Island Health uses innovation to support long-term care residents
Residents of long-term care (LTC) homes in the Island Health region are benefiting from innovation through more timely access to wound care via virtual appointments with nurses specializing in skin, wound, ostomy, and continence care (NSWOC).
Island Health expands outreach service in Sooke with addition of nurse practitioner
Island Health's primary care outreach service in Sooke has recently expanded its team with the addition of Fiona Hutchison, a nurse practitioner.
Youth thrive in ‘life saving’ therapeutic program
Youth and families are expressing gratitude for an Island Health program announced last February, and celebrating the successful graduation of the program’s first cohort after an intensive five-month journey that has profoundly impacted the lives and futures of the youth participants.
Island Health grant empowers Indigenous youth through leadership and resilience conference
A transformative conference focused on promoting leadership and resilience brought together 80 Indigenous students from the Cowichan Valley for a day of empowerment and cultural celebration.
Island Health nurse grateful for stranger’s gift of life
As a student nurse, then as an operating room (OR) nurse, and now as a nurse in the preadmission and booking office at North Island Hospital Comox Valley, Sara Cherewaty has witnessed firsthand the life changing impacts of organ donation.
Climate conversations: Island Health grant supports project to help youth address eco-anxiety
A project supported by an Island Health grant has helped Victoria-area youth deal with anxiety about climate change and inspired them to learn about local efforts that are making a difference.
Four-year-old's visits bring joy to long-term care residents
At Cairnsmore Place long-term care home in Duncan, an unlikely friendship has blossomed between residents and a four-year-old boy named Innis Wright.
Connection is cornerstone for peer coordinator Beth in her substance use recovery journey
For Beth Haywood, connection was more than support—it was survival. Now six years sober and a peer coordinator with Island Health, she credits the life-changing relationships she made along the way as the cornerstone of her recovery.
Nothing boiler plate about boiler removal at NRGH
Boilers and asbestos removed from NRGH without any risk or impacts to patients, staff or the public.