About Us

The First Nations Primary Care Initiative (FNPCI) is a partnership between the Ministry of Health, First Nations Health Authority and Indigenous communities throughout the Province with a purpose to increase primary care access and attachment to primary care clinicians, with a focus on collaborative, team-based, culturally-safe care. All FNPCI’s in British Columbia are First Nations-Led. The Pata'yi FNPCI, located on North Vancouver Island, is society operated (The North Vancouver Island Primary Care Initiative Health Society) and governed through a Board of Directors from each of the ten Kwakwaka’wakw Nations the FNPCI serves: Kwakiutl, Mamalilikulla First Nation, Dzawada’enuxw First Nation, Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis First Nation, Gwawaenuk Tribe, Gwa’sala- ‘Nakwaxda’xw Nations, T'latlasik'wa_la’la First Nation, Quatsino First Nation, and Da’naxda’xw First Nation. The First Nations Health Authority supports the Pata'yi FNPCI and its Society with recruitment an...