‘No one in our community is disposable’: Island Health and community call on North Cowichan to rethink sheltering sites – The Discourse. Designated overnight sheltering sites in Somenos marsh are ‘increasingly dangerous’, outreach groups say.

Island Health and local groups are urging North Cowichan to reconsider "uninhabitable" shelter sites in Somenos marsh.

Advocates warn that recent displacements are linked to health risks and a spike in overdoses. They’re calling for safer, accessible alternatives. #NorthCowichan #IslandHealth

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🏝️IMSPARK: Older Adults Thrive And Communities Grow 🏝️

#AgingWithDignity, #BluePacific, #CommunityEmpowerment, #EconomicResilience, #ElderWellbeing, #HealthyAging. #Pacific, #IMSPARK, #IslandHealth, #KupunaFirst, #Resilience

Port Alberni’s ICU closed indefinitely, patients diverted to Nanaimo PORT ALBERNI - Island Health cites staff shortages for what it calls a temporary closure of the West Coast Gen...

#IslandHealth has been trying to shut down Port Alberni’s hospital for years. One more step towards it. And #NRGH is always over capacity & our ICU strained, so just more stress on the staff at NRGH.

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@eby-david.bsky.social @josieosborne.bsky.social @garrybeggbc.bsky.social
#IslandHealth
- WHY DOES IH REFUSE TO COLLABORATE WITH Dr's?.
- WHY are Port Hardy Dr's barred from working on call at the hosp???
- WHERE has $30 Mill. gone?
#NoGovernance
#NoOversight
#NoTransparency
#NoAccountabiliy

🏥IMSPARK: A Hospital That Stood Strong in the Storm🏥 Social justice, Digital Equity, Poverty, Accessible Technology, Marginalized communities, Pacific, COFA, Veterans, Low-Income, Affordable housing

www.imagine-pacific.com/2025/10/imsp...

🏥IMSPARK: A Hospital That Stood Strong in the Storm🏥

#DisasterResilience, #HealthcareContinuity, #IMSPARK, #IslandHealth, #PacificSIDS, #PreparednessPlanning, #ResilientCommunities, #ShelterInPlace

📡IMSPARK: No One Left Offline in Health📡 Social justice, Digital Equity, Poverty, Accessible Technology, Marginalized communities, Pacific, COFA, Veterans, Low-Income, Affordable housing

www.imagine-pacific.com/2025/10/imsp...

📡IMSPARK: No One Left Offline in Health📡

CommunityEmpowerment, #HealthAccess, #HealthJustice, #IMSPARK, #InfrastructureMatters, #IslandHealth, #NoDeadZone, #RuralCare, #TelehealthEquity

Island Health and LUSH Valley work together to bring local produce to hospital patients Patients at North Island Hospital, Comox Valley (NIH-CV) are enjoying fresh, locally grown produce from Comox Valley farmers thanks to a new opportunity with LUSH Valley Food Action Society.

"LUSH Valley, which stands for Let Us Share the Harvest, purchases produce from multiple local farms and delivers it to #IslandHealth facilities, making it easier for the health authority to work with smaller growers."

#FeedBC #Procurement #BuyLocal #healthcare

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‘Sustains our ability to continue operating:’ new water system flowing at Gabriola health centre GABRIOLA ISLAND - A vital community facility is now more resilient to drought and is poised to provide clean w...

A new rainwater filtration system is helping secure the long term water needs of the Gabriola Island Health Centre.

#gabriolaisland #islandhealth #watersupply

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Seriously?
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@josieosborne.bsky.social

#islandhealth
#Vancouverisland

🎙️ Episode 2 of Harbouring Hope is here — featuring Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation Board Chair Tony Harris.

