The new Urgent and Primary Care Centre is located in the Ashcroft Hospital. (Image Credit: Interior Health)

By Aaron Schulze

Ashcroft Health Care

New health care centre opens in Ashcroft

Sep 27, 2022 | 10:40 AM

ASHCROFT, B.C. — Residents in and around the Village of Ashcroft have more access to same-day, everyday health care.

The B.C. government announced Ashcroft’s new urgent and primary care centre (UPCC) opened Tuesday (Sept. 27) at the same location as the old Ashcroft Hospital and Community Health Care Centre at 700 Ash-Cache Creek Hwy.

The province says the Ashcroft UPCC will be open seven days a week from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

However, the province says the Ashcroft UPCC is gradually opening. It will first provide urgent primary care services, including connecting patients without a primary care provider to a family doctor or nurse practitioner.

Urgent care services are available for people with conditions like sprains, cuts, high fevers and minor infections who need to see a health-care provider within 12-to-24 hours but don’t require an emergency department.

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“Opening this UPCC in Ashcroft is the first of its kind in Interior Health to stabilize rural health care in a model that provides urgent primary care 12 hours per day close to home, while ensuring the network connection to Royal Inland Hospital when a higher level of care is required,” Susan Brown, Interior Health president and CEO, says. “I am also impressed with the recruitment of staff to support rural care; it indicates to me the passion health-care staff have for team-based rural medicine.”

Primary care services available at the UPCC include diagnosis and treatment for minor illnesses, as well as provision of harm-reduction supplies and education, reproductive care, vaccinations and injections, early detection, guideline-based chronic disease management, and co-ordination of services, referrals to community services, pre- and post-surgical care and ongoing monitoring.