Increasing numbers of American health-care professionals are looking north as B.C. continues to break down barriers for U.S. health-care workers to practise here.

People living in and near Trail now have more access to team-based primary care through the new Lower Columbia Community Health Centre (Lower Columbia CHC).

Better access to new life-saving medical treatments is coming with the launch of an eight-bed clinical trials unit (CTU) at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital in Vancouver.

People living in and around Ucluelet will have better access to team-based primary care when doors open on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, to the Ucluelet Health Centre.

People living with substance-use challenges will soon benefit from expanded access to community-based recovery supports with the opening of Abbotsford Junction and Hope Junction, two new recovery community centres in the Fraser Valley.

More young people will soon have better access to the tools they need to manage stress, build resilience and prevent early substance use and mental-health challenges with the expansion of drug- and substance-use prevention supports.

Adults living with mental-health challenges will continue to have access to low- or no-cost counselling services to help them get well.

Dr. Martin Lavoie, British Columbia’s deputy provincial health officer, has issued the following statement to make sure children in B.C. are up to date on all their vaccines as part of back-to-school preparations:

First Nations people living with substance-use challenges will soon benefit from a new Tŝilhqot’in-led healing and wellness model as the Province provides $8.3 million for recovery supports.