Gabriola Island Health Centre Archives

Gabriola Islanders Make a Healthy Choice!

February 1, 2019February 8, 2019 Randy Morse

The community of Gabriola Island was selected for the Rural Coordination Centre of BC’s 2018 BC Rural Community Award at the BC Rural Health Conference in Nanaimo, BC, on May 12, 2018. The community was honoured for its innovation and resiliency in recovering from a healthcare crisis in 2006, when one of the island’s Continue reading

Gabriola Island DIY Health Centre

February 1, 2019March 3, 2019 Randy Morse

Gabriola Island (pop. 4,000) is a remote community just off of Nanaimo, British Columbia. After years of patch-work health care, community members determined the need for reliable medical care that wouldn’t require helicopters or ferries to transport patients off the island to doctors situated in larger metropolitan centres. They banded together to build a state-of-the-art Continue reading