Lien Chan had no idea her schizophrenic brother had been shot and killed by an officer when she received a cryptic phone call from Vancouver police asking if he had ever threatened her. With mention of VCH’s Car 87 team.

As seniors slowly move into Powell River’s new extended care facility, (VCH’s) Willingdon Creek Village, the memory of Olive Devaud’s philanthropy lives on.

Angelina Jolie made headlines this week when the New York Times published her commentary about having her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to prevent ovarian cancer– a type of preventative approach pioneered by VCH physicians.

Dr. Babak Shadgan, a VCHRI researcher, has developed a handheld device that, when placed on a patient’s abdomen, can instantly detect urinary tract infections.

The same week the federal government passed a bill making it more difficult for supervised injection sites to operate in Canada, VCH’s clinic to offer drug addicts safe haven has been approved for at least one more year.

(VCH’s) Insite will remain the only supervised injection site in Canada – for now.

Health Canada has granted Vancouver’s Insite supervised drug injection site an exemption to operate for another year, Vancouver Coastal Health announced in a statement Wednesday.

Public safety and social welfare advocates expressed concern this week that legislation put forward by the federal Conservatives could jeopardize the future of VCH’s supervised safe injection facility Insite, and make it all but impossible for similar facilities to be opened elsewhere. With quotes from Anna Marie D’Angelo, a spokesperson for VCH.

Vancouver’s supervised injection facility Insite has received its annual exemption to operate in the Downtown Eastside, but officials fear new federal regulations will make it nearly impossible for similar harm reduction facilities to open elsewhere in Canada. With quotes from Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical health officer for VCH.

One year after the management of the agency responsible for (VCH’s) injection site had to be changed, no criminal charges have been pursued against the former operators of the Portland Hotel Society.