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Get your shots before you travel

VCH health officials urge travellers to get vaccinated before international excursions. Winter Break is coming up and Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) experts are advising travellers not to forget their travel vaccines before heading out on holidays.

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New location for downtown Vancouver Urgent and Primary Care Centre

Vancouver, B.C. – The Vancouver City Centre Urgent and Primary Care Centre (UPCC) is moving to a new and improved space within downtown Vancouver.

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shíshálh Nation and Vancouver Coastal Health celebrate 60 year milestone of Sechelt | shíshálh Hospital

In 1962, leaders from shíshálh Nation gifted a 11.2-acre parcel of land creating a home for the current Sechelt | shíshálh Hospital which opened on November 29, 1964. Today, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), shíshálh Nation and community health care partners came together to celebrate the impact and generosity of this gift with a ceremony and feast.

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Transplant Stories shares ‘raw and real’ moments behind organ transplants

​Behind each person's organ transplant is a powerful story about their journey to that moment and the remarkable work of the health-care professionals supporting them.

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Key hand over complete: step inside the new Paul Myers Tower

​An exciting new milestone has been reached on the Lions Gate Redevelopment project – the key handover to the new acute tower at Lions Gate Hospital (LGH). This milestone is not just about the completion of construction, it's the beginning of a new chapter at the Lions Gate Hospital campus, the coastal communities we serve and a landmark achievement in Vancouver Coastal Health's journey toward enhancing patient care.

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Welcome Figures will greet all at Lions Gate Hospital

​Creating safer spaces is a critical part of the work we do to support Indigenous clients, patients and families to feel comfortable, seen and valued. The creation of two Welcome Figures to be located at the main entrance of the new acute care tower at Lions Gate Hospital (LGH) acknowledges the traditional and unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) on which the hospital is built.

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