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Description: We are a family based, general practice clinic, 5 days a week, 8:45 - 4:30 (4 on Fridays) We specialize in rural, culturally appropriate medical care. We encourage patients to establish a long-term relationship with one of our physicians. Our Vision: We strive to provide excellence in primary care for our community and to enable patients to be partners in the management of their health care. Excellence in health care needs includes: - Improved access. This ensures that patients see a health care provider
family medicine (347) general practice (225) community health (100) chronic disease management (49) patient-centered care (44) primary care clinic (16) rural health care (13) culturally appropriate care (3) health care efficiency (3) health care partnership (2)
It means we have the pleasure of knowing you not only as patients, but also as our neighbours and friends. We have the privilege of guiding you through some of the biggest events in your lives. We hold your secrets in confidence, counsel you through tough times, and share your tears as your loved one passes. It is our familiar faces putting you to sleep for your surgery, and our hands that wield the scalpel while you are under. We have even brought some of you back from the brink of death. It breaks our hea
We are grateful for the ability to care for you throughout pregnancies, deliver your children, and watch them grow from both our medical and community roles. We have been their judo and Lego League instructors, basketball coaches, Sparks leaders, swim and ski race supports... the list goes on. We want to be everything for this community, but the reality is that is no longer sustainable.
As of March 31st, the government has decided that the care we provide in hospital is worth less than that same care given in clinic - even though for us they are under the same roof. While it is rewarding to offer all the extended services we are able to in Pincher Creek, they do come at a cost. This work is what steals us away from our patients during office hours and our families on evenings and weekends.
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