Patients across the Island Health region are benefiting from quicker, higher-quality magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans powered by artificial intelligence (AI) software following successful pilot projects in Nanaimo. Trina Gulay, medical imaging manager at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (NRGH), highlighted some of the key benefits of the AI-assisted approach. “We […]
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The largest ever single-item campaign in the Nanaimo District Hospital Foundation’s history has come to an end on the best possible note. Through more than 1,400 individual and group donations, the Foundation managed to raise $2.9 million for a new SPECT/CT scanner at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (NRGH), including $1.8 […]
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Nanaimo-Lantzville’s MLA is stressing to his government’s health minister the need for a cardiac cath lab and new patient tower at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. MLA George Anderson’s letter to B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne was addressed in the spring and posted to social media last week. It was also sent to B.C. Infrastructure Minister Bowinn Ma and Nanaimo […]
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Estimated wait times at several Island emergency care facilities are now available online. Island Health has launched a new page on their website which provides regularly updated estimates of wait times at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and other Island hospital emergency departments. Thirteen facilities are included in the new data, which […]
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U.S. health-care workers are flocking to Nanaimo, and at least one told The Discourse their move is a direct spin-off from the Nanaimo Infusion event that welcomed hundreds of American visitors to the city this spring. Brandy Frye is a registered nurse from Califorina who was in Nanaimo this week with her […]
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Novari Health is working with Island Health to implement its Medical Imaging Requisition Management (MIRM) technology across Vancouver Island. The deployment of Novari MIRM will enable 16 Island Health sites to more efficiently manage the receipt, processing, workflows, and wait list management associated with inpatient and outpatient community referrals for […]
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Big news from the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital! Some of the much-anticipated equipment for the High Acuity Unit (HAU) has arrived! Watch Jane Marriott, Clinical Lead for ICU/HAU at NRGH, share this inspiring update and what it means for patient care in our community. Click here to see the video!
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Shortly after returning home from an extended South Pacific winter vacation, I developed what turned out to be a life-threatening bout of pneumonia which saw me spending 10 days of intense treatment in the acute treatment ward of the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. My purpose in writing is to acknowledge […]
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This year’s Tim Hortons Smile Cookie campaign is raising funds for a SPECT-CT scanner at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. From Monday, April 28, to Sunday, May 4, all proceeds from Smile Cookie at Nanaimo-area Tim Hortons will go to the Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation toward the purchase of the […]
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NANAIMO — Our public healthcare system is in crisis, and whoever forms the next federal government must take steps to address it. Those calls were made by Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and Hospital Employees Union (HEU) reps during a Monday, April 14 news conference outside Nanaimo hospital, voicing demands for […]
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