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Mostly private, clinic accepting up to 500 patients.

ElevationMD.ca – Victoria (Private Clinic, mostly non-MSP)
303-2537 Beacon Avenue , Victoria, BC
Clinic Website

Contact Information & Map

This is a fairly new, mostly non-MSP (private) clinic located in the Victoria area that is accepting up to 500 patients. They also accept patients from outside the Victoria area.

From the clinic:

My name is Scott Monette BSc, I founded ElevationMD longevity medical clinic in Sidney BC with Dr. Daniel Leach MD and other team members from my other existing medical clinics. After seeing my mother, father, stepmother, both grandfathers and both of my wife’s parents suffer from cancer, I felt I had the moral obligation to use my business skills and healthcare knowledge to help our community. Why have we been waiting until cancer gets to stage three or four before we detect it? Surely there must be ways to screen and detect cancer sooner. When I requested extra screening from my own family physician I was told, “there just aren’t enough resources in the system to screen everyone”. To solve the problem, we created ElevationMD medical clinic as a way for patients to fund their own cancer and disease screening with our collection of innovative health tools, all while caring for our patients’ overall health. 

Our tools include the new FDA-recognized blood test that tests up to 50 different types of cancer at the earliest stages. We also use DNA sequencing technology and A.I. tools to reduce your risk. We have plans that fit all budgets starting at $199 per month, with many insurance plans covering our services.

Our plans are packed with value and include: a medical home led by physicians that are focused on prevention and longevity, a personal health navigator, a patient portal to access your medical reports, a thorough annual physical, a dedicated team of health professionals including doctors, a nurse, dietitian, and pharmacist working like medical militia to keep you in optimal health.

Choose from one of our plans on our pricing page found here: ElevationMD Pricing, we even have a hybrid virtual plan for our non-local patients. You may be able to claim all or a portion of our fees if you have extended health insurance that includes a health savings account.

Learn more or become a patient by booking your free meet-and-greet appointment:

online at the following link: ElevationMD appointment booking

call 250.800.2850

email us at admin@elevationmd.ca

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Find a Doctor BC 2024 Year in Review

Welcome to the 2024 year in review from Find a Doctor BC.

We have put together statistics about what happened in 2024 with regard to family practitioners accepting new patients in BC.

Areas covered.

Since May 2022 we have covered the entire province. We monitor about 3,500 family practitioners in 855 clinics located in 139 towns and cities.

Results

From our data throughout the province, at end of 2024, there were 47 clinics who were accepting new patients, 13 who were accepting new patients in a limited way, 53 had a wait list and 721 were not accepting new patients and had no wait list.

Typically, there is only one family practitioner at a time in a clinic accepting new patients. This implies about 1 in 60 family practitioners were accepting new patients at the end of year.

During 2024, we detected 305 “good news” events, either a clinic starting to accept new patients or starting an active waitlist.

End of 2024 results broken down by region

Region Total # of clinics in region Accepting New Patients Limited Accepting Active Waitlist Walkin only Not accepting Were accepting at some point last year
Abbotsford Chilliwack 63 1 1 0 2 59 11
Burnaby Coquitlam 77 2 0 3 1 71 12
Cariboo North 81 8 2 6 2 63 10
Kootenay 36 3 0 2 1 30 3
Langley Maple Ridge 33 4 1 4 0 24 7
Mid Island 72 2 1 2 2 65 5
North Island 20 6 0 1 2 11 8
North Shore 52 7 2 9 2 32 22
Richmond Delta 53 2 1 5 1 44 11
South Island 68 2 0 1 3 62 3
Sunshine Coast 11 0 0 1 0 10 1
Surrey White Rock 95 1 1 7 4 82 14
Thompson Okanagan 100 8 1 5 1 85 16
Vancouver City 94 1 3 7 0 83 15
               
Total for Province 855 47 13 53 21 721 138
Percent   5% 2% 6% 2% 84% 16%

Note we only find clinics that are officially accepting new patients. If a doctor accepts a new patient via family and friends, we generally don’t hear about it. Our surveys show that about 1 in 7 patients find doctors through family and friends.

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Website Usage

Patients looking for care used the Findadoctorbc.ca website a lot last year, with over 311,000 users accessing 3.7 million pageviews over the year. We received over 4,500 call reports from folks telling us what they learned while speaking with clinics. Having concise, uniform clinic listings and up-to-date accepting status available has helped avoid millions of extra phone calls to clinics asking whether they are accepting new patients.

Notification Service

In addition to the website, we offer a notification service that will send you an email when a clinic in your region starts accepting new patients. From exit survey data (given to people who are leaving the service), of those who filled out the survey, 80% had found a family doctor or nurse practitioner. We also asked how these people actually found doctors. 60% had found the practitioner through the notification service while 13% had found one through family and friends and 27% by other means. Only 5% found a doctor through a Regional Wait list (such as the Health Connect Registry or Division of Family Practice)

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A Final Word

While things are looking up for people finding family practitioners in some areas of the province, the availability varies a lot by geography. For example North Vancouver, with a population of 146 thousand, currently has seven clinics accepting new patients, while Victoria, with a population of 434 thousand, has one, and it is a non-MSP, private clinic. Vancouver Island in general is the hardest place to find a family practitioner in the province.

