October 2021

Some highlights:

The rural tax: comprehensive out-of-pocket costs associated with patient travel in British Columbia
New long-term care standards will fall flat without money or enforcement, experts warn
B.C. hospital housekeepers, food-service workers being brought back under public sector
Exhausted and overworked, healthcare workers are fleeing the sector.
Unless we act now, we’ll pay a price for decades

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Local family gives back after spending 172 days at Ronald McDonald House with sick daughter

Jocelyn Kerr, third from the left, was diagnosed with cancer in 2021. She and her family spent 172 days at Ronald McDonald House during her

Deal reached to keep dozens of sexual health clinics open another year, B.C. group says

A network of B.C. sexual health clinics has been given a new lease on life with a funding boost from the province. Twenty-five out of

B.C. ends take-home safer supply for drug users to stop diversion

Photo: The Canadian Press Castanet – The Canadian Press – Feb 19, 2025 British Columbia’s health minister has announced that the province is changing its safer-supply

Kootenay ferry strike hurting region’s economy, mental health: business leaders

The Kootenay Lake ferry strike has almost cut off the economic connection between Nelson and the East Shore. (Tamara Hynd) Nelson Star – February 18 2025

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Local family gives back after spending 172 days at Ronald McDonald House with sick daughter

Deal reached to keep dozens of sexual health clinics open another year, B.C. group says

B.C. ends take-home safer supply for drug users to stop diversion

Kootenay ferry strike hurting region’s economy, mental health: business leaders

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Local family gives back after spending 172 days at Ronald McDonald House with sick daughter

Deal reached to keep dozens of sexual health clinics open another year, B.C. group says