Providence Health Care

• St. Paul’s Hospital’s Lights of Hope construction kicks off

  The goal is to raise $3.6 million, which will go towards critical equipment, life-saving research and community programs in the providence health region.

  Canada

  Oct 22, 2022
  
• ‘It’s beautiful to see’: Virtual pet therapy comforts B.C. long-term care residents during COVID-19

  Stuart Mah and Nugget the dog are now dialling up their elderly fans once a week via FaceTime. The elderly residents eagerly look forward to the virtual visit.

  Health

  Jan 25, 2021
  
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• How pets are helping residents of one B.C. seniors’ home get through COVID-19

  Live-in pets have brought love and comfort to residents of The Views at St. Joseph's in Comox for about 15 years.

  Jul 8, 2020
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• Senior claims Vancouver hospital threatened to discharge him to homeless shelter

  The Vancouver resident, who is now in Mount Saint Joseph Hospital for treatment of an infection, claims the hospital is now pressuring him to be discharged.

  Health

  Oct 25, 2019
• Pubs, daycares, theatres needed in senior care homes: Care providers

  A group of healthcare leaders says more needs to be done for B.C. seniors living in care homes.

  Health

  Sep 14, 2018
• Vancouver Coastal Health says its hospital food isn’t horrible, and they have the numbers to prove it

  "We're trying to change that perception of hospital food."

  Health

  Mar 3, 2018
• Port Coquitlam woman travels to Kamloops for treatment she can’t get in Vancouver

  A Port Coquitlam woman says she is forced to drive all the way to Kamloops to receive a medical treatment that Vancouver Coastal Health refuses to offer her locally.

  Health

  Nov 2, 2016
• NDP raises fear of St. Paul’s Hospital being closed

  NDP MLA Spencer Chandra Hebert says he's heard the aging hospital, which Christy Clark promised to spend $500 million revitalizing in 2012, will instead be moved.

  Apr 2, 2015
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• 16×9: Life at the end of the needle

  120 Vancouver-area addicts are waiting for the first batch of Pharma Heroin to arrive from Switzerland as part of a supervised heroin maintenance program.

  Nov 19, 2014