A commentary by a co-chair of Shoreline Medical Society.
I’m somewhat of a rarity in this part of the world — I was born on Vancouver Island and grew up on the Saanich Peninsula, which is where I have chosen both to live and work.
I also learned that the Saanich Peninsula, originally a small farming and fishing enclave, developed community strength early in its history. People who lived here fought for what they needed, especially health care. However, I know from examining the history of health care in Canada that, as Winston Churchill once said, “success is not final.”
Starting in 2005, hospital foundation board members were introduced to the ideas developing in other parts of Canada to assist in the recruitment and retention of physicians — primary health care centres, incentives for physicians and the integration of allied health care workers to support community health care.
I felt that this work could be the most important on the peninsula since the opening of SPH, so I joined the board of Shoreline Medical Society. Since 2016, we have grown from five founding physicians to 25, expanded facilities in Sidney and opened a second location in Brentwood Bay. We have found physicians for more than 10,000 residents of the Saanich Peninsula, have a total patient panel of 18,000 and have worked diligently with the new Primary Care Network infrastructure to incorporate allied health workers.
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