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BCCDC COVID-19 Long Term Care, Assisted Living & Other Residential Outbreak Report
A weekly update for Long-Term Care, Assisted Living & Other Residential Living Facilities.
Ethics Lunch & Learn July 13 2022!
The LAST Lunch & Learn of the summer is here! Join Dr. Jeff Kerrie and Karen Shufelt today at noon in an engaging clinical ethics discussion.
WCGH Goes Live with Electronic Clinical Documentation
West Coast General Hospital (WCGH) staff are celebrating a smooth and successful IHealth go-live with electronic clinical documentation. Serving a population of 18,000 people in the Alberni Valley, staff at WCGH made the move to electronic “ClinDoc" on June 27.
Updated: Practice Tool #3 -Drug Interactions and Contraindications
Updated from the BCCDC with new guidance on managing the interaction between apixaban and nirmatrelvir/ritonavir. Most resources now support drug modifications for the duration of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir treatment and 2 additional days after the treatment finishes (as opposed to 3).
ROGERS Cellular Network Outage Nationwide, PROBLEM
Rogers has been experiencing a Canada-wide service outage since this morning, which is impacting all cellular devices that are connected through Rogers as the provider. This outage is impacting incoming and outgoing cellular calls and other cellular related services – and has the potential to disrupt our scheduling and on-call operations.
COVID-19 Situation Report
This BCCDC report provides weekly data and refers to pandemic phases defined by population-level changes.
Town Hall Summary - July 5, 2022
Thanks to the 320 staff and medical staff who joined our Town Hall on Tuesday, July 5th to hear the latest organizational updates from senior leaders. Here's a recap.
Primary Care Update
Newsletter highlights include: Omincron Subvarients and Monkeypox in British Columbia, Dr. Réka Gustafson will join Island Health in September 2022 as Vice President, Population & Public Health and Chief Medical Health Officer, this and more.
Long-term Care Newsletter - JULY 2022
Here's a quick peek at some of the topics covered in the July LTC newsletter: Island Health's new Philosophy of Care, There's a D.R.S. in every completed R.A.I., Welcoming a new CNE on board - Stephanie Garbutt! and more.