Unless you’re one of the 8,000 people who work in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats, chances are, it’s not a place you give much thought to. With mention of the new St. Paul’s Hospital, which will be located on the False Creek Flats.

Roughly 250 people packed the West End Community Centre auditorium for a town hall meeting to discuss the proposed closure and relocation of St. Paul’s Hospital. The meeting was an opportunity for people voice their concerns and find solutions to keep health care in the neighbourhood.

Residents in Vancouver’s West End have voiced their concerns at a community meeting on the future of St. Paul’s hospital.

The province says it will replace the aging St. Paul’s facility with a new billion-dollar hospital across town, a plan that doesn’t sit well with many.

St. Paul’s Hospital’s relocation is upsetting many West End seniors, who say they need to be able to walk easily to healthcare services.

Debbie Sesula, peer support program co-ordinator, North Shore Adult Community Mental Health Services, speaks at a North Shore Schizophrenia Society Public Education Lecture Series event. With mention of Dr. William, head of the UBC Department of Psychiatry, speaking at LGH on May 27.

“These (home care aides) are there because they care about their clients, but since the early 2000s, government cutbacks have taken away many of their duties,” says letter, which is of critical of VCH’s decision to remove housekeeping services from some of its home support clients.

Aging and population growth in B.C. will drive an almost 60-per-cent increase in new cancer cases in the next 15 years and the province needs a plan to cope with costs and other demands related to the projected growth.

“In a stunning election decided by just a single vote, private medicine pioneer Dr. Brian Day got the nod Tuesday as the 2015/15 president-elect of Doctors of BC.”

City of Vancouver staff plan to bring the proposal to transform Casa Mia into a care facility back to city council for re-referral to public hearing once it’s ready to go due to the long delay in rescheduling it for public hearing. With mention of the applicant speaking to VCH about securing affordable beds.