Carrie Stefanson, public affairs leader with VCH, couldn’t say much about the incident, due to the patient privacy policy but confirmed a death occurred Sunday during childbirth.

Zero Waste Vancouver is working with VCH to pilot a program that would allow restaurants to fill containers brought in by customers.

Potential 100,000 yuan to help drug users overcome stigma and provide social assistance. With quotes from Dr. Reka Gustafson’s presentation on the opioid crisis.

Free clinics held monthly for the past three months allowed people to test recreational drugs for fentanyl. Dr. Ian Garber runs the spectrometer at Insite and Karmik.

Ceri Bowles, Volunteer Coordinator for Home Care Services at Vancouver Coastal Health, thanks all the Sunshine Coast volunteers in the community.

4,000 subcontracted hospital housekeepers and dietary workers in British Columbia have won job security through an agreement bargained between HEU, the Ministry of Health, and the regional health authorities including VCH.

Medical wait lists are manipulated in a complicated system that still runs on fax machines with “whack-a-mole” management, says VCH’s Dr. Bassam Masri.

The Vancouver Hospice Society is fighting a proposal for a new townhouse development in Shaughnessy, which it says will compromise its ability to provide the best possible care to its patients. The society has regular funding from VCH.

A death review panel convened by the chief coroner to look into all illicit drug overdose deaths in the province between Jan. 1, 2016 and July 31, 2017 released its findings on April 5. The article mentions the number of deaths within the Coast Garibaldi section of VCH.

Two readers write in support of the proposed temporary modular housing at 7300 Elmbridge. One Richmond resident writes thanking all the stakeholders who made Richmond Hospital’s new acute care tower possible.