didn’t, and have been wondering how that meeting went. Today I happened to notice a new sign on the window of the Gabriola Health Care Society’s fund-raising office in Folklife Village. It reads: It’s [...]
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The Daily News notes that some people on Gabriola don’t think we need to build a medical clinic on the island. The paper points out the new blog that Shena Meadowcroft and Tony Gibson have started: Proposed Gabriola Clinic – Concerns, Facts & Questions. (The Flying Shingle told us about this blog yesterday. I’d link [...]
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Gabriola’s medical clinic will be built on this site, assuming everything goes according to plan. It’s at the end of Church Street, past the Gabriola ambulance station.
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Update, August, 2010: The Flying Shingle reports: Gabriola Health Care Society accepts Rooks land offer. The Gabriola Health Care Society (GHCS) has accepted an offer of free land on which to build a community-owned medical clinic from Dr. Bob Rooks of Potlatch Holdings. GHC Foundation President Brenda Fowler said at a general meeting Tuesday at [...]
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