Community Health Centres (CHC) - Pender Community Health Centre

Condition Specific Support, Healthcare Providers, Home Health Care, Mental Health - Adult & Senior, and Public Health

Provided by Vancouver Coastal Health

Pender Community Health Centre (CHC) serves the Downtown Eastside, Gastown, and Strathcona communities. They provide a range of health care and support services to people who have acute, chronic, palliative or rehabilitative health care needs. Clients must reside in the downtown eastside, have no other primary care provider (are not attached to another family physician elsewhere), and experience barriers accessing services elsewhere.
Services provided at this CHC include:
  • Elders in residence - Where Elders and Knowledge Keepers from different First Nations in acute and community health care sites
  • Palliative Care in your home- Home hospice palliative care provides physical, emotional, social and spiritual care in the home to comfort and improve the quality of life for those living with or dying from advanced illness.
  • Opioid Agonist Treatment
  • Prenatal and Early Years Program
  • Child Health Clinics
  • Harm Reduction Supplies & Needle distribution Sites
  • Dental
  • BC Early Hearing Program
  • Speech and Language
  • Sexual Health & Youth

    Please note public immunizations are not available at this CHC location.

    There are multiple points of access to the CHC including:
    • Self-referral to individual Primary Care sites (referrals to be reviewed by Clinic staff )
    • PARIS referrals by VCH staff to individual sites
    • Central Intake or TST referrals to individual sites

    604-669-9181

    Website: https://www.vch.ca/en/location/pender...

    59 West Pender Street, Vancouver, British Columbia

    Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 6:00 pm

    Service is available in English, French, and Spanish.

    Cost: No cost

    Referral options:

    • Self-referral
    • Physician or nurse practitioner referral
    • Health professional referral
    • Health Authority personnel referral
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    Availability

    Service area: Vancouver

    Service Types Provided
    Condition Specific Support
    • Heptatitis: Hep C
    • HIV / AIDS
    Healthcare Providers
    Home Health Care
    Mental Health - Adult & Senior
    Public Health
    Ways to Access
    • After Hours Services
    • Provided 1:1 in-person
    • Provided at a single location
    • Provided at home
    • Provided in a group in-person

    The listing of this service in Pathways is not a recommendation or endorsement by Pathways.

    Pathways does not provide medical advice. If you have an emergency please call 9-1-1. If you require assistance navigating services please call 8-1-1.

    For general inquiries or for assistance, please email us:

    community-services@pathwaysbc.ca

    If you are requesting clinical access to medical Pathways, please provide the following information via the email above:

    1. First Name
    2. Last Name
    3. Email
    4. In which city/town do you work?
    5. What is your role? E.g. Family Physician, Office Staff, Medical Resident
    6. Employer Name (for office staff)
    7. Office Phone

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