Nurses at South Island Urgent and Primary Care Centres (UPCCs) are expanding the type of care they provide by offering several services that patients would traditionally receive from physicians and nurse practitioners.
People living on Salt Spring Island will benefit from enhanced patient-centered care as the Lady Minto Hospital emergency department expansion nears completion.
A youth suicide prevention program that has supported thousands of young people in Greater Victoria is expanding to more school districts on Vancouver Island, thanks in part to an Island Health Community Wellness Grant Program.
International Overdose Awareness Day is the world’s largest annual campaign to prevent toxic drug poisonings, and remember, without stigma, those who have died.
Starting on September 4, Westshore residents will have improved access to mental health and substance use support services with the opening of the new Westshore Mental Health and Substance Use Hub.
People in the Alberni Valley and surrounding regions will benefit from more accurate and faster cancer screening thanks to a new, state-of-the-art 3D mammography system at West Coast General Hospital (WCGH) in Port Alberni.
Environment and Climate Change Canada has issued a heat warning for the following region in Island Health:
East Vancouver Island – Campbell River to Duncan
The Province has not declared an extreme heat emergency for this region.