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June 13 2023

New practice tool reduces unnecessary testing for surgical patients

​The reduction in preoperative group and screen testing has resulted in 9,000 fewer trips to medical labs at procedural hospitals in the days leading up to surgery and saved the health system $225,000 over three years.

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May 26 2023

Vancouver Coastal Health and Teck Partner to Study How Bacteria-killing Copper Can Reduce the Risk of Infection Transmission in Long-term Care Homes

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), Teck Resources Limited and VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation are partnering to study how antimicrobial copper can be used to prevent infections and improve health outcomes in three long-term care homes across the VCH region. Funded by Teck, it will be the first study of its size in Canada.

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February 9 2023

Her heart matters: New report shows risks to women’s heart health

A new Heart & Stroke report shares that gaps in awareness, research, diagnosis and care threaten women's heart and brain health. Heart disease and stroke claimed the lives of 32,271 women in Canada in 2019 – one woman's life every 16 minutes.

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October 1 2021

Copper pilot project expands to phase two, onboarding new partners and new locations

Antimicrobial copper coatings have now been installed on high-touch transit surfaces in Ontario on TTC vehicles and in British Columbia on TransLink vehicles.

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March 5 2021

The results are in — copper kills up to 99.9% of bacteria on transit surfaces

This week, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), TransLink and Teck announced the results of phase one of the copper pilot project – a first-of-its-kind trial that studies the use of bacteria and virus-killing copper products on high-touch surfaces on transit.

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November 12 2020

VCH partners with TransLink for new copper pilot project

This week, Vancouver Coastal Health, TransLink and Teck announced a first-of-its-kind project that will pilot the use of bacteria and virus killing copper and organosilane on high-touch surfaces on transit.

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