Kootenay Boundary

Public Health Units offers a variety of services in one location.

Early Years: Public Health Nurses (PHNs) assess maternal & newborn health and development, and provide education and ongoing support through early childhood as needed.

Child Health Clinics: Global health and development assessments, health information, education and referrals. Immunizations according to the BC Immunization Guide for children at 2, 4, 6, 12, and 18 months, and for 4-6 year olds.

Prenatal programs

Immunizations

BC Early Hearing Program

Speech and Language

Nutrition

Dental health programs

Communicable Disease Control

Harm Reduction Supplies and Services

Sexual Health & Youth

Kimberley Health Centre & Home Support offers a variety of services in one location. Each centre has an interdisciplinary healthcare team that provides a range of services in a single site – i.e. a checkup with your family doctor, a visit to a physiotherapist, pharmacist, or public health nurse. The selection of services offered in each Primary Health Care Centre reflects the unique needs of its community.

This facility is also a Community Health Centre, which offers a variety of services in one location. The types of services delivered depend on patient needs and on whether comparable services are available nearby. Centres that offer one type of specialized outpatient care procedure (such as eye surgery) are classified based on that service.

Kimberley Health Centre & Home Support also offers:

Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG)

Holter Monitor

Radiology (X-ray)

Rehabilitation

Community Health Centres do not have acute care beds, but may provide: basic laboratory and radiology; urgent care; outpatient ambulatory care; community services; long term residential care services; and/or on-site doctors’ offices.