Clinic
Collaborative Health Centre Sought
Colleen O’Neil has been working to build better health-care support as part of the Medical Clinic Society on Bowen. She sees a dire need for a health centre so that islanders don’t have to leave the island when they feel least like commuting into town for health services. O’Neil is flabbergasted that it would appear…
Read MoreAccess is Everything
A long time ago, Izaak Walton said that health is “a blessing that money cannot buy.” We have, however, spent a great deal of money and come a very long way in health care since the seventeenth century, with incredible advances in medicine and greatly improved delivery and access to services. But not everyone in…
Read MoreLet’s Take the Next Steps Toward a Medical Clinic
The Caring Circle has had some major successes- from providing a health care services portal, health programming, a driver program and advocacy work to improve health services on Bowen. Another related initiative has been the nascent offshoot Community Medical Clinic Society, dedicated to the establishment and maintenance of a primary health care facility. Sounds simple,…
Read MoreMovie Under the Stars Sponsored by the Community Medical Clinic
August 11, 2014 – come and visit our Facebook page for details!
Read MoreCouncil Hears Competing Visions for Development of Lot #2
By Meribeth Deen Bowen Island Undercurrent Jan 30, 2014 at 1:00 PM On Monday, Council heard from both the theatre community and the gymnastics community about potential uses of community lands in Snug Cove. Another perspective, brought to council in the form of a letter written by the Bowen Island Caring Circle, was put on…
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