Another trend is more Nurse Practitioners being available, which is great. Our latest exit surveys show about 10% of people are choosing this option for care.

Finally, in 2023, the BC government introduced a province wide wait list called the Health Connect Registry. We recommend everyone who needs a family practitioner in BC sign up for the service, however we are continuing our work to help people find care because many clinics are still accepting patients directly. As noted above, of people surveyed who have found a family practitioner, only 5% found them through the government waitlist.

Sincerely

The Find a Doctor BC team, Don and Ruth

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Find a Doctor BC 2022 Year in Review

Welcome to the second year in review from Find a Doctor BC.

We have put together statistics about what happened in 2022 with regard to family practitioners accepting new patients in BC.

Areas covered.

By May 2022 we had the entire province covered after adding all of Northern BC early in the year. We now monitor about 3,700 family practitioners in 798 clinics located in 138 towns and cities.

Results

From our data throughout the province, at end of 2022, there were 43 clinics who were accepting new patients, 22 who were accepting new patients in a limited way, 48 had a wait list and 685 were not accepting new patients and had no wait list.

Typically, there is only one family practitioner at a time in a clinic accepting new patients. This implies about 1 in 55 family practitioners were accepting new patients at the end of year.

During 2022 we detected a total 218 family practitioners accepting new patients at some point during the year.

At the end of 2022,

• 46 towns/cities had at least one clinic accepting new patients
• 38 towns/cities had no clinics accepting at the end of the year but had at least one clinic accepting new patients at some point in 2022
• 54 towns/cities did not have a single clinic accepting new patients during 2022.

Following is a list of BC towns and cities that have had at least one clinic…

Accepting new patients at the end of 2022Not accepting now, but were at some point in 2022Never accepting at anytime in 2022
AbbotsfordBeaverdell100 Mile House
AgassizCobble HillAldergrove
Alert BayComoxArmstrong
Bella BellaCoquitlamAshcroft
BurnabyCourtenayBrentwood Bay
Burns LakeDeltaBurnaby
ChetwyndEnderbyCampbell River
ChilliwackGrand ForksCastlegar
ClearwaterHazeltonChase
Dawson CreekHopeChemainus
Denman IslandHoustonCranbrook
DuncanInvermereCrawford Bay
Fort NelsonKasloCreston
Fort St JamesLogan LakeElkford
Fraser LakeMaple RidgeFernie
Gitlax?t’aamiksMissionFort McMurray
Gold RiverNew WestminsterFruitvale
Hornby IslandOsoyoosGabriola
Hudson’s HopeParksvilleGaliano
KamloopsPitt MeadowsGibsons
LangleyPort AlberniGreenwood
LillooetPort CoquitlamKelowna
LumbyPort MoodyKeremeos
MackenziePowell RiverKimberley
MassetPrince GeorgeKitimat
North VancouverQualicum BeachLadysmith
PembertonRevelstokeLake Country
PentictonRichmondLake Cowichan
Port AliceSalmon ArmLantzville
Port HardySecheltMadeira Park
Port McNeillSookeMayne Island
Queen CharlotteSquamishMerritt
QuesnelVanderhoofMill Bay
RichmondVernonMoberly Lake
RosslandWest KelownaNakusp
SalmoWilliams LakeNanaimo
StewartNelson
SurreyNew Denver
TofinoOkanagan Falls
Tumbler RidgeOliver
UclueletPender Island
ValemountPenticton
VancouverPrince Rupert
VictoriaPrinceton
West VancouverQuathiaski Cove
White RockSaanichton
Salt Spring Island
Shawnigan Lake
Sidney
Smithers
Sparwood
Summerland
Sun Peaks
Terrace
Trail
Westbank

Note we only find clinics that are officially accepting new patients. If a doctor accepts a new patient via family and friends, we generally don’t hear about it. Our surveys show that about 1 in 7 patients find doctors through family and friends.

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Website Usage

Patients looking for care used the Findadoctorbc.ca website a lot last year, with over 340,000 unique users accessing 2.2 million pageviews over the year. Having concise clinic listings and up-to-date accepting status available has helped avoid millions of extra phone calls to clinics asking whether they are accepting new patients.

Notification Service

In addition to the website, we offer a notification service that will send you an email when a clinic in your region starts accepting new patients. From exit survey data (given to people who are leaving the service), of those who filled out the survey, 71% had found a family doctor or nurse practitioner. Of those, 87% found a medical doctor, 10% a nurse practitioner and 2% a team practice. We also asked how these people actually found doctors. 55% had found the practitioner through the notification service while 14% had found one through family and friends and 31% by other means.

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A Final Word

It appears the BC Government’s recent actions are improving the situation. We have been able to report more family practitioners accepting new patients during the first month of 2023 as compared to the average month of 2022 and exit surveys in January 2023 showed 83% of those leaving the service had found a doctor.

Regards

Don and Ruth

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Virtual Walk-in clinic for BC residents

Virtual walk-in appointments available at:

Walk In (a virtual clinic)
, , BC
Clinic Website

Contact

This is a virtual walk-in clinic. Appointments are made through their website.

According to their website using Walk In : “… is free for certain insured services if you are covered under the Medical Services Plan (MSP) in British Columbia. This includes visits with licensed physicians. Other services, such as doctor’s notes are not covered under MSP.”