| Recovery is possible - growing the Tree of Remembrance | <img alt="" src="/news-stories-site/PublishingImages/OD-Day-Joanna-Luu-Jillian-Richman-Theresa-Newlove-web.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Recovery is possible - growing the Tree of Remembrance | On August 31, International Overdose Awareness Day, BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre staff and patients marked the occasion by wearing purple to honour those we've lost to overdoses and spread the message that recovery is possible. | http://www.bcwomens.ca/about/news-stories/stories/recovery-is-possible-growing-the-tree-of-remembrance | | 2021-09-09T07:00:00Z | | |
| Together, we can do it | <img alt="" src="/news-stories-site/PublishingImages/FIR-overdose-main-web.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Together, we can do it | The FIR (Families in Recovery) team at BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre supports women and people affected by substance use and their newborns amid the deadly overdose crisis in B.C. We can prevent overdoses if we all work together. | http://www.bcwomens.ca/about/news-stories/stories/together-we-can-do-it | | 2021-08-31T07:00:00Z | | |
| Armed with information: A new interactive online tool aims to change birth and delivery conversations in B.C. | <img alt="" src="/news-stories-site/PublishingImages/Liz%20Wilcox%20-%20edited.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Armed with information: A new interactive online tool aims to change birth and delivery conversations in B.C. | Did you know that B.C. has the highest caesarean birth rates in Canada? The My Next Birth tool helps patients and their care providers decide whether another C-section is right for them. | http://www.bcwomens.ca/about/news-stories/stories/my-next-birth-tool | | 2021-08-04T07:00:00Z | | |
| How penicillin allergy de-labeling is making a difference | <img alt="" height="395" src="/news-stories-site/PublishingImages/Drop-the-label.png" width="530" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | How penicillin allergy de-labeling is making a difference | Ten per cent of patients in North American studies report having a penicillin allergy label but 90 per cent of these people do not have a true allergy. Read how one tool is helping with penicillin allergy de-labeling. | http://www.bcwomens.ca/about/news-stories/stories/how-penicillin-allergy-de-labeling-is-making-a-difference | | 2021-07-29T07:00:00Z | | |
| How to breathe easy during wildfire season when pregnant | <img alt="" src="/news-stories-site/PublishingImages/GettyImages-1008287944.jpg?RenditionID=1" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | How to breathe easy during wildfire season when pregnant | Increasing temperatures and dry weather over the summer months have contributed to the rise in wildfires across the province. | http://www.bcwomens.ca/about/news-stories/stories/how-to-breathe-easy-during-wildfire-season-when-pregnant | | 2021-07-15T07:00:00Z | | |
| Tips for pregnant people to stay safe during the summer heat wave | <img alt="" src="/news-stories-site/PublishingImages/GettyImages-1226112459.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Tips for pregnant people to stay safe during the summer heat wave | Pregnant people are more likely to get heat exhaustion or even heat stroke than the general public. Read the advice from a BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre expert. | http://www.bcwomens.ca/about/news-stories/stories/tips-for-pregnant-women-to-stay-safe-during-the-summer-heat-wave | | 2021-07-02T07:00:00Z | | |
| Impactful words from the Director of Indigenous Health, Dr. Jenny Morgan | <img alt="" src="/news-stories-site/PublishingImages/Jenny%20Morgan%20Sep%202016%20-%20Copy%20(2).jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Impactful words from the Director of Indigenous Health, Dr. Jenny Morgan | Jenny is from the Gitxsan First Nations, Clan member of the Lax Gibuu fr Anspayaxw + Gitwangax and she talks about how she came to work at BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre and BC Children's Hospital, and what she hopes for the hospitals’ future. | http://www.bcwomens.ca/about/news-stories/stories/impactful-words-from-our-director-of-indigenous-health-dr-jenny-morgan | | 2021-06-21T07:00:00Z | | |
| New resource honours Indigenous women’s resilience | <img alt="" src="/news-stories-site/PublishingImages/Lucy%20resized.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | New resource honours Indigenous women’s resilience | Indigenous aunties, mothers, grandmothers, daughters and sisters, came together with health organizations to build a practice resource on culturally safe and trauma-informed perinatal health care for Indigenous people and families. | http://www.bcwomens.ca/about/news-stories/stories/new-resource-honours-indigenous-women’s-resilience | | 2021-06-18T07:00:00Z | | |
| Your Voice Matters | <img alt="" src="/news-stories-site/PublishingImages/weltel_baby_1.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Your Voice Matters | Thank you to the 332 patients and family members who visited outpatient services at BC Children’s and BC Women’s Hospitals and completed the Virtual Care Patient Experience Survey. | http://www.bcwomens.ca/about/news-stories/stories/your-voice-matters | | 2021-06-11T07:00:00Z | | |
| Nurses - #WeAnswerTheCall | <img alt="" src="/news-stories-site/PublishingImages/BCW-collage-web.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Nurses - #WeAnswerTheCall | BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre nurses and health care providers have gone beyond the call of duty, providing the best possible care through a global pandemic and an opioid crisis. Read how they answer the call this Nursing Week. | http://www.bcwomens.ca/about/news-stories/stories/nurses-weanswerthecall | | 2021-05-12T07:00:00Z | | |
