News
September 22, 2020
Island Health Medical Staff Updates September 22
A summary of updates on the Medical Staff Website.
September 22, 2020
VP Pandemic Planning & Chief MHO Joint Update: September 22, 2020
This past weekend, Island Health’s call centre experienced an unexpected surge in call volume, followed by a full system outage due to technical issues with our service provider on Monday for eight hours. We acknowledge that this combination of events has been challenging for callers and added significant work for our call takers. The outage on Monday also impacted the designated health-care provider line. We are very sorry if this impacted your access to get testing.
September 22, 2020
Register today for Art of Living in the Time of COVID
The 15th annual Lafayette Health Awareness Series will occur virtually on October 1. UVic Chancellor Shelagh Rogers will host Dr. Bonnie Henry, Dr. Steven Taylor and Dr. Terence Tam to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic.
September 22, 2020
No new cases reported today, Island Health total remain at 203
Public Health COVID-19 Status Dashboard-September 22
September 21, 2020
Seven new cases announced today, Island Health total 203
Public Health COVID-19 Status Dashboard-September 21
September 21, 2020
Family Inclusion eLearning
While the literature recommends including family members in a person's health care, we find it challenging. It is not customary practice in health care settings; there are systemic and habitual barriers. We don't know how to do it.
September 21, 2020
Updated: Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prophylaxis for COVID-19
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis for COVID-19 has been updated, with new sections on pharmacologic thromboprophylaxis post discharge, and platelet cut offs for VTE prophylaxis.
September 18, 2020
No new cases reported today, Island Health total remain at 196
Public Health COVID-19 Status Dashboard-September 18
September 18, 2020
NEW! Introduction to Advance Care Planning Webinars
Advance Care Planning information is essential to providing good care to our patients. However, many healthcare providers feel that they don't understand or know enough to engage in these conversations with patients.
September 18, 2020
Urgent and primary care centre coming soon to Victoria
People living in North Quadra, Victoria and surrounding communities will soon have better access to team-based everyday health care with a new urgent and primary care centre (UPCC) opening in November.