What was once the home for Metro Vancouver’s mentally ill will soon be the location of a rehabilitation and recovery program for those battling mental-health and substance abuse issues.

Writer Pete McMartin profiles a VCH client who is battling mental illness and drug addiction.

People without legal status in Canada are increasingly afraid to go to hospitals for fear of being reported to the Canada Border Services Agency, a community health group claims. With quotes from Anna Marie D’Angelo, a spokesperson for VCH.

As more people die in intensive care units, where machines can keep diseased and failing lungs, kidneys and other organs alive and functioning in even the sickest of patients, new Canadian research is bringing into sharper focus something once rarely acknowledged: the moral distress experienced by doctors and nurses working with critically ill patients. With quotes from Dr. Peter Dodek, a PHC and VCH physician.

A team of scientists at UBC and Providence Health Care is raising hopes for a drug that will prevent aging and wrinkles. With quotes from David Granville, a researcher at Providence Health Care.

Scientists at the University of British Columbia searching for ways to slow the deterioration of blood vessels may have stumbled on to the key to youthful skin. With quotes from David Granville, a researcher at Providence Health Care.

Hospitals in Ontario are getting more aggressive in keeping people with infectious diseases from visiting patients. With quotes from Laurie Dawkins, a spokesperson for VCH.

The Westin Bayshore invited 200 people from Vancouver residential care homes for a three-course turkey lunch, complete with young carolers and a visit Santa. With quotes from Bob Chapman, a director of Residential Care at VCH.

Burnaby Hospital surgeons blame the facility’s long surgical waiting lists on a lack of funding from Fraser Health and feel the hospital would be better served under a different health authority such as VCH.

A mother paralyzed after a horseback riding accident is recovering at VGH and will be receiving rehab at GF Strong.