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Campus of Care
Welcome to Our Campus of Care
1110 Comox isn't just a building. It's an epicenter of healing and hope, evidence and practice.
The Dr. Peter Centre exists at an intersection most systems were never designed to meet: complex medical needs, mental health challenges, layered trauma, active substance use, poverty, housing insecurity, and social exclusion. For the people who come through our doors, illness rarely travels alone. HIV is often accompanied by mental illness. Treatment is complicated by unstable housing. Healing is interrupted by hunger, stigma, and isolation.
We run on a model built in response to this reality. It is not a collection of programs, but a cohesive clinical philosophy that recognizes a simple truth: you cannot treat a diagnosis without treating the person who lives with it.
Wraparound Services
That's why, at our Campus of Care, we provide wraparound services to address a person's physical, mental and spiritual health needs. Our Day Health features:
- A food and nutrition program serving two delicious meals a day
- Art and music therapies that help participants connect with their feelings in a safe environment
- Counselling to talk through pressing issues
- Recreational programs that regularly schedule outings (a recent outing took participants for ice cream and nature walks!)
- Clinical care delivered by a dedicated Day Health nursing team, which includes medication management, advanced wound care, health education, STI/STBBI testing, and life-saving addiction medicine.
A Place to Stay
Our Campus of Care also features a range of program-based accommodation, fully furnished to a standard of dignity with dishes, linens, appliances, TV, and internet, and close to our wraparound services. These include:
- Residence: Long-term housing with built-in clinical support
- Enhanced Supportive Housing: Housing with support is woven into daily life—case management, ADL support, care aide accompaniment to appointments, full campus access, and after-hours phone support with nursing
- Stabilization Beds: Short-term residential and medical stabilization program, in which people with complex needs can create a bridge between their chaotic life outside and ongoing care.
Service that adapts as lives change
The Dr. Peter Centre's spectrum of care is designed to respond to participants’ evolving needs over time. Some begin their relationship with us through the Day Health Program, accessing meals, nursing support, counselling, Indigenous Wellness, and therapeutic programming in a safe, structured environment. Others require 24-hour specialized nursing care in our licensed residence, where complex medical, mental health, and substance use needs can be safely supported. Still others live in enhanced supportive housing, where stability, skill-building, and community connection support longer-term wellness and independence.
Movement along this spectrum is not linear. Our flexible model allows participants to move between programs as their health or circumstances change, and according to individual, collaboratively designed care plans.
