Vancouver Coastal Health is asking the Bowen Island Municipality to address water issues in the Cove Bay water system. VCH is requesting that plans for a new treatment process meet a series of standards and states that such a plan will be placed as a condition to Cove Bay’s operating permit and will need to be in place before the current system is expanded. With mentions of VCH Medical Health Officer Health Mark Lysyshyn.

Vancouver Coastal Health will be keeping a running tab on all increased costs from four events in the Sea to Sky corridor this summer: this weekend’s five-day long, 25,000-strong Pemberton Music Festival, Ironman, the Squamish Valley Music Festival and Crankworx. With quotes from Laurie Leith, VCH operations director.

Four residents in family medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital and the UBC Faculty of Medicine were pleased that the City of Vancouver voted to support the continued and expanded provision of multidisciplinary primary care at Vancouver’s community health centres. With mention of VCH.

A Whistler Blackcomb helicopter transporting a youth was unable to land at the Whistler Health Care Centre helipad and landed at the municipal helipad. VCH Communications Public Affairs Officer Viola Kaminski is quoted.

Dr. Perry Kendall, B.C.’s chief provincial medical health officer, writes an op-ed, on behalf of all of B.C.’s chief medical health officers, including VCH’s Dr. Patricia Daly, about the recently increased highway speeds. The piece calls for the annual monitoring of serious injuries and deaths on these roads.

Richmond Hospital bed map redesign concerns the BCNU with comments from Richmond’s Chief Operating Officer Dermot Kelly.

Early HIV infection is difficult for doctors to diagnose using clinical exam skills alone, according to a new B.C. study by the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Lead author Dr. Evan Wood, Canada Research Chair in Inner City Medicine at UBC.

The 52-year-old Dragan was shot on a sidewalk in front of the Starbucks on Davie Street and Marinaside Crescent on June 10. References to VGH and Dr. Morad Hameed, VGH trauma surgeon as the life saver of the patient.

The services YouthCO provides to HIV-positive youth have changed over the last 20 years as prognoses for people with AIDS have improved, but the non-profit’s principle of providing youth-to-youth education remains unaltered. With mention of funding changes from VCH._

Early HIV infection is difficult for doctors to diagnose using clinical exam skills alone, according to a new B.C. study by the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. With mention of VGH and St. Paul’s Hospital being early adopters of the new guidelines for adult HIV testing.