Breadcrumb Home About us Media centre News Updates regarding Vancouver Coastal Health people, programs, services and initiatives. Keywords Authored on 20242023202220212020Select a year2025 Category - Any -2SLGBTQIA+Awards and recognitionCommunity engagementCommunity eventsEmergency careEquity, diversity and inclusionHome and community careHospital careIndigenous HealthInnovation and researchMental health and substance usePublic HealthRedevelopment projectsRehabilitationSurgerySustainabilityVCH staffWellness Type - Any -StoryPress releaseInformation bulletinBC Gov. NewsNews releasePublic service announcement Apply Search Sort: Sort Old-NewNew-OldA-ZZ-A Showing 563 Article(s) February 28 2017 Increasing access to surgery at Squamish General Hospital VANCOUVER, BC – Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) has opened a second operating room at Squamish General Hospital in order to reduce surgical wait times. The additional OR will be staffed five days per week with surgeons from Squamish and Lions Gate Hospital. Six additional nursing positions will be added to assist with the additional surgeries.With the expanded OR capacity, residents of the Sea to Sky Corridor and the North Shore won’t have to wait as long for several types of surgery. VCH anticipates an additional 576 surgeries will be performed annually at Squamish General Hospital. Information bulletin ➞ February 27 2017 New on-demand addiction treatment clinic opens in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside VANCOUVER, BC – For some, the decision to stop the cycle of substance use needs to be acted on immediately, or the opportunity is lost. Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) is opening a new clinic to catch people in that moment so they can walk in off the street, start treatment, and turn their lives around. Information bulletin ➞ February 21 2017 Travel Clinic warns spring breakers: Don’t expose yourselves! VANCOUVER, BC – Travel exposes people to new cultures, new environments, new foods—but the one thing the VCH Travel Clinic doesn’t want travellers exposed to is new bacteria and viruses. Information bulletin ➞ February 17 2017 Lions Gate Hospital project takes next step NORTH VANCOUVER - A new acute care facility at Lions Gate Hospital is one step closer, following the Province's approval of the concept plan for the facility. Information bulletin ➞ February 8 2017 $102 million investment will expand access to surgical care at VGH VANCOUVER - The Province, in partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health and the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation, today announced a $102 million project for 16 new state-of-the-art operating rooms to be built at the Jim Pattison Pavilion at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH). Information bulletin ➞ January 24 2017 New substance treatment services for women on the Downtown Eastside Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Coastal Health, Atira Women’s Resources Society and BC Housing are supporting overdose response efforts by opening 38 substance use treatment beds for women in the Downtown Eastside. The supportive treatment units are located in Atira’s Rice Block building at 404 Hawks Avenue. Women are moving in this week. Information bulletin ➞ Pagination First page First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 76 Page 77 Current page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 … Next page ›› Last page Last
