Home and Community Care, sometimes called Home Health or Community Health clinics, exist in each health authority around BC and are an access point for nursing and allied healthcare at home and in the community for wounds, home support, CSIL, and other forms of healthcare outside the hospital. Here are BC’s Home and Community Care referral contacts.
Not sure what health authority you live in? Contact SCI BC’s InfoLine at 1 800 689-2477 or call 811 to get help finding the contact info for your home healthcare intake phone number. You can also Google your community name + health authority to find out which health authority you should call from the list below.
Fraser Health:
Community Health Referral line (self referrals welcome): 1 855 412-2121
Island Health:
Victoria Community Access Centre (South Island):
All communities south of Mill Bay, including Greater Victoria, the Southern Gulf Islands and west to Port Renfrew.
250 388-2273 or 1 888 533-2273
Nanaimo Community Access Centre (Central Island):
All communities from Mill Bay to Deep Bay, including Gabriola Island, and from Parksville on the east coast to beyond Tofino/Ucluelet on the west coast.
250 739-5749 or 1 877 734-4101
North Island Central Intake (North Island):
All communities north of Deep Bay including the Mt. Waddington Regional District and the mainland area adjacent to it.
250 331-8570 or 1 866 928-4988
Interior health
Ask an Interior Health physician (family doctor, walk-in clinic or ER physician) for a referral to your local Community Care Clinic or find your closest clinic here.
Northern Health:
Call your local Home and Community Care Clinic or ask your physician to refer you.
Vancouver Coastal Health
Contact your local Home and Community Care access line to refer yourself, or ask your physician to refer you.
Home and Community Care access lines
- North Shore (North Vancouver, West Vancouver): 604 986-7111
- Richmond: 604 675-3644
- Vancouver: 604 263-7377
- Bella Bella:,(250 957-2314
- Bella Coola: 250 799-5311
- Powell River: 604 485-3310
- Sea to Sky (Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton): 604 892-2293
- Sunshine Coast (Gibsons, Sechelt): 604 741-0726
