Survival rates for cardiac arrest were highest in Metro Vancouver neighbourhoods with high ethnic Chinese populations. With quotes from Dr. David Barbic, lead researcher and emergency room physician at St. Paul’s Hospital.

People who suffer a cardiac arrest in public are more likely to receive CPR from bystanders in the city’s ethnic Chinese neighbourhoods. With quotes from Dr. David Barbic, lead researcher and emergency room physician at St. Paul’s Hospital.

15 years ago, B.C.’s then-health planning minister announced a sweeping change in the delivery of patient care in the province. Written by Kip Woodward, chairman of VCH.

With the overwhelming number of drug overdoses in the city, maybe it’s time to adopt methods like Vancouver’s Insite.

As Vancouver council prepares to vote on next year’s budget, Vision is trying to sneak in an additional 0.5-per-cent property tax hike to fund the fentanyl problem.

The provincial government is now allowing drug injection rooms to combat the worsening overdose drug crisis. With quotes from Dr. Patricia Daly, VCH’s chief medical officer.

New overdose prevention sites set up with the blessing of the provincial government and VCH won’t replace a tent run by volunteers in a Downtown Eastside alley — yet.

Keira St. George helps people facing addiction in Canada’s growing fentanyl crisis. As a Registered Nurse with Vancouver’s Primary Outreach Centre, she has witnessed devastating effects of this drug.

How the worst overdose epidemic in Vancouver’s history left the Downtown Eastside to fend for itself. With quotes from Miranda Compton, VCH’s regional director of prevention.

h Minister Terry Lake tours mobile medical unit on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside today. The unit is set up at disbanded tent city at 58 West Hastings Street