Front desk staffer Maria Rempel.In 2022, about 750 people — a combination of paid staff and locums, volunteer dentists and hygienists, and students — provided more than 9,300 dental services to 3,500 patients. Since 2020, the clinic has done about $1 million in free work for low-income patients in dire need of treatment.
But project manager Leonard Laboucan, a former society board member, recently delivered bad news to Vides about the project: “Vancouver Coastal Health will fund the medical clinic, but not for the dental. … Unfortunately, we just don’t have the funding for Lex’s wish list.” But it is not just the startup money that Vides needs for the new clinic. He estimates he’ll also need an extra $1.4 million or so a year to operate the bigger space and care for additional patients.
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