District of North Vancouver council debated the idea of a six storey seniors care centre. VCH would operate 150 of the beds for seniors.

Richmond will get its first-ever community health centre. Space will be rented in a City Centre building. With quotes from Dr. Meena Dawar, Richmond’s chief medical health officer.

Handing out free drugs to addicts is one of the ideas being raised by overseas addiction experts attending symposium hosted in Vancouver.

Addiction experts from Europe say prescription heroin programs have provided overwhelming evidence to suggest Canada should expand Crosstown Clinic.

Dr. Julio Montaner, director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul’s Hospital, is profiled as one of 150 noteworthy British Columbians.

Naming hospital buildings to recognize significant donations are discussed. Donations from Djavad Mowafaghian, Jimmy Pattison, and Leon Judah Blackmore mentioned.

Canada’s first women-only supervised injection site opened its doors this month in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Drug overdoses in B.C. claimed the lives 136 people in April, almost double April 2016’s total of 69 deaths. No deaths occurred at Insite or any supervised consumption sites.

Overdose deaths last month have increased 97.1 per cent from April 2016. So far this year, 35 per cent of all overdose deaths happened in the VCH region.

After two teens overdosed, experts weigh in on how schools could play a bigger role in curbing the risk. VCH’s School Age Children and Youth (SACY) initiative mentioned.