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About the Colwood Clinic

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The City of Colwood's ("the City") 2023 Household Prosperity Survey showed that the single most important issue to many Colwood residents was that they didn't have a family physician.

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The Colwood Clinic ("the Clinic") is a new clinic providing family doctors to residents of Colwood. The family doctors are recruited and employed by the City of Colwood, and the clinic is leased and managed by the City of Colwood. 

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The City's business case for the Clinic showed that the Colwood Clinic could connect 10,000 Colwoodians with a family physician by the fifth year of operation, with no ongoing impact on municipal tax funding.

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This pilot project represents a new way of delivering care within the existing medical system, made possible by forward thinking improvements made by the Ministry of Health in 2022 with the introduction of the Longitudinal Family Practice program. 

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About the Colwood Medical Clinic Foundation

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The Colwood Medical Clinic Foundation ("the Foundation") was established as a Trust for the primary purpose of improving medical infrastructure within Colwood but also to support community health programs and initiatives to enhance overall community health.

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The formal purpose of the Trust is to improve the Colwood Clinic's medical infrastructure, including:

• Funding new major equipment acquisition (e.g., an MRI machine)

• Upgrading existing equipment

• Purchasing smaller medical tools and instruments, such as heart rate cuffs, for use in the Clinic.

 

A key role of the Trustees is establish the criteria for selecting medical equipment for the Clinic, such as needs identified by medical staff. Funds donated to the clinic are held and managed by the Foundation in accordance with the Colwood Medical Clinic Foundation Trust Agreement. Until the Foundation is registered as a charity, donors are directed to the Municipality of Colwood to obtain a Charitable donation receipt.