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Category: Communications

May 3, 2025May 6, 2025Communications, Media

LETTER: Huge thanks to our Island health care professionals

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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April 29, 2025April 29, 2025Communications, Media

Smile Cookie campaign a bake sale for a SPECT-CT scanner in Nanaimo

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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March 5, 2025Communications, News

‘Hugely disappointed:’ Nanaimo hospital cath lab, patient tower absent in B.C. budget

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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March 3, 2025March 3, 2025Communications, News

Time to push the province to prioritize healthcare for all, new Nanaimo Hospital chair

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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February 28, 2025Communications, News

Nanaimo city council has no problem with over-height cancer centre

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 5, 2024Communications

Last Chance to Submit Your Abstracts for Quality Forum 2025

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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January 24, 2024Communications, Media, Success Stories

Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation break donation record

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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January 9, 2024Communications, Media

Health minister expects even bigger demands on health-care system in 2024

B.C. will see more people in hospital beds in January than ever before, as post-pandemic fallout combines with the peak of respiratory illness season, says Health Minister Adrian Dix. The increased demand for hospital beds comes amid challenges including the ongoing toxic-drug overdose crisis, now in its eighth year, a […]

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January 1, 2024January 3, 2024Communications, Media

B.C. blood banks need 1.5K donors by next week, Canadian Blood Services says

Glenn Bailey donated blood for the 200th time on Monday at a mobile clinic in Sidney. He does it regularly, every chance he gets, “I’ve been working at it for a lot of years—early ‘70s, actually late ‘70s I guess it was when I started,” said Bailey from a donor […]

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December 30, 2023January 3, 2024Communications, Media

Island Health still recovering from pandemic-caused shortages, looking ahead for 2024

More beds and doctors are coming to Island communities in the New Year, after a challenging 2023 for health care. In a year-end letter, Leah Hollins, chair of Island Health’s board of directors, says the health authority is still dealing with ripple effects from the pandemic. Royal Jubilee and Victoria […]

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