Wasaga Seaside welcomes its new household physician with open arms and expanded clinic providers.
The city’s latest household doctor, Dr. Jacob Jeffrey McGavin, started by taking on an present household drugs observe in Wasaga Seaside Thursday. It is going to be certain that over 750 residents proceed to have entry to a household physician.
McGavin expects so as to add 150 sufferers to his roster within the coming months.
“I really feel nice about establishing roots and offering care in a spot that may be very related and proactive. The city of Wasaga Seaside has been supportive of my transfer and it has been a pleasure to cope with employees at city corridor,” McGavin mentioned.
Via a lately topped-up recruitment technique with the province funding its South Georgian Bay Ontario Well being Workforce (SGBOHT) and Georgian Bay Household Well being Workforce (GBFHT), Wasaga will develop providers on the city’s 160 Beck Road medical centre and after-hours clinic.
That is the results of the council’s proactive recruitment efforts, together with a lately topped-up $100,000 municipal household doctor incentive program.
“I’m impressed with the actions the municipality is taking, working with different companions in healthcare, together with the SGBOHT and GBFHT, to develop providers by the Wasaga Seaside Medical Clinic,” mentioned McGavin. “Having a state-of-the-art medical centre and after-hours clinic in a small city is as vital to me, as a brand new household doctor, as it’s to my present and future sufferers and residents in Wasaga Seaside.
“It signifies that sufferers have extra choices to hunt the care they want, after they want it and obtain higher well being outcomes. I’m trying ahead to turning into part of the community of household physicians and healthcare companions which are dedicated to caring for and serving the wants of households in Wasaga Seaside,” he mentioned.
Mayor Brian Smith mentioned he’s thrilled to see a brand new physician in Wasaga Seaside.
“That is additional proof that our plan is working. Topping up the City’s $100,000 household doctor incentive program to be extra in-line with neighboring communities and re-opening the Wasaga Seaside Medical Centre and After Hours Clinic was a precedence for this Council, and we obtained it carried out,” mentioned Smith.
There isn’t a waitlist to affix McGavin’s affected person roster. Residents who don’t at the moment have a household physician are inspired to hunt non-urgent care by the Wasaga Seaside Medical Clinic at the moment. To make sure native residents who’re most in want of a household doctor get served first, McGavin can be working with the clinic on to recruit new sufferers as quickly as he is able to start rising his observe.