#nanaimoanddistricthospitalfoundation #nrgh #islandhealth

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New report from the Office of the Seniors Advocate confirms what families across BC have long feared: the long-term care system Impact of BC & Canadian Politics on Social, Economic, Health, Education, Environment, Employment issues by Liberals, Green Party, NDP, & Conservatives

New report from the Office of the Seniors Advocate confirms what families across BC have long feared: the long-term care system
acuriouslookatpoliticsinbc.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-... #bcpoli #BCSeniors #SeniorsCare #IslandHealth #BCConservatives #BCNDP

If These Walls Could Talk Harbouring Hope · Episode

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#everythingpodcasts #nanaimoanddistricthospitalfoundation #nrgh #islandhealth #podcast

Comox parents call for health-care system changes after death of 11-year-old son Brayden Robbins, an 11-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, died on his second visit in seven days to the ER at Comox Valley Hospital.

What a massive failure by Comox Valley Hospital and @vanislandhealth.bsky.social.

Our health-care system needs to do better, and be better.

cc: @josieosborne.bsky.social @davidebybc.bsky.social

#bcpoli #IslandHealth #VancouverIsland

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👟IMSPARK: Motion as Medicine👟 Social justice, Digital Equity, Poverty, Accessible Technology, Marginalized communities, Pacific, COFA, Veterans, Low-Income, Affordable housing

www.imagine-pacific.com/2025/06/imsp...

👟IMSPARK: Motion as Medicine👟

#ActiveAging, #CulturalWellness, #DementiaPrevention, #GenerationalWisdom, #IMSPARK, #IslandHealth, #Move, #PacificResilience, #Remember

#SaveOurSIIMS
@bcmidwives @vanislandhealth @ncimidwives @canadianmidwives

#HealthEquityIncludesUs #IndigenousBirthMatters #StopErasingIndigenousCare #PerinatalCareBC #IslandHealth #BCHealth #IndigenousHealth #ReproductiveJustice
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🇨🇦 Mental Health struggles increase demand for emergency medicine. Unfortunately, here in #BC, I have discovered that #NorthernHealth, #IslandHealth and most likely other #HealthAuthorities are preventing access to funded #MentalHeathServices by professionals in private practice.
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I'm suffering and I need help but I'm getting ignored They just walked away again Who did The nurses 3 walked past my call light I don't care if they think I'm drug seeking I'm in pain Like 12/10 pain I need help Which hosp RJH

Chronic pain needs better teaching. Daughter has pcos & endometriosis - she tries to deal at home. Bad days she wants to die.
No gyne will do a hyster on her bcz she’s 25. She has no quality of life and asks every Er visit.

#bchealth #islandhealth #chronicpain #endometriosis #pcos

Just loitering around in #porthardy getting ready to host back to back Walk with Me story walks with #islandhealth #toxicdrugcrisis #livedexperience

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#islandhealth
@vanislandhealth.bsky.social

“Your attempts to dissuade and suppress the public advocacy work of physicians demanding evidence-based, life-saving interventions will have harmful consequences for those patients most at risk.” #IslandHealth #Nanaimo #NanaimoRegionGeneralHospital #NRGH

Way to go #Islandhealth.
You're behaviour just cost us 3 doctors.

Do you want to help shape research into how and why health and healthcare for people living in different types of rural communities differs from those living in urban areas? Researchers are looking for people who live in rural and island communities in Scotland and who a) live with or have experienced cancer or a long-term rheumatic or musculoskeletal condition, or b) are over the age of 65 and have been hospitalized at least twice in the past two years, to be part of the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement group for the BRUCES research project. Group members will be compensated for their time. https://bit.ly/BRUCESPPI

Researchers at Aberdeen Uni are looking for ppl in rural & island Scotland to help shape research into healthcare provision for specific medical conditions. Check out the link for more info on the project & how to get involved.

www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/academi...

#RuralHealth #IslandHealth

Ignoring #science won't make it go away.

Good on the doctors here! I'm absolutely DISGUSTED with #IslandHealth & the security guards.

#FightOn! #overdoseprevention

Encouraging news from Island Health in the face of their staffing shortages: "Progress made towards returning south island operating rooms to full capacity" www.islandhealth.ca/news/news-re... #islandhealth #yyj