Calgary clinic reinventing how providers can offer women's healthcare

The IUD and Women’s Health Clinic’s dedicated to helping younger women understand and plan for their reproductive lives as part of lifelong caring for their bodies. Its clientele is often marginalized by the traditional healthcare system, includes recent immigrants and women concerned about racial or gender discrimination. The clinic’s patients may be reluctant to take intimate health concerns to their local walk-in clinic staff and the clinic’s all-female team of family doctors and staff offer expertise and comfortable familiarity, especially for patients from the same immigrant communities. It  has signs and literature in different languages, along with female doctors and staff who speak and understand them. Even with the clinic’s emphasis on meeting the needs of immigrant communities, when it opened, half of its patients were Canadian-born.