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Chris Unrau was surrounded by political support when she travelled to Victoria to press the case for transplant patients. Premier David Eby and local MLA Roly Russell were there to back her up. (Contributed)

Princeton woman in need of transplant brings health care disparities to Victoria

Premier, MLA, meet with Chris Unrau

 

Christine and Arlen Unrau, in a picture taken three years ago, as Christine began her journey towards transplant. Photo Go Fund Me.

Princeton woman fears she can’t afford to pay for double lung transplant

Province providing little funding for required post-operative care

 

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix signs the renewed Fraser Partnership Accord at the Shxwhá:y Village Cultural Centre on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

VIDEO: Health accord tackles Indigenous-specific racism in Fraser Salish

‘Collaborative approach allows Indigenous voices to be part of change,’ says Grand Chief Charlie

 

A cooling tower at a B.C. ice rink. Cooling towers that lack proper maintenance can harbour legionella bacteria. (Black Press Media files)

Fraser Health tracking Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in Langley

No deaths from pneumonia caused by bacteria carried by water droplets

A cooling tower at a B.C. ice rink. Cooling towers that lack proper maintenance can harbour legionella bacteria. (Black Press Media files)
Using a portion of Peace Arch Hospital for filming is ‘completely unacceptable’ when health care should be the priority, says Surrey White Rock MLA Trevor Halford. (Black Press Media file photo)

MLAs slam use of Lower Mainland hospital for filming instead of health care

‘Our health system is not in great shape. It’s never been worse’: Trevor Halford

Using a portion of Peace Arch Hospital for filming is ‘completely unacceptable’ when health care should be the priority, says Surrey White Rock MLA Trevor Halford. (Black Press Media file photo)
Kim Wood, member of the peer support pilot project at Chilliwack General Hospital. (Fraser Health)

Peer support for substance users at Chilliwack hospital a first in B.C.

‘Once you tell someone you’ve been there, it helps bring down the walls,’ says peer support worker

Kim Wood, member of the peer support pilot project at Chilliwack General Hospital. (Fraser Health)
Jill Hall has this radon mitigation system installed in the crawl space of her Chilliwack home. Hall is a non-smoker who was diagnosed with lung cancer and is now warning people of the risks of radon. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

Cancer-stricken B.C. Realtor calls on public health to take action on radon

Jill Hall has been sounding alarm since some Chilliwack homes found to have elevated levels of radon

Jill Hall has this radon mitigation system installed in the crawl space of her Chilliwack home. Hall is a non-smoker who was diagnosed with lung cancer and is now warning people of the risks of radon. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
Fraser Health has launched its virtual psychiatric unit September 2023. It’s the first of its kind in B.C. and had admitted and discharged 140 patients so far. (Fraser Health)

Fraser Health launches 1st virtual psychiatry unit in B.C.

It operates the like a brick-and-mortar hospital, but patients are in the comfort of their own home

Fraser Health has launched its virtual psychiatric unit September 2023. It’s the first of its kind in B.C. and had admitted and discharged 140 patients so far. (Fraser Health)
Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry looks on as Health Minister Adrian Dix speaks during a press conference at provincial legislature in Victoria, Aug. 23, 2021. Dix and Henry are confirming the province’s first case of a new COVID-19 variant in the province as of Aug. 29, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

B.C. confirms 1st case of new COVID variant

Province says a person in Fraser Health has been infected with the BA.2.86 variant of Omicron

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry looks on as Health Minister Adrian Dix speaks during a press conference at provincial legislature in Victoria, Aug. 23, 2021. Dix and Henry are confirming the province’s first case of a new COVID-19 variant in the province as of Aug. 29, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
The view from Eagle Bluffs on August 13, 2023. (Photo: Anna Burns)

Heat exhaustion can sneak up on you, so know the signs

Signs include heavy sweating, severe headache, muscle cramps and extreme thirst

The view from Eagle Bluffs on August 13, 2023. (Photo: Anna Burns)
The new five-storey care home facility is expected to be completed by 2027. (City of Abbotsford photo)

New long-term care home coming to Abbotsford

Five-storey facility set to begin construction in 2025 and be completed by 2027

The new five-storey care home facility is expected to be completed by 2027. (City of Abbotsford photo)
File - In this April 16, 2019, file photo, a researcher holds vape pens in a lab at Portland State University in in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer, File)

