What's New

The Centre is celebrating PRIDE in line with Elgin County's August 2nd - August 11th PRIDE week.  Join us in support of the 2SLGBTQ Community on August 6th 11 a.m. - 12 noon, for flag raising, PRIDE button making, glitter tattoos, sidewalk art, rainbow snacks, and a PRIDE mural and PRIDE banner contest!

Learn more about Elgin County Pride at: Elgin County Pride

On Wednesday, local MPP Rob Flack met with the team at the West Elgin Community Health Centre to hear more about the $130,000 Capital grant from the provincial government's Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) that was used to renovate the teaching kitchen.  This project improved the accessibility and functionality of the teaching kitchen for community members for years to come.  Below is the media release.

PDF Version of this Media Release:  Ontario Trillium Grant Gives Community Teaching Kitchen a New Look

Rain or shine the party continues!  We will just bring the festivities inside!

The Centre continues to "Tell Our Story" through a series called "Humans of WECHC".  The first few of many staff introductions are included today.  Meet Kristie, Rick, and Stephanie.

Dynacare Lab Services will be closing at 2:00 p.m. July 11th.  Please see below for alternate lab locations:

Grand opening event at the Centre on Thursday, July 25th 11:00 a.m.  Learn about our newly funded program providing wellness care to children ages 0-5 who do not have a primary care provider.

Close the Wage Gap is a campaign to draw attention to the growing wage gap between community health and other health sectors in Ontario.

The community health sector enables Ontarians to receive the right care in the right place, providing preventative care and reducing the strain on overburdened emergency departments and hospital services. Unfortunately, the West Elgin Community Health Centre has been impacted by the lack of action to close this wage gap.

Significantly different wages between health sectors in Ontario burdens your Community Health Centre's ability to attract and retain highly skilled, compassionate and amazing staff not only in primary health (nurse practitioners and nurses) but our invaluable mental health services, diabetes education, dietitians, health promotion and systems navigation, chiropody, child and youth programming, health services for seniors, assisted living, and other outstanding community support programs.  #ForUsForYou

It is with a heavy heart we confirm the passing of Shawn Rumble, Therapist. As his friend and colleague, we ask for some time for the Centre to grieve and to arrange for continued services for Shawn's clients.  Please know that our clients are very important to us and a representative from the Centre will be in touch with Shawn's clients as soon as we can.  Shawn will be greatly missed.

As of June 1st Rick van der Heide officially takes on his new role as Primary Health Services Director.  This senior leadership position was previously held by now retired, Kate Dymock. With moving into a senior leadership role at the Centre and after nearly 20 years as our Chiropodist, Rick steps away from Chiropody at WECHC to begin this new chapter in his career.  Please help us congratulate Rick!  And, unfortunately, in the interim, chiropody services will not be accepting clients while the Centre explores service and recruiting options.

The Centre will be closed all day on Wednesday, June 12, 2024 for a staff event.