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Richmond’s first Community Health Centre will be located at 7671 Alderbridge Way. The site will soon be home to Richmond’s Adult and Older Adult Mental Health Teams and the Anne Vogel Clinic (as at June 6), and the recently obtained 27,000 square feet of additional space will allow Richmond to build on these MH&SU programs to create a comprehensive Community Health Centre.
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A gift of space will become Richmond’s first
Community Health Centre (CHC), a unified place for specific health care needs.
Room in the former Knowledge Network building
at 7671 Alderbridge Way (near Lansdowne Road), now under renovation, will
become home the first weekend of June to mental health, addiction services and
the Anne Vogel clinic as a start of what will be a much larger integrated
health centre, our first in Richmond.
“Beyond that, we will be asking ourselves
what services should be grouped together there? We have a number of different
services in different buildings, so this CHC could be a one-stop shop for
Richmond residents. It’s a super opportunity,” says Dr. Meena Dawar, Richmond
Public Health’s medical health director.
“We are looking at all options. We know for sure mental health and
addiction services for adults will be in there. We have twice as much space that
just came available so this is a chance to say, ‘What else do we need at that
location?’ so all ideas are on the table at this point.”
One example of a service known to be moving
into the Community Health Centre is the Anne Vogel Clinic, currently on Cook
Road, while other services for the same clients are offered in a high rise on
Granville Street.
Integrating the services into one location
means more effective use of money, space and clients’ time.
With the fastest growing population of the
elderly in B.C., Dawar says services for seniors and those with complex care
needs look likely to be included. But she says, “it’s too early to tell, ”what
other specific services will be housed at Richmond’s CHC.
What is known is that the clinic will all be
out-patient care.
“Find
me in a couple of months’ time when we’ve gone further in our thinking. We want
to be able to provide complete care, interdisciplinary care to Richmond
residents.”
With the move, some phone numbers are
changing. To find out which, go to: http://vchnews.ca/news-richmond/2017/05/31/new-home-rmd-mental-health-substance-use-services/#.WTHmfsm1ufc
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