Port Alberni Dialysis and Public Health Services are relocating to 4201 - 6th Avenue
PORT ALBERNI – Island Health’s Renal Dialysis and Public Health Services in Port Alberni will soon be relocating to 4201–6th Avenue. This new location, which will provide our clients, patients and staff with improved space, is currently being renovated and is expected to be open in early April.
Island Health Board announces new CEO
VICTORIA – Leah Hollins, Chair of the Island Health Board of Directors, is pleased to announce that Ms. Kathy MacNeil has been appointed President & Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
Celebrating 50th anniversary of pioneering surgery at Victoria's Royal Jubilee
VICTORIA - Visitors to Royal Jubilee Hospital can travel back in time with a time-capsule display in the Patient Care Centre's atrium, which features surgical artifacts from the 1800s to 1968.
So you have full blown influenza. Now what?
VANCOUVER ISLAND – Influenza season is here and it can be serious. It's hit your household, bringing family members a nasty cough, aches and pains and fever. Influenza, the “flu,” can be a serious respiratory disease that contributes to the death of approximately 3,500 people a year in Canada.
The Flu is here. Make protecting your community from the flu your New Year’s resolution
ISLAND WIDE – As we welcome 2018, confirmed outbreaks of Influenza A are appearing in long-term care facilities in the Nanaimo-Parksville area. Also, there are sporadic laboratory reports of people in communities throughout Vancouver Island with confirmed cases of the flu.
Island Health Board of Directors to meet in Victoria
ISLAND WIDE - Island Health’s Board of Directors will hold its next open board meeting in Victoria. Wednesday, February 7, 2018 8:30 am - noon
New volunteer baby hugging program launches at Nanaimo General Hospital
NANAIMO, BC, January 15, 2018 – Island Health announced today the launch of the latest Huggies® No Baby Unhugged® program at Nanaimo Regi
Make a smoke-free lifestyle your goal for 2018!
NANAIMO — If your New Year’s resolution is to quit smoking, Dr. Derek Poteryko can help.
Fentanyl test strips help keep people safer this winter
VANCOUVER ISLAND – Fentanyl test strips are now available at Island Health’s supervised consumption and overdose prevention sites, allowing people to test drugs before they are consumed. Sites in Victoria, the city with the third-highest number of overdose deaths in B.C.