@ndp.ca MPPs @jamiewestndp.bsky.social and #FranceGelinas hosted a press event at which they accused ON Premier Doug Ford of putting profits over people by allowing the closure of the #GreaterSudbury #LifeLabs analysis lab. Delayed results could be deadly.
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Residents of #GreaterSudbury won't be pleased. #LifeLabs says it will proceed w closing its local specimen processing lab this spring, despite fierce opposition from local leaders. The Sudbury lab also analyzes samples for points throughout #NorthernOntario.
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#LifeLabs has said they plan to close their specimen processing sites in #GreaterSudbury. Local leadership is upset. Mayor Paul Lefebvre, and MPPs Jamie West NDP and France Gélinas have all spoken out against the decision, and want #QueensPark to intervene.
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New Study Shows Over 84% of Golfers Prefer Cool-Tech Apparel for Comfort and Performance #United_States #San_Francisco #golf_apparel #LifeLabs #CoolLife
Anybody know why #LifeLabs #BC is cancelling appointments willy-nilly? I have had future appointments cancelled, which I booked way in advance of the holidays and, hilariously, notifications of cancellation of ten past appointments. Anyone else? #Cancellations
#Canada #CanadaSky #CdnPoli #MadeinCanada
I just found out #Lifelabs is US owned. I go to the lab at the local hospital... Qualified unionized people did all my tests with good humour and efficiency. As a drop in I was in and out within one hour.
#Socializedmedicine for the win!!
I'll also add that there is access to #lifelabs and parking behind the building where they could load their samples.
This image is a screen capture from google maps - there are two vans half on the curb (but mostly) and in the bike lane
Me vs the #Lifelabs van several days a week 😣 (today being the most recent)
It is 9:30 AM and my hubby just finished bloodwork Xrays and EKG at #CowichanDistrictHospital. It would have taken to 11:30 at the for profit #Lifelabs.
We taxpayers pay extra for the PROFIT Lifelabs make.
#Canada #healthcare #bchealthcare
#BritishColumbia
#Healthcare
#Lifelabs
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@josieosborne.bsky.social
1/11
👉 LIFELABS STRIKE IN B.C. ENDS, CONCERNS REMAIN 👈
Isaac Phan Nay reports after 10 weeks of rotating strikes, LifeLabs workers have a new contract with 11.3-20% wage increases over three years. But BCGEU president Paul Finch says blood tests should be public, not privatized.
#LifeLabs #BCHealth
#LifeLabs #Strike #BritishColumbia #healthcare #healthcareworkers #BCGEU #CanLab #BCLab
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If the government doesn’t want to take medical health labs back, there is a first step. Break up the monopoly. Allow independent, BC-based businesses to run labs. It’s how we take it back.
To hand over lab testing to a monopoly was a mistake from the start.
#bcpoli #lifelabs #healthcare […]
If your doctor gives you a blood work requisition labeled #Lifelabs, just take it to the hospital.
That is a super easy way to boycott America, and private for-profit Healthcare.
And health authority should be promoting the existence of their outpatient labs all the time, but I think they […]
I think both Alberta and British Columbia should be investigated.
BC's healthcare contract with American owned #LifeLabs is a glaring example of Canadian Healthcare dollars feeding a now unfriendly country's business.
@eby-david.bsky.social
Can you please address the #LifeLabs situation? The Ontario Teachers Assoc. sold LifeLabs to an American company. Canadians, who rely on LifeLabs services, weren't asked about the sale but are now forced to use an American company.
#tariffs #BritishColumbia #elbowsup
Error message from a blood lab: Failed to Add Sorry your information could not be validated. One or more of these items may not match the laboratory record: Last Name Spelling, spacing, and punctuation all must match exactly First Name Initial Lab Visit Date Lab Visit Number This number may include one or more letters as well as numbers Please review your lab visit number carefully before entering it Date of Birth Health Card Number Case ID: ########
Waiting blood work from #LifeLabs and the "registration section" (I thought I was registered, as I have been a client for over a decade, but none of my past results are there) and I get this error ... I had to open up a ticked because ALL THE INFO is right!
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Please - if you live in BC, show your support for LifeLabs employees. Keep your hands off our healthcare!
#bcgeu #lifelabs #keephealthcarepublic
Visited some of my fave LifeLabs folks on the line at the branch I always go to! Spirits high and determined to get the deal they deserve! @bcgeu.bsky.social #lifelabs #solidarity !
#Canadian #LifeLabs was bought by US giant, Quest Diagnostics in 2024. LifeLabs is contracted to do labwork in B.C. and Ontario. Since then quality of care has rapidly declined in favour of profit. US Medical CEOs are trying to make our Canadian medical system mirror theirs. #Never51 #Resist @BCGEU
Stay strong, #LifeLabs! #UnionStrong
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I've seen how hard these staffers work -- you should be looking after them #Lifelabs www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This is what happens when you #PrivatiseHealthcare in #BeautifulBritishColumbia
Perhaps cut off funding to private labs like #LifeLabs and pour that money back into the health authorities 🤔
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It took #Lifelabs three techs and an hour to leech the blood out of me.
They stabbed me 3 times after I told them my veins were shot and that my left hand was going to be the only place they were doing to have luck.
Idiots.
Getting blood work in BC is like going on a full-on day trip 😴. I think the staff here really need administrative assistants so they don’t have to keep switching roles #LifeLabs.
