Acacia Dockside
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About
We believe that health extends beyond the confines of our bodies – that a healthy community breeds healthy people, and that we can only be as healthy as our environment. At Acacia Health, we endeavour to maintain a high level of environmentally efficient practices, and work hard to involve ourselves in initiatives to help our community.
Our two locations are nestled in Vic West, only 300m apart. Each location offers its own set of disciplines for health and wellness. The Westside Village location houses all of our orthopaedic and manual therapies, while the Dockside Green location hosts everything else.
Our Environmentally Friendly Clinic
- We reduce, reuse, and recycle, and do our best to do so in that order
- Our cotton sheets are 30% smaller in order to reduce the detergent and water used for laundry. Teaming up with The Soap Exchange, the soap we use is very eco-friendly
- The clinic is more than half way through converting to a paperless charting system for all practitioners, and the paper still used for progress notes is always 100% recycled bond. Our letterhead and business cards are printed on 100% recycled paper
- Our Dockside Green clinic location is nestled in the world’s greenest urban community. Synergy, our building, has been awarded LEED Platinum status, the highest honour awarded for sustainable building practices
- The staff rooms are set up for recycling all material, including compost, soft plastic, and styrofoam. We take out our garbage far less than recycling
- At our Dockside Green location, all water used by the toilet is recycled rainwater from around the development
- We painted our clinic in no-VOC or low-VOC paint throughout, and our treatment room doors are made with Douglas Fir — a local renewable resource.
- Our floors are polished concrete which reduces our heating and cooling costs, and limits the carbon footprint of our flooring. Polished concrete is hygienic, durable, and beautiful. Come see for yourself.
About the Acacia Tree
a·ca·cia (Ah-KAY-sha), noun.
Origin: Greek, Latin
The Acacia tree is common to Africa, Australia, and the Middle East. With its wide-spreading canopy, this tree provides shade and serves as a gathering place for people needing rest from the hot sun. Animals know that the Acacia tree indicates water is near, and they will follow a line of Acacia trees to a watering hole.
In Jewish and Egyptian traditions, the Acacia tree is the Tree of Life, which is variously construed to symbolize wisdom and calmness, or to represent the places where communities gather to learn or to worship.
This plant symbolizes a coming together, the creation of community, and the values of wisdom and learning. It reflects the values we hold as a team of professionals. We strive to continually learn and create and contribute to our clinical community and our community at large.
Our Community
MS Society
The MS Society provides services to people with multiple sclerosis and their families and funds research to find the cause and cure for this disease.
Headway – Victoria Epilepsy & Parkinson’s Centre
Headway is a vibrant and welcoming non-profit society whose purpose is to strengthen clients', families', and communities' ability to manage the physical, psychological and social effects of Parkinson's and epilepsy.
Cycle of Life Tour
The Cycle of Life Tour, the cycling event created by our very own Graham Robertson, RMT, raising funds for Vancouver Island Hospice Care.
The Family Naturopathic Clinic
Developed by Dr. Amy Gilchrist, ND, in partnership with Young Parent Support Network (YPSN), Acacia Health, and Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine, the Family Naturopathic Clinic is the first and only free naturopathic clinic for families with low income in Victoria.
