Pender Community Health Centre

Very little wait

This is the best place to go for Wound care and Medical care I have been going there for many years and Very Happy with the way I Have been Treated Doctors and Nurses are There For You, I Recommend It To Anyone In Need of Medical Help

Fantastic front end staff and equally fantastic doctors, nurses, aides, counselors and more. Ive been coming here for three plus years and have received thorough care from people who actually care.

got my vaccine here and everyone was so polite and kind it made my day:)

I've been a patient at the pender clinic for several years. I would not advise going to this or any other clinic of this kind. You're gonna get a rushed examination and you're going to be told as little as possible about your health and their findings. You will leave frustrated wondering why you weren't treated properly. I don't know if the doctor's just don't care, or if they are told to do as little as possible for patients. My guess is it's the latter.

First doctor gave me dangerously high blood pressure by prescribing me a medication that also ruined the diet she knew I was on. she insisted that I continue the medication and that the dizzy spells and high blood pressure were due to a possible tumor ! I went off the meds against her advice and my blood pressure went back down and the other issues which are all negative side effect to this drug and easily found on the internet, ceased. While discussing another reoccurring issue where I believed that a medication was somehow causing a blockage in my intestines causing extreme pain on day that I took it, she explained that the stomach med that she was prescribing should have taken care of the problem. When I reiterated that it was my intestines that I was concerned with, she laughed and said that she used the term 'stomach' for the whole area (motioning to her whole abdomen). This would explain dismissing my previous complaints. She didn't show up for my appointment on several occasions. The last time she faxed my prescription to a pharmacy when she got to work but nobody told me. So they gave me another person who can fill out prescriptions. What could possibly go wrong now?? I'll tell you. He apparently can't read faxes. My pharmacy (Shoppers Drug Mart) faxed him a prescription request 3 days before I ran out of medication. I ended up getting an emergency prescription for 2 weeks 7 days after I ran out (10 days after the request was faxed). I went to the clinic who looked the matter up and it seems that he sent the prescription to a London Drugs location who, again, does not have my phone number. Because there is another medication that shoppers Drug mart fills for me, I do not wish to go to 2 different stores. Repeated attempts by Shoppers Drug Mart to gain a prescription from him have failed.

All the staff there are unbelievably awesome. They treated me with respect and permitted me to take my time and describe what was going on in my life. The doctor whose name is Doctor Nouche, is one of the best doctors I've ever had in my life. She treated me as an equal. The counseling staff who have interacted with over the years is equally as good. When I went through a treatment process in the clinic the group therapy was superb. They provided snacks, coffee, juice and at the end Subway. Just a great job and kudos to everyone that works or volunteers at Pender Medical Clinic.