Opportunity Awaits.
Improving resident access to family physicians within Whitby as the community continues to grow – that’s the goal of a new pilot program that will see the Town of Whitby and Oshawa Clinic Group partner together to recruit and retain ten new family doctors to the West Whitby Health Centre, opening in summer 2024.
The new Family Physician Recruitment Incentive Partnership Pilot Program was approved by Town Council at a Special Council Meeting held on July 26 (2023). Through the program, up to 10 family physicians will be provided with an incentive of $50,000 each over a five-year term, funding for which will be equally shared between the Town and the Oshawa Clinic Group. Each physician will have an anticipated 1,000 patients by the third year, to be maintained over the remainder of the five years.
With a regional population of 738,710, it is estimated that there are 230,000 Durham residents without a family doctor in Durham. The four-storey, 154,000 square-foot West Whitby Health Centre is being built at the southwest corner of Des Newman Boulevard and Bonacord Avenue in West Whitby – an area anticipated to be one of Durham Region’s fastest areas of growth over the next decade. Through the West Whitby Health Centre, residents will have access to a wide range of non-acute healthcare services, including family physicians, specialists, cardiology, physiotherapy, fertility, diagnostic imaging, laboratory, audiology and psychology. The clinic will also feature a walk-in urgent care centre.
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Contact us to learn more about physician opportunities in Whitby.
doctors@oshawaclinic.ca
(905) 721-3501
117 King St E
Oshawa, ON L1H 1B9