The B.C. government, the Government of Canada, and the Canadian Red Cross have brought the Canadian Red Cross Health Emergency Response Unit (ERU) training to British Columbia for the first time as they work together to strengthen preparation and response to a catastrophic disaster such as an earthquake.

Government is committing $500,000 for 2015 Age-friendly Community Planning and Project grants to help local governments establish or continue projects and community planning that supports healthy, active seniors.

Mayors from throughout B.C. will help shape the future of rural health care today in discussions with Health Minister Terry Lake and health authority representatives at the annual Union of British Columbia Municipalities convention in Whistler.

The Government of B.C. has partnered with BC Transplant to make registering your decision on organ donation easier than ever before.

Michelle Stilwell, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health for Healthy Living and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health for Seniors, issued the following statement in recognition of World Alzheimer's Day, which is September 21:

The Ministry of Health, in partnership with Northern Health, is responding to an urgent need for more primary health-care resources in Fort St. John by funding three new nurse practitioners for the community's unattached patient clinic.