B.C. Centre for Disease Control’s medical director calls for ‘expanded’ prescription opioids, and slams ‘drug policies that criminalize drug users.’ SALOME and NAOMI projects at the Crosstown Clinic, and the DTES Connections Clinic are mentioned.

Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer for VCH, says decriminalization is the only real solution in the midst of the public health overdose crisis.

Attendees at a recent public meeting expressed dissatisfaction with Sodexo, the company contracted to provide food service at all VCH institutions

The NDP, John Horgan, and the party’s ruling candidate, urged Christy Clark to upgrade Richmond Hospital and build a new patient care building.

The return of the mumps caught some NHL players by surprise and they are counting on the league being better equipped to deal with the second such outbreak in a little over two years. With quotes from Gavin Wilson, VCH spokesman.

Antibiotic resistant superbugs are a public health crisis with potentially devastating effects. With quotes from Teresa Zurberg, trainer of Angus, the only certified C. difficile–sniffing dog in North America who has been on the prowl at VCH since last July.

Tony and Nancy Yurkovich recently made the single largest gift in the history of Richmond Hospital Foundation in support of a new acute-care tower at the hospital.

Dr. Chad Kim Sing, dept. head & medical director of emergency medicine at VGH shares a look inside the award-winning documentary series ‘Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH’.

The Downtown Eastside Connections clinic is expected to receive 600 patients a year who want help to stop using illicit drugs. With quotes from Dr. Ron Joe, associate medical director addiction services at VCH.

In the wake of the overdose crisis, the province has opened a new on-demand addiction treatment clinic which is expected to receive 600 patients a year.