At Home: Study shows people are healthier and use crisis services less after getting a home
Vancouver Sun – Part 5 in a series
For decades, Anne Newman went to bed every night not knowing if her youngest son Cameron, who is profoundly deaf and has schizophrenia, was safe and warm. But for the past two years, she has fallen asleep knowing he was in his own apartment, with outreach workers monitoring his remarkable transformation from a chronically homeless man with untreated mental illness.
Rainier women remain a VCH priority
Vancouver Courier – Letter to the editor
Despite suggestions in your recent article, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) is not abandoning women at the Rainier Hotel or the Downtown Eastside. The letter is co-written by Dr. Rolando Barrios, Senior Medical Director, Vancouver Community, and Joanne Bezzubetz, Executive Director, Vancouver Community.
Ortho care boosted with new surgical hire
Whistler Pique
Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) confirmed this week that Dr. Sarah (Sally) Clark has been hired in the wake of Dr. Pat McConkey’s retirement. Clark joins Dr. Alex Brooks-Hill as the corridor’s second orthopedic surgeon.
VCH investigating more changes to helipad
Whistler Pique
Pressure is on to upgrade health care centre helipad to allow single engine helicopter access. Brent Alley, Executive Director of Capital Projects, VCH, is quoted.
When 30 youths contemplate mass suicide, it’s time to act
Globe and Mail – Editorial
The writer questions why a suicide pact uncovered in Vancouver has failed to incite shock and horror amongst Canadians.
NDP urges Fraser Health to buy locally
Chilliwack Progress
The NDP is calling on the B.C. government to step into food procurement by hospitals that neighbour on key food-producing areas of the province like the Fraser Valley. Spokesperson Anna Marie D’Angelo comments on BISS and Fraser Health food operations.
Dix Abbotsford visit offers food for thought
Abbotsford Mission Times
New Democrat leader Adrian Dix says his party’s freedom of information request reveals the Fraser Health Authority doesn’t track its food sources. Spokesperson Anna Marie D’Angelo comments on BISS and Fraser Health food operations.