Data collected by the Office of the Provincial Health Officer (OPHO) shows sacrifices and protective steps taken by self-advocates, families, home-sharing providers and service providers during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an overall positive health outcome for the population Community Living BC (CLBC) serves.

People living on Salt Spring Island will benefit from enhanced patient-centered care as the Lady Minto Hospital emergency department expansion nears completion.

Seniors living in Langley and surrounding areas will benefit from increased access to new and improved long-term care (LTC) as Fraser Health builds a new care home.

Seniors in Squamish and area are one step closer to improved and expanded long-term care as Vancouver Coastal Health prepares to build a new home with 152 beds.

Seniors in Kamloops and the surrounding area will have greater access to care closer to home with the opening of a new long-term care home with 100 new publicly funded beds.

People in in the Kootenay Boundary will have increased access to a new MRI suite at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (KBRH) in Trail.

Seniors in Surrey are one step closer to accessing new long-term care (LTC) beds as construction begins for a new LTC home at 6471 175A St.

Legislative changes are now in effect that will prevent dangerous persons convicted of serious Criminal Code offences from legally changing their names.

Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, has issued the following statement about measures that Health Canada is taking to help protect youth from nicotine-replacement therapies (NRT):