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Home Health Dietitian services range from providing nutrition care to clients recently discharged from hospitals to nutrition counselling for various conditions using individualized diets devised and monitored by a registered dietitian (medical nutrition therapy).

How to access

  • Check eligibility

    Home Health Dietitians work with clients who are unable to leave their homes. The community health team may refer clients to the ambulatory Home Heal Dietitian if they can and are willing to be seen at the community health centre.

    All nutrition services are free of charge.

  • Get a referral

    ​If you are an existing client of a community health team, please speak to your Vancouver Coastal health contact and ask to be referred to a Home Health Dietitian.

    External referrals can be made through your primary care provider or by calling Central Intake at (604) 263-7377.

Hours of operation

Currently closed
  • Monday:   9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  • Tuesday:   9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday:   9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  • Thursday:   9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
  • Friday:   9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
  • Saturday:   Closed
  • Sunday:   Closed

Thursdays
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. is open to all clients
4:30 to 8 p.m. is open to women, gender diverse/femme presenting only

Pender CHC is closed on statutory holidays.

Parking & Transportation

Street parking is available

Pender Community Health Centre

Pender Community Health Centre (CHC) serves the Downtown Eastside, Gastown, and Strathcona communities. ​We provide a range of health care and support services to people who have acute, chronic, palliative or rehabilitative health care needs. Pender CHC provides a range of health care and support services to people who have acute, chronic, palliative or rehabilitative health care needs. Clients must reside in the downtown eastside, have no other primary care provider (are not attached to another family physician elsewhere), and experience barriers accessing services elsewhere.

Home Health Dietitians

Home Health Dietitians provide clinical nutrition services to adults 19 years or older in the home or at a community health centre as ambulatory nutrition care.