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Vancouver Coastal Health welcomes back 864 environmental, food-service workers

People accessing health care in the Lower Mainland, North Shore, Sunshine Coast and Sea-to-Sky will benefit from more stable, consistent and supportive patient care as 864 environmental services and food-service workers return to the public system as Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) employees.

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How genuine teamwork can help build a tower

Vio Geana is a Senior Leader on the Richmond Hospital Redevelopment Project team. His genuine positivity, diligence and belief that sour gummy bears can fix anything has helped him lead and support a high performing facilities project team. This is his story about how he came to work on this project and why this work is important to him.

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Cambie Gardens apartments welcome first individuals

Vancouver, B.C. – Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) has reached an important milestone as 44 individuals will move into the first community-based supported housing apartments at Cambie Gardens in South Vancouver starting on October 5, 2022. An additional 70 will move into community housing in the coming years.

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How moving to Vancouver led to a life changing career in health care

Wendy Ma is a project manager in the Richmond Hospital Project Management Office. In her role, she is responsible for helping to get the hospital ready for a campus-wide rejuvenation and the new nine-floor acute care tower, the Yurkovich Family Pavilion. This is how she came to work in health care and the lessons she's learned along the way.My journey towards improving care for the Richmond community.

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VCH clinics to offer new combination bivalent COVID-19 vaccine for fall booster campaign

VANCOUVER, B.C. – Starting the week of Sept. 19, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) vaccine clinics will begin offering eligible individuals the new combination bivalent (two-strain) COVID-19 vaccine as part of the province’s fall booster program. This vaccine offers a strong immune response to circulating Omicron variants, the most common circulating COVID-19 strains in B.C. It also boosts protection to the original COVID-19 strain.

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Take steps to minimize exposure to smoky air

Lower Mainland, B.C. — Metro Vancouver has issued an air quality advisory due to high concentrations of fine particulate matter that are expected to persist through the weekend. Elevated levels of fine particulate matter are due to smoke from both wildfires burning in BC and the US and a fire burning in Vancouver at a wood recycling facility. Smoke concentrations may vary widely across the region as winds and temperatures change, and as wildfire behaviour changes.

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