Safety

When the new Cowichan District Hospital (CDH) opens in 2027, design decisions being made today will ensure it is providing the safest possible care to the growing population of the Cowichan Valley, while also ensuring the safety of staff. With a building three times the size of the existing facility, the CDH Replacement Project Nuts'a'maat Alliance has been collaborating with program staff, and using evidence-based design research, to tackle persistent healthcare challenges.

Organizations can now apply for the 2025 British Columbia Vision Zero in Road Safety Grant Program for projects to make roads safer.

Island Health and Lifesaving Society, BC and Yukon Branch are calling on the region’s residents to focus on water safety this National Injury Prevention Day, July 5.

Students participating in the P.A.R.T.Y. program learn that crashes are not accidents, and traumatic injury can be prevented.

Thanks to a $10,000 provincial grant, walkers, joggers, cyclists and equestrians who frequent a busy portion of the Galloping Goose Trail in Metchosin can now safely cross Happy Valley Road.

Excited students and their families enjoyed a safer return to school at École Oceanside Elementary in Parksville thanks to new road safety measures led by the school’s Parent Advisory Council (PAC).

Water is an integral part of our lives. It gives us life, but it can also take it away. From 2001 to 2020, there were 276 fatal drownings in Island Health.