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The Excellence in BC Health Care awards celebrate excellence and innovation in BC’s health care community.

Thanks to the 637 of you who completed the 2012 reader survey, and congrats to the draw prize winners. Click the headline to see what was popular this year in VCH News.

Maria Gunkel, microbiologist at the VGH, and Tracey Swallow, facilitator, imPROVE at PHSA, were recognized at the VCH 2012 ‘Commuter of the Year’ award ceremony for their outstanding long-term dedication to carbon neutral commuting.

Cyrus Dastoor, the Program Administrative Assistant for Vancouver Home Hospice with VCH Palliative care, is the winner of the iPad mini, picked at random from 1,039 survey respondents.

The Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) Clinic for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders at UBC Hospital invites patients, staff, and the public to participate in Dementia Forum 2013. Topics include exercise and dementia, meaningful activities for people living with dementia, advancements in diagnosis, and important resources and supports.

Several months after the Welfare Food Challenge story November story two VCH staff have had some time to reflect on how eating for $26 a week affects the public at large.

Personal Tax Credit – If your personal status or exemptions have changed, please forward a completed and authorized TD1/BCTD1 to PayrollVCH@hssbc.ca.

When tape, adhesive discs, monitor leads or other adhesive items are left attached to linen when deposited into the soiled laundry, it becomes baked on during the highly automated laundry process leaving behind an unsightly stain and in most cases, renders the item unfit for use and must be discarded.