[Excerpt] May 23, 2019 – By Alex Hemingway
Seymour Health received nearly $2 million from Vancouver Coastal Health to renovate their UPCC property. The health authority appears to have used public dollars to enhance a privately owned real estate asset.
Instead of inviting in these for-profit firms, why isn’t Vancouver Coastal Health running the UPCCs and other proposed health care services themselves or by partnering with community non-profits?
The health authority’s moves towards corporate health care delivery take us in the opposite direction of the impressive range of reforms taking place in BC’s public health care system. A swift change of policy is in order here.
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New chief coroner seeks to use data to shine a light on B.C.’s deaths
B.C.’s new coroner, Dr. Jatinder (Taj) Baidwan, at his office in Victoria: “To me, the world is about data.” ADRIAN LAM, TIMES COLONIST B.C.’s new
