The soon-to-reopen Flin Flon Community Clinic will open its doors to the public early next month.
The clinic, located in the H.M. Davidson Building at 31 Church Street - directly across from Flin Flon General Hospital - will open for the first time under new ownership Feb. 8. The clinic will take in walk-in patients for three days to start, going from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 8-10. From then on, starting Feb. 13, the clinic will be open to booked patients, with walk-in service available starting Feb. 16.
To begin, the clinic will be open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and on Thursdays from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Thursdays will also include walk-in hours at the clinic, operating from 3:30 p.m.-7 p.m.
Appointments can be booked, starting Feb. 8, by calling (204) 687-7571 - appointments will be booked until the patient list is full, then callers will be added to a waitlist and can still come in for walk-in hours.
The clinic will be under the operation of Caitlyn Davidson Meyer, a Flin Flon-born and raised doctor who began plans to reopen the clinic as a family medical practice last year. News of Davidson Meyer’s plans were first publicly announced last year, with the doctor announcing her intentions with an article in The Reminder - renovations at the building took place through the second half of last year and early 2023.
Davidson Meyer will be the fourth member of her family to pursue medical practice, dating back through her father, grandfather and great-grandfather who all worked as pharmacists - the building the clinic is located in is named after her grandfather.
In September, Davidson Meyer said her plans are to run a full-scope family practice and to attract other medical professionals to the area to work at the clinic, working together in practice. Her goal is to make sure Flin Flonners who do not currently have a family doctor are still covered for medical care.
“My goal or plan is to open a clinic, establish a new practice and attract additional physicians to the area, hopefully to improve the proportion of people in Flin Flon and the surrounding area who have a family doctor,” said Davidson Meyer to The Reminder in September.
“I feel strongly connected to Flin Flon, I still have family present in Flin Flon. I’m seeing that gap in health care and particularly those individuals needing family physicians. It’s obviously a skill I’ve attained while leaving and a gap that I definitely think I can fill and help work on improving once I return.”
