CLSC

noun

CLSC

noun

Etymology Borrowed from French CLSC.

1

Quebec A nonprofit community center in Quebec that offers public health service; a community medical clinic.

  • In 1985-1986, the budget per capita (in real dollars) of the CLSCs created since 1981 was about half the budget of those opened between 1972-1977.1993, Steven H. Zarit, Leonard Irving Pearlin, Klaus Warner Schaie, Caregiving Systems: Informal and Formal Helpers, →ISBN, page 220:
  • The CLSC will not carry out its mission by resigning itself to satisfying the requests it receives for care and assistance.1982, Canadian Council on Social Development, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, A Reader on Prevention and Social Policies, →ISBN, page 232:
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  • Interviews conducted for this project indicate that neither the professionals at the CLSC nor the representatives of voluntary associations used the virage ambulatoire to date their relationship.2000, Keith G. Banting, The nonprofit sector in Canada: roles and relationships, page 40:
Hypernyms
clinic
Coordinate terms
CHSLD

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