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Oceanside Healthcare

Community-led, non-profit, team-based primary care.

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Our Purpose

Over 8,000 people in the Oceanside area don’t have a family doctor or nurse practitioner. Flowerstone Health Society exists to help close that gap.

We’re a community-based non-profit that supports primary care in Qualicum Beach and the surrounding region. We work alongside our partners in the health sector, in the community, and across our donor network to keep quality, team-based primary care within reach of the people who live here.

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Five years in, and growing.

Flowerstone Health Society supported the opening of the Flowerstone Family Health Clinic in Qualicum Beach in January 2022. It’s a Nurse Practitioner-led clinic and an Oceanside Primary Care Network clinic, today serving over 4,700 patients across our community.

The clinical team brings together nurse practitioners, a registered nurse, a pharmacist, a social worker, a respiratory therapist, and a group of medical office assistants who keep the whole thing running. We also host students completing their practicums, helping train the next generation of nurse practitioners. People feel known here. That’s the point.

The clinic continues to connect new patients through the Health Connect Registry every month, and the Society is actively exploring how to responsibly expand access to primary care, including the potential for additional clinic sites.

Why community support matters

Most medical clinics are owned by the physicians who run them. Flowerstone is different. We’re led by a volunteer board of community members and clinicians, and we respond to what our community needs.

Patients tell us this new model of care is working, and we want more people to experience it. Island Health funds the clinic’s daily operations. Community support enables us to grow, opening new clinics across the region.

Every donation, every membership, every partnership strengthens that voice.

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