UBC Reports Digest for 99-09-30

News

Vancouver’s Downtown South Community Health Centre, an interdisciplinary resource
serving 3,000 clients a year and a training site for residents and undergraduates,
has been awarded the 1999 John F. McCreary Interdisciplinary Team Prize.

The centre, opened in 1995, has 25 professionals on staff, including psychiatric
nurses, alcohol and drug counsellors and physicians who treat clients with health
issues such as addictions, poverty, mental illness and HIV/AIDS.

The award is given annually by UBC’s Office of the Co-ordinator of Health
Sciences for the best example of a B.C. health-care initiative that demonstrates
innovative co-operation between three or more health-care disciplines.