Premier Christy Clark announced $3.5 million to the University of Victoria to support an innovative project that will help seniors and people with disabilities remain as independent as possible while still living at home.

Premier Christy Clark launched the most comprehensive health-promotion program anywhere in Canada - the $68.7-million Healthy Families BC strategy, which will help families make healthy choices and introduce innovative approaches to challenges facing the health care system.

More B.C. children will have access to fresh, B.C.-grown fruit and vegetable snacks in the classroom thanks to a $3-million expansion of the BC School Fruit and Vegetable Nutritional Program, Premier Christy Clark announced today.

Nicotine replacement therapies will be available to all British Columbian smokers at no cost and smoking cessation prescription drugs will be covered under PharmaCare.

Premier Christy Clark today announced $13.375 million towards a new Ronald McDonald House that will support British Columbian families who have a sick or disabled child needing to travel to Vancouver for treatment at BC Children's Hospital.

The premiers of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan are working to create new opportunities through the year-old New West Partnership agreement between the three western provinces, including collaborative health care purchasing that could save the provinces millions of taxpayer dollars.

Young patients of BC Children's Hospital joined Premier Christy Clark and Health Minister Michael de Jong to officially kick off construction of the BC Children's and BC Women's Hospitals redevelopment project.

Health care for families across the Fraser Valley will benefit from B.C.'s largest-ever health-care expansion - the new, $512-million Surrey Memorial Hospital expansion project, which was officially launched by Premier Christy Clark.