Leon Judah Blackmore died two years ago at age 81, but following an $18.4 million posthumous gift from his philanthropic foundation, Centennial Pavilion at Vancouver General Hospital will be renamed the Leon Judah Blackmore Pavilion.

Almost 80 per cent of street drugs tested for fentanyl at Insite were laced with the potentially deadly opioid, a nine-month pilot study has found.

VGH nurse Will Offley has been an outspoken member of the B.C. Nurses’ Union, as well as a health and political activist. Recently, his campaign for BCNU president ended when the nominations committee kiboshed his candidacy.

Three candidates have been disqualified in the B.C. Nurses’ Union election the weekend before voting begins, leading to heated accusations from both sides. The three held a news conference today outside the emergency entrance at Vancouver General Hospital.

A Terrace radiologist who made hundreds of errors over a four-month period is now the subject of two more reviews. VGH radiologists completed reinterpretations of 8,400 X-rays, CT scans and ultrasounds.

The B.C. Seniors Advocate will be in Pemberton next week to hear more about the needs of seniors in the community.

In 2010, Joe Segal donated what was then a record-setting $12 million for a new mental health building at VGH.

Hundreds of people are expected to attend an interfaith memorial Thursday evening to honour people who have lost their lives during the overdose crisis. Providence Health Care is one of the sponsors.

The ownership of health care facilities matters, but not in the way the president of the BC Nurses’ Union claims.

BC Care Providers Association writes to point out there is no specific B.C. data or studies which clearly highlight that private care homes provide inferior quality of care.