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) July 29 2016 Naloxone kits now available in emergency departments to help address overdose crisis Vancouver, BC – Take-home naloxone kits have been given to 42 overdose patients in emergency departments in the past month, suggesting ramped up efforts to get the life-saving antidote into the hands of people who need it are working. Information bulletin ➞ July 27 2016 Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood to gain up to 74 residential care beds in new and expanded facility Vancouver, BC - Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) has signed an agreement with Villa Cathay Care Home Society to rebuild and expand its residential care home in Vancouver. The contract will see VCH increase the number of beds purchased from Villa Cathay by 42 for a total of 192 publicly funded beds. Information bulletin ➞ July 19 2016 World class skier first to benefit from new brain treatment at Vancouver General Hospital Vancouver, BC – When Jamie Crane-Mauzy stood at the start line of the slopestyle event at the World Ski and Snowboard Festival in Whistler on April 11, 2015, she had no idea it would be the race of her life. Information bulletin ➞ July 15 2016 Whooping cough in Squamish Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) Public Health is warning Squamish residents to ensure they’re protected against whooping cough (pertussis) as the number of people getting the infection is increasing. So far this year (since January 1) in the Howe Sound area there have been twice the number of infections as the historical average. 70 per cent of those people were 18 years old or younger. Information bulletin ➞ July 5 2016 Canada’s first C. diff dog ready to make a difference at VGH Dogs can do amazing things from hunting down criminals to sniffing out drugs. But Angus, a two-year old English springer spaniel, is a detection dog like no other. Angus has officially passed all of his training to detect C. difficile or C.diff, a superbug that attacks people whose immune systems have been weakened by antibiotics. C. diff is the most common cause of infectious diarrhea in hospitals and long-term care facilities. Information bulletin ➞ June 8 2016 Mumps outbreak worsens Vancouver – The number of people with mumps in the Vancouver Coastal Health region has grown to 46 with the illness now reported in Whistler, Squamish, Vancouver and North Vancouver. Information bulletin ➞ Pagination First page First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 81 Page 82 Current page 83 Page 84 Page 85 Page 86 … Next page ›› Last page Last
