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Medical clinic permanently closes after funding cut
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HILARY ANGUS
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The Park and Tilford Medical Clinic has closed its doors, citing ongoing financial pressures that made it difficult to retain doctors. The clinic was first opened 35 years ago by a group of family physicians who were all on staff at Lions Gate Hospital. Dr. John Maynard, now retired, was one of those founding members. “Walk-in clinics were starting to show their presence on the North Shore,” Maynard said. “We thought it would be an ideal opportunity to offer that service to our patients and to the community in general.” Maynard said the main purpose of the clinic was to offer same-day visits and urgent care, both to their own patients as well as other patients on the North Shore who didn’t have family doctors. The model worked for many years, he said. Even as many of the founding members retired or moved onto other things, younger doctors replaced them. But over the last four or five years, Maynard said, things evolved. The fee-for-service offered through Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health agreement was no longer enough to entice new family doctors to do extra shifts, including evenings and weekends, on a walk-in clinic or urgent care basis. Continued on A23
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