The City of North Vancouver is considering an end to its 20-year prohibition on gambling. VCH has been invited to a meeting on the issue.

A West Vancouver family is suing a local funeral home, its U.S.-based parent company and St. Paul’s Hospital for psychological suffering after their mother’s body was picked up from the morgue without their permission and went ‘missing’ for several days.

“The problem goes back to the days before health services were regionalized. Well into the 1990s, B.C. had 700 different agencies delivering medical care. Each facility was free to choose its own software.”

“The bottom line is that Canada’s health care system only looks as good as many of us like to think it is when we compare it to the American system.”

Six days before the B.C. Supreme Court was set to begin a long-awaited trial that could alter the public health-care system in B.C. – in fact, in Canada – the provincial government uncovered new documents in its own files that forced another delay.

Two osteoarthritis patients struggling with constant pain are speaking out in frustration about increasingly long waits to get hip replacement surgery. With mention of one of the patients receiving care at VGH.

More than a thousand health care workers in Metro Vancouver will soon be unemployed because their jobs are being contracted out. With mention of layoff notices issued to cleaners at various hospitals and extended care facilities at VCH.

A spike in fentanyl-related drug overdose deaths in B.C. has prompted a new campaign by police and health officials to warn occasional drug users, who they say are most at risk. With quotes from Dr. Mark Lysyshyn, a medical health officer with VCH.

Dr. Elizabeth Bryce, Director of Infection Control at Vancouver Coastal Health, is somewhat amused at the sight of a dog roaming the halls of Vancouver General Hospital.

VGH has launched a pilot program to see if a dog can sniff out a potentially-deadly bacteria in hospitals.