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Friday, April 25, 2025 9:15 AM
Children and youth with complex care needs throughout B.C are closer to having access to a dedicated BC Children’s Hospital facility, as construction is now underway.
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Thursday, April 24, 2025 2:15 PM
New involuntary care beds are now open at Surrey Pretrial Services Centre, providing people in custody who are in crisis and have overlapping mental-health and addiction challenges, as well as brain injuries due to toxic-drug overdoses, with specialized involuntary care.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 2:15 PM
More people now have access to timely, streamlined care for urgent mental-health and substance-use concerns at the new Urgent Care Response Centre North at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 12:45 PM
Changes to the Employment Standards Act will leave health-care providers with more time to spend with patients by eliminating the need for workers to get sick notes for short-term absences from work.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 8:30 AM
The Province is accelerating the future of patient care and advancing testing for cancer, heart disease, transplants and infections with eight new genomics research projects, in partnership with Genome BC and Genome Alberta.
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Monday, April 14, 2025 7:30 AM
Josie Osborne, Minister of Health, and Dr. Bonnie Henry, provincial health officer, have issued the following statements marking the ninth anniversary of the toxic-drug crisis being declared a public health emergency:
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Monday, April 7, 2025 10:30 AM
Josie Osborne, Minister of Health, has released the following statement in recognition of Public Health Week, April 7-11, 2025:
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Friday, March 28, 2025 11:56 AM
Starting Tuesday, April 8, 2025, free additional COVID-19 vaccines will be available to people in B.C., with a focus on those who are at higher risk of severe illness.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025 11:30 AM
Indigenous women with complex mental-health and substance-use challenges in and around Surrey will soon have access to safe, culturally supportive housing and wraparound services to help them with their recovery.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025 3:00 PM
The Province is taking action to improve care for people who suffer from severe, overlapping mental-health and substance-use challenges, including brain injuries from toxic-drug poisonings, ensuring they have the right care to meet their needs.
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