The city of Colwood, Canada, has taken a groundbreaking step by establishing the first municipal medical clinic in the country. The clinic, named Colwood Medical Clinic, will be staffed by eight family doctors and aims to provide care to approximately 10,000 patients from the community of Colwood, where many residents currently lack access to primary care.
The City of Colwood has hired the first family doctor for its municipally run Colwood Medical Clinic, which it calls a first in Canada . Colwood Mayor Doug Kobayashi called the hiring a great Christmas gift for us and our community, adding: It’s been quite the journey to get to where we are now. Dr. Cassandra Stiller- Moldovan, a family doctor and sports medicine physician from London, Ont., has already purchased a home in the area, the mayor said.
She’s due to arrive in mid-January with her partner and two-year-old daughter and hopes to open her practice in February, the mayor said. Stiller-Moldovan will be based in Colwood Commons, the hub of the growing Royal Bay neighbourhood, where space has been leased from Pure Integrative Pharmacy and renamed Colwood Medical Clinic. About 70 per cent of Colwood’s 22,000 residents who responded to a city survey last year said having a family doctor was their highest priority. The goal is for the clinic to be able to take on 10,000 patients from an estimated 14,000 people in Colwood who currently don’t have a family doctor. After talking with physicians, the city concluded that if it could take over some of the paperwork and business aspects of a family practice and provide a pension and benefits, it might encourage physicians to stay, Kobayashi said. The city will handle the paperwork, pensions, human resources and financial services and benefits, as it already does for other employees. The city is really well-equipped to do administration, said Kobayashi. We are taking away all the business side for the doctors so they can practise being a physician eight hours a day. The pilot project involves hiring eight family doctors — a second physician has already expressed strong interest — and four medical office assistants, which is ongoing. One medical clinic director and one operations manager have already been hire
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