The Care Group bought the property at 1920 Southwest Marine Drive for $10 million in 2010 and now wants the property rezoned so it can build a 62-bed, two-storey long-term care wing onto the mansion.

VCH has asked the Vancouver School Board to ban alternative smokes.

Vancouver police are asking an amendment be made to privacy laws with hospitals and patients.

“B.C. health-care system is at a crossroads. The population is aging and the system is already bursting at the seams.”

The VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation launches a four-part series to run each Sunday in the Province featuring some of the faces of mental illness and those working to fight its stigma.

A CBC investigation has found that incidents involving nurses and violent patients (code whites) happen at least 10 times a day in B.C. hospitals.

The human tissue registry at St. Paul’s Hospital has close to 3,000 hearts in storage.

The Vancouver Native Health Society clinic is not accepting any new patients unless they are children or it is an emergency. With mention of doctors being funded by VCH.

Mayor Gregor Robertson wants the federal government to make the proposed Broadway subway line UBC a priority. With mention of the line linking UBC to major health institutions like VGH.

Innovations in technology are helping health care reach people in remote and rural areas. With mention of VCH’s partnership with B.C. Ambulance on a paramedic-based blood transfusion transport program.