Teen test-shoppers help Fraser Health stop tobacco, vape products sales to minors

Health authority seeing more vapour products being sold as popularity rises among teens

File - In this April 16, 2019, file photo, a researcher holds vape pens in a lab at Portland State University in in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer, File)
Surrey Memorial Hospital in Surrey on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. (Photo: Anna Burns)

Letter calls out resource crisis at Surrey hospital: 1 newborn death, ‘countless misses’

Letters demand funding and resources for Surrey Memorial Hospital

Surrey Memorial Hospital in Surrey on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. (Photo: Anna Burns)
Surrey Memorial Hospital emergency department entrance in March 2021. A new online dashboard shows estimated emergency department wait times in the Lower Mainland, and on Tuesday (May 30, 2023), Surrey Memorial had the longest wait by far at more than eight hours. (Lauren Collins)

New dashboard shows wait times for Lower Mainland emergency departments

People can view estimated wait time and expected length of stay

Surrey Memorial Hospital emergency department entrance in March 2021. A new online dashboard shows estimated emergency department wait times in the Lower Mainland, and on Tuesday (May 30, 2023), Surrey Memorial had the longest wait by far at more than eight hours. (Lauren Collins)
An asthma inhaler. Kevin Liang, a family doctor in the Fraser and Vancouver Coast healthy authorities, was part of a Fraser-Health led study in the BC Medical Journal found that between 2016 and 2021, inhalers produced 8,478 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the Fraser Health region alone. (Pixabay photo)

A 139-km car trip: Fraser Health working to reduce climate impact of inhalers

B.C. doctor wants to educate people about switching to HFA-free inhalers

An asthma inhaler. Kevin Liang, a family doctor in the Fraser and Vancouver Coast healthy authorities, was part of a Fraser-Health led study in the BC Medical Journal found that between 2016 and 2021, inhalers produced 8,478 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the Fraser Health region alone. (Pixabay photo)
FILE - Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Feb. 8, 2022, on youth mental health care. Widespread loneliness in the U.S. is posing health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults say they’ve experienced loneliness, Murthy said in a new, 81-page report from his office. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Loneliness poses risks as deadly as smoking: surgeon general

Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking…

FILE - Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Feb. 8, 2022, on youth mental health care. Widespread loneliness in the U.S. is posing health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults say they’ve experienced loneliness, Murthy said in a new, 81-page report from his office. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Parents of two-year-old Gracie Ackley said her condition steadily worsened while they spent hours waiting for assistance at the Langley Memorial Hospital ER on Jan. 26. (Ackley family - used with permission)

Parents say they waited hours for help at B.C. ER while their daughter’s condition worsened

‘What is wrong with our health care system?’ mom asks

Parents of two-year-old Gracie Ackley said her condition steadily worsened while they spent hours waiting for assistance at the Langley Memorial Hospital ER on Jan. 26. (Ackley family - used with permission)
Bonita and Don Findlay pictured on a trip in Italy in 2005. (Photo: Anna Burns)

B.C. widow grateful MAID allowed her husband to die with dignity, compassion

Woman recalls experience as changes loom over who can access medically assisted death

Bonita and Don Findlay pictured on a trip in Italy in 2005. (Photo: Anna Burns)
A family member holds Ruth Harris’s hand in Vancouver General Hospital. (Submitted)

Questions about care after Abbotsford woman’s burns not taken seriously

Third-degree burns on elderly woman’s legs not given priority at ARH, but they were at Vancouver General Hospital

A family member holds Ruth Harris’s hand in Vancouver General Hospital. (Submitted)
Buena Vista Lodge, a mental health facility with 12 beds, has been in operation in White Rock for over 50 years. The beds at the facility are funded by Fraser Health, but that funding will cease in June once the facility has been sold to a new owner. (Unsplash photo)

B.C. residential mental health facility to close over lack of funding

Owner worried over fate of residents as Fraser Health declines to enter contract with new owner

Buena Vista Lodge, a mental health facility with 12 beds, has been in operation in White Rock for over 50 years. The beds at the facility are funded by Fraser Health, but that funding will cease in June once the facility has been sold to a new owner. (Unsplash photo)