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Oak Tree Clinic

The Oak Tree Clinic at BC Women's is a leader in providing specialized clinical care to women, children and their families living with HIV, Reproductive Infectious Disease, and Congenital Infectious Disease.
About Us

At the Oak Tree Clinic, we provide specialized, interprofessional care for women and families with HIV/AIDs, reproductive infectious disease, and congenital infectious disease.


 

Our Mission:

  • Providing optimal care to any woman, child, youth, partner or family member living with HIV/AIDs, reproductive infectious disease, and congenital infectious disease in BC
  • Providing care that is sensitive to all individuals irrespective of racial/ethnic origin, social/economic status, religious affiliation, lifestyle or sexual orientation.
  • Improving access to medical care, psychosocial support and non-directive counselling for all individuals with HIV/AIDs, reproductive infectious disease, or congenital infectious disease 
  • Encouraging people, their families and/or caregivers to maximize their involvement in their health care needs.
  • Promoting physical, mental, social and economic well-being of people infected with HIV/AIDs, reproductive infectious disease, and congenital infectious disease 
  • Educating people , their families and caregivers, health care and allied professionals and the public regarding HIV/AIDs, reproductive infectious disease, and congenital infectious disease 
  • Promoting prevention strategies for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in all people.
  • Honoring and supporting the patients' right to choose all or some aspects of the services and treatments offered.
  • Advocating for all people with HIV/AIDs, reproductive infectious disease, and congenital infectious disease 
  • Providing leadership to combat discrimination shown to all people, in the healthcare system, media and society.
  • Responding to the needs of people infected with HIV by creating an advisory board, consisting of people working in the community, people from HIV/AIDS support and advocacy groups, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Our Team:

  • Adult Infectious Disease Specialist Physicians
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist Physicians
  • Obstetrics/Gynecology Physicians with HIV expertise
  • Psychiatrists
  • Addictions Counsellor
  • Pharmacists
  • Social Worker
  • Clinic Nurse
  • Nurse Clinician
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Dietitian
  • Outreach Social Worker
  • Outreach Nurse
  • Researchers
  • Clinic Aide
  • Lab Technician
  • Booking Clerks
  • Health Records Technician
  • Unit Clerk

On our busier clinic days, BC Women's Hospital volunteers may come to clinic to help with child-minding.


Our Partnerships & Affiliations:

University of British Columbia

The Oak Tree Clinic is affiliated with the University of British Columbia (UBC) as a clinical teaching site for both undergraduate and graduate programs. Students from the Faculties of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Nutrition and Social Work are offered clinical rotations with the various specialists in the clinic. The clinic offers students a unique experience using multidisciplinary team approach to HIV/AIDS care.

BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul's Hospital

The clinic is associated with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul's Hospital. All the HIV medications (aside from some medications not yet licensed in Canada but used in research studies) are supplied through the Centre for Excellence Drug Program. Drs. Burdge, Forbes and Money all sit on the Centre for Excellence Therapeutic Guideline Committee, and have developed the Provincial Guidelines for the Care of Women, Pregnant Women, and Children.

Our Community Partners

The Oak Tree Clinic has always had an active community based advisory committee. This committee was instrumental in obtaining funding for the program in 1994, and in helping to shape our philosophy and approach. We continue to have close working relationships with the Positive Women's Network, Drug and Alcohol Meeting Support for Women, Sheway, Downtown Community Health Clinic, Vancouver Native Health Society, Healing Our Spirit, the STD outreach nurses, and variety of other agencies.

Funding Partners

The clinic welcomes donations for additional support. You can receive more information about the hospital foundations and the opportunity for contributing to the Oak Tree Clinic Program at BC Women's Health Foundation.


 


 

Our Health Care Team includes

  • Adult Infectious Disease Specialist Physicians
  • Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist Physicians
  • Obstetrics/Gynecology Physicians with HIV expertise
  • Psychiatrists
  • Addictions Counsellor
  • Pharmacists
  • Social Worker
  • Nurse Clinician
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Dietitian
  • Outreach Social Worker
  • Outreach Nurse
  • Researchers
  • Clinic Aide
  • Booking Clerks
  • Unit Clerk
  • Health Records Technician

On our busier clinic days, BC Women's Hospital volunteers may come to clinic to help with child-minding.

