Healthcare & Social Services

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Nanaimo is the central Island’s regional health service centre with an ever-expanding hospital and private healthcare facilities and services. The Healthcare and Social Services sector is the largest employment sector in Nanaimo providing 7,460 jobs (Esri 2022) for area residents. The Nanaimo Regional General Hospital serves a catchment area of approximately 300,000 people. Over 600 private businesses are licensed in this sector.

SOURCE: NANAIMO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, JULY 2023
Business Type Count % of sector
6211 - Offices of physicians 99 14%
6212 - Offices of dentists 51 7%
6213 - Offices of other health practitioners 191 28%
62139 - Offices of all other health practitioners 2 0%
6214 - Out-patient care centres 1 0%
62141-Family planning centres 3 0%
6215 - Medical & diagnostic laboratories 15 2%
6216 - Home health care services 15 2%
6219 - Other ambulatory health care services 2 0%
623 - Nursing & residential care facilities 33 5%
624 - Social assistance 130 19%
6241 - Individual & family services 3 0%
62412-Services for the elderly & disabled persons 8 1%
62419 - Other individual & family services 6 1%
6242-Community food & housing & emerg., etc. serv. 4 1%
6244 - Child day-care services 125 18%
Total 688 100%

Last updated: August 4, 2023

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