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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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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The province’s spending priorities for the year ahead apparently do not include a pair of promised significant local projects. Neither a catheterization lab for cardiac care, nor a new patient tower at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (NRGH) were line items in the document presented by finance minister Brenda Bailey on Monday, March […]
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Nanaimo Regional General Hospital has a new chair, and she says it’s time to put healthcare first not just for the residents in the city, but for everyone north of the Malahat. Janice Perrino, who is also a city councillor, will succeed Ian Thorpe after seven years of service to […]
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Nanaimo city council gladly moved to give an exemption to building height limitations so construction on the hospital’s new cancer centre could continue to move ahead. Click here to read the full article!
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September 6, 2024, is the deadline to submit your abstracts for Quality Forum 2025. This is your chance to share what you’ve been working on and join us as a rapid fire or storyboard speaker during the main Forum programming on March 12-13. In 300 words or less, tell us […]
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The Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation says facilities from the North, and Central Island will be getting their share of over $1.8 million. According to a media release, the money was raised as part of the Winter Giving Campaign, with 1,800 donors contributing to the foundation, making it the largest […]
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