Skidegate Health Centre

Skidegate, BC

This healthcare project is a two-storey wood-framed building inspired by Haida longhouses. The facility offers primary-care clinics, home support, maternal and child health, dietitian services, a dental clinic, mental health counselling, and visits by specialists such as optometrists, audiologists, and naturopaths. Skidegate Health and Wellness Centre is a service-oriented centre to transform health care deliveries on Haida Gwaii and improve health outcomes on the island.  The approximately 870 m2 centre is located above the current Skidegate Health Centre on Second Avenue. The project was led by the band council in concert with the XaaydaGa Dlaang Society, which now runs the centre. This centre will house the Nation's health programs and services including Home and Community Care; Mental Health; Dietician services; Maternal Child Health; Alternative Medicine & Traditional Healing; and Life Skills programming.