| Information for patients on person charged with fraud after working at BC Women’s | <img alt="" src="/news-stories-site/PublishingImages/GettyImages-1134320030.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Information for patients on person charged with fraud after working at BC Women’s | The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) has communicated directly with all potentially impacted patients who are confirmed to have received care from this individual. | http://www.bcwomens.ca/about/news-stories/stories/information-for-patients-on-person-charged-with-fraud-after-working-at-bc-women’s | | 2021-12-08T08:00:00Z | | |
| BC Women’s anesthesiologist sings national anthem at Canucks’ home opener | <img alt="" src="/news-stories-site/PublishingImages/abdulla.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | BC Women’s anesthesiologist sings national anthem at Canucks’ home opener | You may have caught BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre Anesthesiologist Dr. Sadiq Abdulla singing the national anthem at the Canucks vs. Minnesota Wild game in Vancouver. Read how he ended up front and centre at the home opener. | http://www.bcwomens.ca/about/news-stories/stories/bc-women’s-anesthesiologist-sings-national-anthem-at-canucks’-home-opener1 | | 2021-11-09T08:00:00Z | | |
| Everyone has a role to protect, promote and support breastfeeding | <img alt="" src="/news-stories-site/PublishingImages/Stock_mother_baby_mask.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Everyone has a role to protect, promote and support breastfeeding | This National Breastfeeding Week, October 1-7, learn some important ways each of us can help support and sustain practices that safeguard breastfeeding in B.C. | http://www.bcwomens.ca/about/news-stories/stories/national-breastfeeding-week | | 2021-10-01T07:00:00Z | | |
| 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 | | |
| 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 | | |
