Tag: Featured

Dr. Bonnie Henry releases vaccination status percentages for health professions with physicians and dietitians the highest, alternative medicine professions the lowest.
At a press conference in Victoria on May 10, 2022, B.C.’s provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry reported on the results of her office’s provincial health order on March 7, 2022 requiring the regulatory colleges and Ministry of Health to coordinate gathering the vaccination status of regulated health professionals in the province....
by BCHC News 0 comment
Provincial health officer continues to recommend but not require mask use by health professionals
In a letter addressed to “Registrars of Colleges for Health Professionals in British Columbia” dated April 1st but only recently made public, Provincial Health Officer (PHO) Bonnie Henry recommends the continued use of medical masks by practitioners and patients/clients in health care settings when there is close, in person patient/client contact.  She...
by BCHC News 0 comment
New hospital admissions for COVID-19 down 18% since last week, total hospitalizations up by 33%
According to the BC CDC’s April 21st weekly reporting of  COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths: hospitalizations have dropped from 289 to 238 and deaths from 37 to 27.  The total number of hospital admissions since the start of the pandemic are 20,585 with the highest number coming from Fraser Health Authority. ...
by BCHC News 0 comment
B.C. is taking steps to make it easier for internationally trained nurses to enter the health care system
The province of B.C. took steps to make it easier for international trained nurses to enter the health care system to meet the increasing demand for nurses in the province.  Together with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM), the Nursing Community Assessment Service (NCAS) and Health Match BC...
by BCHC News 0 comment
Premier John Horgan issues joint statement on six-year anniversary of BC’s deadly overdose crisis
Thursday, April 14, 2022 marked the six-year anniversary of B.C.’s deadly overdoses crisis which was declared a public emergency in 2016 by the previous provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall. The declaration allowed “medical health officers throughout the province to collect more robust, real-time information on overdoses in order to...
by BCHC News 0 comment