Nine months after high costs threatened to close the Ucluelet primary care clinic, Island Heath is seeking proposals to lease space for a new location.
“I’m thinking [the developer] may have to tweak his drawings slightly to accommodate what they’re looking for exactly but that’s up to him now to do that work and apply to Island Health,” McEwen said, noting the developer, Nick Killins of Clayoquot Construction Ltd., owns the lot in question.
Island Health reached an 11th-hour deal with doctors at the Ucluelet Medical Clinic and the landlord to keep the doors open for 18 months until a long-term solution could be found. All of the physicians serving Ucluelet are based in Tofino and work shifts at Tofino General Hospital, a 40-minute drive from Ucluelet.
In the early days, there were public consultations and stakeholder groups, a facilitator, thoughts of combining the clinic with the ambulance station, and options to use district-owned land. Time dragged on, construction costs soared and eventually it was put on hold. When a building that could have been retrofitted came on the market, “we couldn’t come to an agreement with the owner for the price,” she said.
The heath authority wants the successful proponent to provide almost 7,000 rentable square feet of space for a community health centre that includes primary care, mental health and substance use, community home services and other clinical professionals as part of a primary care network strategy being implemented across Vancouver Island.
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