Island Health takes control of Comox Valley Seniors Village to ensure residents safety
It took a five-month letter-writing campaign, but Island Health announced Sept. 30 that it would take immediate administrative control of the Comox Valley Seniors Village
Tell us your story! New health care advocacy group asks public for help
A new advocacy group, called Seniors Voices Comox Valley, wants to hear the stories of people who have personal experience with health care, including home care, residential care and respite care.
Violations spark demand for Seniors Village takeover
After three residents died as an indirect result of a norovirus outbreak at Comox Valley Seniors Village earlier this year, a group of family members of the facility’s residents demanded an investigation and better oversight of the facility by Island Health
Ministry continues Liberals’ privatization of health care
George Le Masurier photo By Barbara Biley work for Island Health as a medical transcriptionist at the Comox Valley Hospital.On Jan. 30, all the VIHA medical transcriptionists, in Victoria, Nanaimo, Courtenay and...
Comox Valley seniors group says new beds fall short
Senior Voices Comox Valley says BC Health Minister’s announcement falls short of addressing the community’s urgent need for long-term care beds; beds should have gone to Glacier View Lodge
Providence, Golden Life get new Comox Valley long-term beds
Golden Life Management Corporation and Providence Residential Care Community society will share the Comox Valley’s 151 long-awaited additional residential care beds.
Bishop gifts St. Joe’s Comox site to Providence Health Care
Providence Health Care has acquired The Views at St. Joe’s and formed a new independent entity devoted solely to seniors care. It accelerates movement toward St. Joe’s vision of a dementia village
MAiD: A passing … but not gently into that good night
Lorraine Hudelson wasn’t choosing to die … She was dying anyway. What she chose was when, where and how to die.