VCH has completed a new lobby and main entrance at St. Mary’s Hospital in Sechelt.

VCH is ramping up its annual vaccination drive, recommending flu shots to everyone — not just people that are at high risk of getting seriously ill as a result. With quotes from Dr. Paul Martiquet, medical health officer at VCH.

“Prescribing heroin for addicts may seem counterintuitive but using science-based evidence should not be — even for this Conservative government.”

A man suffering from schizophrenia who assaulted three women, only hours after being discharged from St Paul’s Hospital in December 2012, has been found not criminally responsible.

“Like other provincial governments, Alberta’s has faced very public calls to build more long-term care beds for several years…Alberta is overhauling the long-term care system to try and use its existing beds better – a wise and financially prudent decision.”

Singer/songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk visited patients and families at Richmond Hospital’s Cancer Care Clinic and Birth Centre.

“Before we shutter institutions and down-size hospital psychiatric wards, we need to figure out how to care for people with serious mental illness. So far we have failed.” With mention of VCH funding cuts.

VCH held its first of many community engagement meetings on the transition from United Church Health Services. With quotes from Jody Sydor-Jones, Coastal strategy director with VCH.

Educating parents about the facts and myths of vaccinations can be a tricky task.

“As we head into flu season, we examine which is more dangerous … the directive or the disease?” With quotes from Debbie Hodges, a registered psychiatric nurse at VCH.