South and Gulf Islands Home Support Transition: learn more
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Medications

Medications

Learn more about various medications, what they do, and how they will help you.

Aboriginal Health

Aboriginal Health

With gratitude and humility, we work with Aboriginal communities to listen to and honour cultural beliefs, to identify barriers, and to improve health outcomes as partners in care.

Overdose Prevention

Overdose Prevention

A significant increase in drug-related overdoses & deaths across B.C. prompted Provincial Health Officer Dr. Perry Kendall to declare a public health emergency April 2016.

Health Alerts

No measles cases have been confirmed on Vancouver Island. Recent measles cases have been confirmed in Vancouver, BC and Washington state.
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News

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More than a quarter million visits to Island Health overdose prevention and supervised consumption sites

Island Health is observing more than 250,000 visits to supervised consumption and overdose prevention sites – more than 1,000 reversed overdoses and zero deaths while at the same time delivering more supports and services to people who are using drugs and for people who are ready to begin a recovery journey.
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Province to launch catch-up immunization program to protect against measles

The Province is launching a measles immunization catch-up program to help B.C. families ensure their children are protected from measles. The program will run from April through June 2019.
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South Island and Gulf Islands Home Support Transition

Island Health and Beacon Community Services, the non-profit, community organization that currently delivers health authority funded home support services on Southern Vancouver and the Gulf Islands, have agreed to transition home support services to Island Health by October 31, 2019.
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