Doctors & Clinics
Salmon Arm Health Centre
About Salmon Arm Health Centre
Community health work covers a wider field than most people expect, taking in public health nursing, home and community care, mental health and substance use support, therapy services and a range of booked clinics that run on their own schedule rather than a walk in basis. Salmon Arm Health Centre works from 851 16 Street Northeast, on the same northeast side of the city as the hospital grounds, a few minutes up from the blocks that sit closest to the bay.
Because programs of this kind are organized service by service, the useful thing to sort out before coming in is which door your appointment belongs to. Some services take a referral from a family physician or nurse practitioner, some accept a self referral, and some run on intake days that fill quickly. It helps to have your personal health number ready, to know whether the visit was booked in person or by phone, and to say up front if you need an interpreter or an accessible entrance. Confirming the department, not just the street address, saves the most time.
Salmon Arm functions as the service centre for a wide stretch of the Shuswap, so a fair share of the people arriving here have driven in from Canoe, from the acreages of South Canoe, or from further out along the lake and the Trans-Canada corridor. Winter weather on those routes is worth building into your timing, and an early appointment in January is a different proposition than the same one in June. The centre can be reached at 250-833-4100, and Interior Health keeps current service information for this location at interiorhealth.ca.
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In the Downtown Salmon Arm neighbourhood of Salmon Arm.
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