Study looks at clients’ long-term reliance on the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. Last year, the food bank collaborated with Vancouver Coastal Health dieticians to train 150 community kitchen leaders.

Brenda Doherty says she did everything she could to try to save her 15-year-old daughter’s life, but gaps in the system designed to help youth struggling with addiction contributed to her death. Her daughter died two days after she was released from Lions Gate Hospital.

The project will include 100 rental units, 20 units of transitional housing, a detox centre, and social enterprise space. VCH will operate an evidence-based withdrawal management centre that provides both inpatient and at-home detox services.

Helen Jennens is pleading with doctors to use PharmaNet, B.C.’s database of all dispensed prescriptions.

The writer argues for heroin being treated like a prescription drug, and other harm reduction strategies. The article profiles a client of VCH’s Crosstown Clinic.

Reda Wilkes, public health nurse with VCH, co-authored a study of Vancouver parents that showed parents give children more screen time than recommended.

Richmond First is calling on the province to commit, immediately, to building a new acute care tower at Richmond Hospital.

Squamish family says legislation should allow parents to have their children at risk held in care against their will.

Last week’s revelation that VCH, Trellis and the shíshálh Nation are close to an agreement on a long-term care facility is getting mixed reviews, despite assurances on jobs.

A Squamish family is calling for legal changes after their daughter’s life was cut short by an overdose.