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University of British Columbia

The Oak Tree Clinic is affiliated with the University of British Columbia (UBC) as a clinical teaching site for both undergraduate and graduate programs. Students from the Faculties of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Nutrition and Social Work are offered clinical rotations with the various specialists in the clinic. The clinic offers students a unique experience using multidisciplinary team approach to HIV/AIDS care.

BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul's Hospital

The clinic is associated with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul's Hospital. All the HIV medications (aside from some medications not yet licensed in Canada but used in research studies) are supplied through the Centre for Excellence Drug Program. Drs. Burdge, Forbes and Money all sit on the Centre for Excellence Therapeutic Guideline Committee, and have developed the Provincial Guidelines for the Care of Women, Pregnant Women, and Children.

Our Community Partners

The Oak Tree Clinic has always had an active community based advisory committee. This committee was instrumental in obtaining funding for the program in 1994, and in helping to shape our philosophy and approach. We continue to have close working relationships with the Positive Women's Network, Drug and Alcohol Meeting Support for Women, Sheway, Downtown Community Health Clinic, Vancouver Native Health Society, Healing Our Spirit, the STD outreach nurses, and variety of other agencies.

Funding Partners

The clinic welcomes donations for additional support. You can receive more information about the hospital foundations and the opportunity for contributing to the Oak Tree Clinic Program at BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre Foundation

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Our Services

Clinical Care

We provide interprofessional care for women, children and their families living with HIV/AIDs, reproductive infectious disease, or congenital infectious disease.

Medications

For medication-related questions, call 604-875-2212 between 8:30am – 4:30pm on Monday – Friday and ask to speak to the Oak Tree Clinic pharmacist.

For drug information sheets, please see the Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul's hospital

Education

We educate patients and their families, other health care workers, organizations and institutions, and the public about the complex issues of HIV infection in women and children, Reproductive Infectious Disease and Congenital Infectious Disease.

Advocacy

We advocate for improved prevention, diagnosis, care and support.

Research
We contribute to women's focused research, improving access to clinical trials and other research for women and children. 

Early Words Program

We are one of the clinics chosen by the Canadian Children's Literacy Foundation to take part in the Early Literacy Program. We are committed to incorporating early literacy into our practices by providing books and having conversations with families at regularly scheduled visits for children aged 0 to 5. 

Appointments

Appointments

For new Reproductive Infectious Disease and Congenital Infectious Disease patients, please ask your doctor to send our clinic a referral. A booking clerk will call you with an appointment after your referral has been triaged by a doctor.

For new HIV+ patients, please either ask your doctor to send our clinic a referral or call the clinic to speak to a nurse clinician to self-refer. The nurse will book an intake appointment, where you will meet with a nurse and a social worker. You may have lab work done and you will leave with an appointment with an Adult Infectious Disease Specialist.

For all referrals, use the most recent referral form found here: Oak Tree Clinic Referrals

Follow-up Appointments

We recommend that all patients book their next appointment before they leave the clinic.  

Drop-ins

We recommend you book an appointment as we may not be able to accommodate drop-ins.

Cancellations

If you need to cancel or change your appointment, please call our reception desk: 604-875-2212 ext. 1

Confidentiality

We know confidentiality is extremely important to you. We will not disclose your medical status without your consent unless we are obliged to do so by law. Our clinic nurse will ask your permission to obtain medical information from your family doctor. This will help us understand your medical history and current medical problems.  

Relationship with your family doctor

Our clinic will send a letter after each clinic visit to your family doctor/referring doctor to keep them up to date about your progress and care plan. The receptionist will ask if you are still seeing the same family doctor at every clinic visit to ensure that we are sending information only to the doctor that you have authorized. 

If you do not want your family doctor/referring doctor to receive these letters, please ask the receptionist to remove the doctor from your record.

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