The Health Connect Registry is a province-wide patient registry available in the qathet region for people who are looking for a primary care provider. You can register with the Health Connect Registry in qathet if you, your family, or a person in your care live in Powell River, the qathet Regional District (including Texada and Savary Islands), or Tla’amin Nation.

The qathet Primary Care Network (PCN) team is working with clinics in your community to help you find a family doctor or nurse practitioner.

Register Now

The Health Connect Registry is the most efficient way to find a family doctor or nurse practitioner in the region. Once registered, you will be added to the list and contacted directly when a primary care provider is available. We ask you to please be patient, as it may take some time to be connected with a doctor or nurse practitioner.

About Primary Care Networks and the Health Connect Registry

Primary Care Networks (PCNs) are community-based networks of health care professionals and clinics who plan and deliver all day-to-day health care needs of a community. Within these networks, teams of providers work together. This way, patients will receive better care, by the right person, at the right time, closer to home.

PCNs are part of the Province's Primary and Community Care Strategy to make sure you have faster and better access to the everyday health care services. The Health Connect Registry is part of this strategy. The registry works with communities to help match patients with a regular family doctor or nurse practitioner. We know that having a regular provider leads to better health for you and your family.

Update Your Information

Keeping information on the Health Connect Registry up to date is important. This will help us connect you to a family doctor or nurse practitioner. If you need to update information on the Health Connect Registry for yourself, your family or person in your care, please contact HealthLink BC by dialing 8-1-1, or for the deaf and hard of hearing, dialing 7-1-1.

A HealthLink BC health service navigator will ask you for your Personal Health Number. If you are updating information on behalf of your family or a person in your care, you will require their Personal Health Number to make an update.

Information on the Health Connect Registry can only be updated by phone at this time.

Health Services & Resources

Emergency or Immediate Care

If you have a medical emergency, call 9-1-1 or go to your closest emergency department.

General Urgent Care

• Powell River Medical Clinic (public walk-in clinic)
  • Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 am -12:30 pm and 2 pm - 5 pm
  • 4280 Joyce Avenue, Powell River, BC V8A 3A2
  • Phone: 604-485-5501
• Emergency Department at qathet General Hospital (VCH)
  • Hours: Seven days a week, 24 hours a day
  • 5000 Joyce Avenue, Powell River, BC V8A 5R3
• HealthLink BC
  • Call 8-1-1 24/7 for health advice. For the deaf and hard of hearing, dial 7-1-1. You can speak with a health service navigator who can connect you with a registered nurse, registered dietitian, exercise professional or pharmacist.
• Pharmacists: Pharmacists can help you with an emergency prescription.
  • Please visit the HealthLink BC Directory to find a pharmacy near you.

Other urgent supports

• Suicide crisis: 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433)
• Mental health issues: 310-6789 (24 hours)
• Crisis Centre Chat
• Canadian Mental Health Association - Find Help Now

Maternity Care and Babies

• qathet Midwifery Care
  • You can self-refer to qathet Midwifery Care
• VCH Community Health Prenatal and Early Years program
• Pregnancy and early childhood - Vancouver Coastal Health
• LIFT Community Services
  • Healthy Care Pregnancy Program
  • Babies Open New Doors (BOND)

Youth

• Powell River Youth Clinic
  • Powell River Youth Clinic Facebook
  • Phone: 604-485-3310
• Powell River Child, Youth and Family Services Society (PRYCFSS)
  • Phone: 604-485-3090
• Child and Youth Mental Health Clinical Counselling
  • Phone: 604-485-0603

Seniors

• Home and Community Care (VCH – qathet General Hospital)
  • Phone: 604-485-3310
• Gerry Gray Place (drop-in centre for seniors to connect)
  • Hours: Monday-Friday 10 am - 3 pm
  • 106, 7075 Alberni Street, Powell River, BC V8A 2C2
  • Phone: 604-485-4008
• Better at Home program (inclusion Powell River)
  • Program offers non-medical, in-home support to seniors, like visiting, transportation to appointments, etc.
  • Phone: 604-413-0762

• Better at Home program (Texada Island)
  • Better at Home is administered by Inclusion Powell River and BC United Way, with funding from the Province of B.C.
  • Contact Tom Read, Texada volunteer coordinator, at ravenbaywoods@gmail.com
  • Phone: 604-483-1471

• Senior’s Distress Line: 604-872-1234

Indigenous People

• Tla’amin Health
  • 4895 Salish Drive, Powell River, BC V8A 0B6
  • Phone: 604-483-3009
• First Nations Health Authority
• KUU-US Crisis Line Society 24/7 BC-Wide Indigenous Crisis Lines for:
  • Adults/Elders: 250-723-4050
  • Child/Youth: 250-723-2040
  • Métis: 1-833-MétisBC (1-833-638-4722)
  • Toll free: 1-800-588-8717

Mental Health and Substance Use

• Mental Health and Substance Use at qathet General Hospital
  • Reception: 604-485-3300
  • Intake Nurse: 604-485-3300 x4405
• iOAT Clinic – LIFT: Injectable opioid agonist therapy
• Phone support for mental health issues: 310-6789 (24 hours)
• Crisis Centre BC

Immunization

• Immunize BC

The content and resources included on this webpage have been jointly created and curated by the qathet Division of Family Practice and HealthLink BC.