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 573 Article(s) March 16 2017 VCH confirms plans to rebuild Richmond Lions Manor RICHMOND, BC -- Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) today confirmed it has moved a step closer toward building a new publicly-funded 144-bed care home in Steveston that will help address current and future demand for residential care services in Richmond. Information bulletin ➞ March 13 2017 Angus and the K9 Infection Prevention Team working at VGH VANCOUVER, BC – You would be barking up the wrong tree if you thought Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) knew everything there is to know about infection control. In fact, VCH’s infection fighting team is learning a lot from an unlikely source – Angus, a two-and-a-half-year-old English springer spaniel who is trained to detect Clostridium difficile or C. difficile, a superbug that attacks people whose immune systems have been weakened by antibiotics. Information bulletin ➞ March 8 2017 Measles alert for three YVR flights (Updated) VANCOUVER, BC – Travelers at the Vancouver International Airport (YVR) on the following three flights may have been exposed to measles Information bulletin ➞ March 8 2017 Controversial “liberation therapy” fails to treat multiple sclerosis Opening up narrowed veins from the brain and spinal cord is not effective in treating multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study led by the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health. Information bulletin ➞ 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 ➞ Pagination First page First Previous page ‹‹ … Utility page 77 Utility page 78 Current page 79 Utility page 80 Utility page 81 Utility page 82 … Next page ›› Last page Last
