Residents of Fort St. James and the surrounding area will have better access to local health care with the addition of new full-time primary care physicians in the region.
Working in partnership with the Tl’azt’en Nation, Nak’azdli Whut’en and the Fort St. James Primary Care Society, Northern Health will contract two additional physicians to support outreach services to surrounding First Nations communities. The physicians will start seeing patients under the new contracts on Nov. 1, 2018.
In addition to more physicians, new technologies such as telehealth services that bring the patient and provider together online and digital home-health monitoring are bringing health care even closer to home.
Read the full BC Gov News article "Improving access to family medicine in Fort St. James".