As of September 24, you’ll no longer have to report to security at UBCH Koerner for an after-hours escort into Detwiller. All staff requiring after-hours access will be expected to have an ID card with access privileges.

Listen up! Telephone and verbal medication orders can be misheard, misinterpreted and/or mistranscribed. We want to limit their use. When verbal orders are unavoidable, use tall man lettering to highlight the main dissimilarities in look-alike drug names.

Learn the latest on what’s open and what’s not at UBCH during contstruction and renovations.

Medication Reconciliation – or MedRec – reduces medication errors and VGH Surgery can prove it. Since implementing our new Admission MedRec process,they’ve cut discrepancies by a whopping 75%. All the more reason we need to complete our MedRec forms.

VCH recreation therapists are playing significant roles at the local, provincial, national and – yes! – international levels. Read all about our small but mighty team and how they’re supporting recreation therapy practice and doing us proud.

We want to share your work and your success with others! It’s part of how we put people first.

Wicked thai soup, wild rice and spicy eggplant … oh my!

September 17 Cream of Broccoli Soup – $1.85 Chili Lime Chicken Wrap – $4.75 Dawn’s Gourmet Mac & Cheese with Mixed Greens- $6.50 September 18 Minestrone Soup – $1.85 Tomato, Spinach, & Mozza on Marble Rye – $4.75 Beef & Broccoli with Steamed Rice – $6.50 September 19 Leek, Carrot, & Ham Soup – $1.85 […]

The latest on our ongoing series of VA Medication Safety Committee bulletins to help us enhance our quality of care and protect patient safety. Posted on units and archived online, these bulletins are one way to reinforce our regular practices while preparing for accreditation in November. Medication safety is what we do every day.