With the launch of Phase 2 of the Integrated Case Management (ICM) System on April 2, 2012, the Province is taking another important step in protecting and supporting B.C.'s most vulnerable citizens, said Minister of Social Development Stephanie Cadieux.

Seniors, other clients with complex care needs and their families are benefiting from increased staffing levels at residential-care facilities as a result of the investment of $55 million from B.C.'s revised residential-care rate structure revenues and one-time funding for infrastructure.

The Province supports new physical activity and sedentary behaviour guidelines for the early years (children aged 0-4) released today by the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) and ParticipACTION.

The Province is expanding PharmaCare coverage for patients suffering from hepatitis C to include the drug boceprevir (Victrelis and Victrelis Triple), helping patients and their families.

All proposed waste to energy (WTE) recovery facilities in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley will be subject to a full, mandatory environmental assessment in accordance with an amended and strengthened regulation under the Environmental Assessment Act, Environment Minister Terry Lake announced.

The Province is providing a grant of $500,000 to the interCultural Online Health Network (iCON), which offers health information to multicultural and Aboriginal families throughout B.C.

During the January to April semester, 200 B.C. nursing students received a total of $400,000 in Nurses Education Bursaries that will help them with their education-related expenses.

A new French-language version of B.C.'s popular Healthy Eating for Seniors handbook is helping to support the health of B.C.'s French-speaking seniors and their families.