VCH in partnership with PHS Community Services Society is expanding overdose prevention services in the Downtown Eastside. The Molson Overdose Prevention Site and Lab opened this month in the Molson Bank Building.

Earlier this year, Vancouver Coastal Health issued new rules requiring water to be run for five minutes or until cold at all schools with fountains that had tested high for lead.

In the last month alone there have been 13 news cases of the mumps in the Vancouver Coastal Health region.

For the past 17 years, Providence Health Care hosts an event twice a year where they donate free clothes and haircuts in Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park.

The picture that B.C. seniors paint of daily life within 292 of the province’s licensed residential care facilities is bleak even though the majority feel safe and believe they are being looked after by qualified people.

A groundbreaking new survey from the Office of the Seniors Advocate has been met with support from B.C.’s largest industry association representing the seniors-care sector.

New pilot project modelled after Vancouver-made HIV/AIDS strategy developed by the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) in partnership with VCH. With quotes from Rolando Barrios, assistant director at BC-CfE and senior medical director at VCH.

Coast Hospice is hosting workshops on Sept. 23. Darren Kopetsky, regional director with VCH, will walk participants through how MAiD works and who is eligible to access MAiD.

VCH is warning everyone of a rise in the number of mumps cases across the region. With quotes from Dr. Althea Hayden, VCH’s medical health officer.

VCH is warning young adults to ensure they are protected against the mumps. With quotes from Dr. Althea Hayden, VCH’s medical health officer.