Kootenay Boundary Primary Care Network
Creating a seamless primary health care experience for residents of Kootenay Boundary.
Kootenay Boundary Primary Care Network is grateful to operate on the traditional and unceded territory of the Ktunaxa (Kutenai), the Kinbasket and Secwepemc (Shuswap), Syilx (Okanagan), and Sinixt (Lakes) Peoples.
Last updated: October 1, 2024
Find information and news about primary care health services for people living in the Kootenay Boundary region.
On this page
- Overview
- Find a primary care provider
- Access primary care services in your community
- What's happening in your community
Overview
A Primary Care Network (PCN) is a community-based network of health care professionals and clinics who plan and deliver the health care needs of a community.
Kootenay Boundary PCN brings together family doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, allied health providers, Interior Health Authority, patients and indigenous partners to support the primary healthcare needs of the community. This includes people living in and around:
- Castlegar
- Christina Lake
- Crawford Bay
- Fruitvale
- Grand Forks
- Greenwood
- Kaslo
- Midway
- Naksup
- Nelson
- New Denver
- Rock Creek
- Rossland
- Salmo
- Trail
Find a family doctor or nurse practitioner
If you need a primary care provider, register on the Health Connect Registry to get matched with a family doctor or nurse practitioner in your community.
Kootenay Boundary Division of Family Practice is actively recruiting doctors and nurse practitioners to practice primary care in the region. They use the Health Connect Registry as the primary waitlist for residents seeking a primary care provider. When a nurse practitioner or family doctor has capacity, clinics will accept new patients from the Health Connect Registry. We ask you to please be patient, as it may take some time to be connected with a doctor or nurse practitioner.
While you are waiting to be connected with a family doctor or nurse practitioner, please use the search function below to find primary care health services and support.
For Kootenay Boundary patients without a family practitioner, links to additional resources to support your health care needs can also be accessed through the Kootenay Boundary Division of Family Practice website.
For residents of Kootenay Boundary who don’t currently have a primary care provider, KB Screen provides virtual age-related routine screening for colon, breast, cervical and lung cancer.
Additional Aboriginal health resources
The Circle of Indigenous Nations Society (COINS) supports Indigenous individuals and families throughout the Kootenay Boundary region. A COINS Aboriginal Patient Navigator (APN) is present in hospital settings throughout the West Kootenay and Boundary area to advocate and support a holistic healing journey for Aboriginal people. The Aboriginal Health Coordinator is part of the interdisciplinary care network and is a resource for both health care providers and Aboriginal patients to ensure care is culturally safe, respectful, and effective.
Visit COINS to learn more.
Access primary care health services
Search for primary care health services and support in your community.
You can also search our list of all health services available throughout B.C., which includes services related to primary care, emergency care, mental health and substance use, home care, public health units, pharmacies, labs and more.
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Safeway Food and Drug
Provides pharmacy services for individuals to obtain, understand, and manage their prescriptions. Hours of operation may be subject to change, please call ahead to confirm.
1599 Second Avenue, Trail, BC V1R 1M3
Pharmacy
Safeway Food and Drug
Provides pharmacy services for individuals to obtain, understand, and manage their prescriptions. Hours of operation may be subject to change, please call ahead to confirm.
211 Anderson Street, Nelson, BC V1L 3X8
Pharmacy
Salmo Valley Pharmacy
Provides pharmacy services for individuals to obtain, understand and manage their prescriptions. Hours of operation may be subject to change; call ahead to confirm.
Also provides naloxone kits to people who use opioids or are likely to witn...
107 4th Street, Salmo, BC V0G 1Z0
Pharmacy
Save-On-Foods
Provides pharmacy services for individuals to obtain, understand and manage their prescriptions. Hours of operation may be subject to change; call ahead to confirm.
Also provides naloxone kits to people who use opioids or are likely to witn...
441 Central Avenue, Grand Forks, BC V0H 1H0
Pharmacy
Shoppers Drug Mart
Provides pharmacy services for individuals to obtain, understand and manage their prescriptions. Treatment for opioid use disorder is available, as well as training in overdose recognition and response, and free naloxone kits to people who are eli...
1983 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, BC V1N 2W8
Pharmacy
Shoppers Drug Mart
Provides pharmacy services for individuals to obtain, understand and manage their prescriptions. Treatment for opioid use disorder is available, as well as training in overdose recognition and response, and free naloxone kits to people who are eli...
1305 Cedar Avenue, Trail, BC V1R 4C3
Pharmacy
Shoppers Drug Mart
Provides late night pharmacy services for individuals to obtain, understand and manage their prescriptions. Hours of operation may be subject to change; call ahead to confirm.
Also provides naloxone kits to people who use opioids or are lik...
1965 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, BC V1N 2W8
Pharmacy
Shoppers Drug Mart
Provides late night pharmacy services for individuals to obtain, understand and manage their prescriptions. Hours of operation may be subject to change; call ahead to confirm.
Also provides naloxone kits to people who use opioids or are lik...
1116 Lakeside Drive, Nelson, BC V1L 5Z3
Pharmacy
Trail Apothecary PharmaChoice
Provides pharmacy services for individuals to obtain, understand and manage their prescriptions. Hours of operation may be subject to change; call ahead to confirm.
1101 Dewdney Avenue, Trail, BC V1R 4T1
Pharmacy
Walmart Canada
Provides pharmacy services for individuals to obtain, understand and manage their prescriptions. Hours of operation may be subject to change, please call ahead to confirm.
1601 Marcolin Drive, Trail, BC V1R 4Y1
Pharmacy
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