New urgent and primary care centre opens April 15 in South Surrey<\/p>\n
Published 12:07 pm Friday, April 10, 2026<\/p>\n
A new urgent and primary care centre is set to open at Semiahmoo Shopping Centre in South Surrey.<\/p>\n
The new UPCC is set to open on Wednesday, April 15. It will provide care from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. seven days a week, including statutory holidays, accommodating about 57,000 patient visits a year, according to the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n
Minister of Health Josie Osborne was on hand in South Surrey on Friday morning (April 10) to make the official announcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really proud to see the work that has gone into opening this new facility,\u201d Osborne said during a tour of the new centre. \u201cThis is about bringing care closer to home for people in South Surrey and White Rock and also relieving the pressure on emergency departments.\u201d<\/p>\n
The centre is designed to provide care for those who have urgent, non-life-threatening conditions but do not require emergency department services \u2013 such as those with fever, burns, headaches or earaches, sprains, or minor cuts that may need stitches.<\/p>\n
A Ministry of Health press release notes the new centre will take a team-based approach to care, with physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses and social workers. It will open with about 23 full-time-equivalent care providers, including relief staff, along with non-clinical staff such as medical office assistants, health-unit aides and a clinic manager.<\/p>\n
Dr. Omar Shafi, medical director of the facility, said the centre will welcome its first patients on April 15, with medical imaging services starting at a later date, to be determined. Medical imaging services are planned to augment those currently available at Peace Arch Hospital, as well as serving urgent patients.<\/p>\n
The centre will deliver care mostly through in-person visits, with some virtual care as needed.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Health says the new centre will focus on \u201curgent, episodic primary care.\u201d Patients won\u2019t be attached to a primary care provider, but the centre will help people to sign up on the Health Connect Registry if they are looking for a primary-care provider.<\/p>\n
The Province has committed more than $5 million in annual operating costs and a one-time startup amount of more than $800,000 for the South Surrey UPCC. The total capital cost is approximately $8.1 million, funded jointly by the government and Fraser Health, the ministry press release says.<\/p>\n
Osborne said the province has a goal of opening 50 urgent and primary care facilities across B.C.; this will be the 48th in the province, and the fourth in Surrey.<\/p>\n
The other local centres are in Whalley (Unit G2-9639 137A St.), Newton (6830 King George Blvd.) and Cloverdale (5711 176A St.).<\/p>\n
Since its opening in 2018, the Whalley centre has seen more than 200,000 patient visits and attached more than 1,500 patients to a primary-care provider. The Newton centre, which opened in 2020, has seen more than 100,000 patient visits and attached more than 1,300 patients to a primary care provider.<\/p>\n
The Cloverdale centre opened earlier this year, with an official opening event on Jan. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
Patients can access the new South Surrey UPCC (1711 152 St.) from the exterior of the mall, adjacent to White Spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New urgent and primary care centre opens April 15 in South Surrey Published 12:07 pm Friday, April 10,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-595484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}