Urgent and Primary Care Centre aims to be up and running by fall 2022
Consistency, stability, and having a primary care physician are three things area residents have said they want from health care in the community, and Interior Health (IH) says that changes coming soon to Ashcroft aim to provide all three, with a clinic open seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
“Our goal is that by the end of this year we’ll have these three things,” says Carl Meadows, IH West Executive Director of Clinical Operations for the Thompson-Cariboo. His words come less than a week after an Ashcroft resident went into cardiac arrest on July 17; an ambulance took 25 minutes to arrive, and the Ashcroft emergency department was closed due to limited physician availability.
