AVI Nanaimo (OAT Clinic)
Addictions / Substance Use, Condition Specific Support, Public Health, and Sexual Health
Provided by AVI Health and Community Services
Provides opioid agonist treatment and related services and also provides primary care for HIV
At no fee for patients, AVI Health Centre provides:
- Opiate Replacement Treatment with Methadone and Suboxone.
- Take-home Naloxone Training
- Harm reduction education and supplies
- HIV Primary Care and HIV POC testing
- STI testing and treatment
- Positive Wellness Program
- Men’s Wellness Program and Testing Nights
- AVI Health Centre Outreach Team
- Education Program
- Support counselling, nutritional and housing support and care planning and intensive case management for people living with HIV and or hepatitis C.
250-754-9111
Toll Free: INFOLINE 1-800-665-2437
Public email: health.centre@avi.org
Website: http://avi.org/our-services/nanaimo
AVI Health Centre - #102, 55 Victoria Road, Snuneymuxw Territory, Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 5N9
Hours of Operation are Monday - Thursday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wheelchair accessible.
Cost: No cost
Referral options:
- Self-referral
- Physician or nurse practitioner referral
- Health professional referral
Associated Programs/Services
Also offered by AVI Health and Community Services:
- HIV/AIDS and Hep C Care and Harm Reduction Services - AVI - Comox Valley
- Harm Reduction Services - Campbell River
- Community-Led Crisis Response Team (CLCR)
Availability
Service area: Nanaimo + show cities
Service Types Provided
Addictions / Substance Use
- Addiction Counselling: Addiction Counselling (Adult) and Addiction Counselling - First Nations
- Concurrent Disorders
- Outreach Services
- Pregnancy and Addiction
- Harm Reduction: Counselling Support for Harm Reduction, Harm Reduction in Pregnancy, Naloxone, and Safer Sex Supplies
- Opioid Treatment (OAT): Methadone, Suboxone Induction, and Suboxone Maintenance
- Rapid / Urgent Access: Rapid / Urgent Access - Adult
Condition Specific Support
- Heptatitis: Hep C
- HIV / AIDS
Public Health
- Community Health Centre (CHC)
- Outreach Services
- Transcare
- Heptatitis: Navigation Support, Hepatitis Treatment, and Hep C
- HIV / AIDS: Navigation Support and HIV Testing
- Pregnancy and Postpartum Services: Pregnancy and Addiction
- Sexually Transmitted Infections (STD, STI): Safer Sex Supplies and STI Testing
Sexual Health
Ways to Access
- Provided 1:1 in-person
- Provided at a single location
- Provided by phone
- Provided by text or chat
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