Courtenay Walk-In Clinic To Close In The Spring

One of only two walk-in clinics in Courtenay is closing its doors.

In a post on its website, Washington Park Medical Centre in the Real Canadian Superstore on Ryan Road is permanently closing on April 28th.

“The ever-increasing burden of administrative work to review laboratory and radiology results, specialist consults, and other paperwork are not paid for, and many physicians work, uncompensated, into the evening in order to get this done, and to ensure proper care,” reads the letter.

“For these reasons, and many more, it is difficult to financially support our clinics, which leads to the closures we have all heard about in the news. In addition, several physicians are turning away from longitudinal family medicine in order to work in other clinical environments that allow less stress and better compensation.”

The post was signed by the physicians and staff of Washington Park Medical.

That leaves the Comox Valley Medical Clinic at the Walmart Super Centre as the only walk-in clinic left for the area’s 75,000 people.