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May 16, 2022 11:34 AM
BC Government funds more for-profit long-term care homes
Recently, the BC Government announced they will contract Kaigo Senior Living to build and operate 90 new for-profit long term care beds in Vernon BC. This is in complete contradiction...
May 10, 2022 2:37 PM
Community Victory! BC Provides Health Coverage for People with Maintained Status
This community update is reposted with permission from Sanctuary Health. Click here to read the original...
April 20, 2022 1:27 PM
B.C. spends at least $27M at private clinics to catch up on surgical backlog
March 10, 2022 1:36 PM
Keeping community health in community hands
March 9, 2022 10:07 AM
Provinces using investor-owned for-profit clinics to cut wait times heading towards predictable failure
The symptoms of Canada’s strained health care system are well known by now. We see headlines about the shortages of doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals. Burnout rates, already a...
March 8, 2022 3:33 PM
Health Coalition seeks progress on Safe Long-Term Care Act in 2022 Budget
Initially posted by the Canadian Health Coalition. View original, posted on February 16, 2022. The Canadian Health Coalition has delivered the following letter to Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, calling for...
February 1, 2022 4:14 PM
One step closer to a "Safe Long-Term Care Act"
It has been well over a year since Prime Minister Trudeau first committed to set national long-term care standards. With the recent release of a new draft national standard...
January 31, 2022 4:11 PM
How did "Big Pharma" delay cheaper drug prices, again?
Reposted with permission from the Canadian Health Coalition. View original, initially posted on January 24, 2022. It was the day before Christmas Eve when the government issued Continue reading
January 31, 2022 3:59 PM
Global solidarity for universal public health care
BC Health Coalition participates in international panel on universal health care The NC Medicare for All Coalition and the...
January 11, 2022 11:28 AM
BC's Crisis Lines will stay in not-for-profit hands!
BC Health Coalition members know too well that Request For Proposal (RFP) processes run a high risk of contracting out public and non-profit services to private, for-profit, companies. So in...