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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.
Therapeutic Brief: Crushing Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (PaxlovidTM)
New BCCDC Therapeutic Document: Both ritonavir and nirmatrelvir (components of Paxlovid) can be split or crushed and mixed with apple sauce, pudding or any common food or liquid including dairy-containing products based on Phase I studies demonstrating that suspensions achieve similar pharmacokinetics to whole tablets. These recommendations do not replace clinical judgement
Walking Our Pride -- Commitments and Reflections
Thank you to everyone across Island Health for sharing their PRIDE month photos, for completing the 2LGBTQ+ Learning Pathway and for participating in ongoing self-reflection on the two questions Island Health posed in The Weekly in mid-June.
BCCDC COVID-19 Long Term Care, Assisted Living & Independent Living Report
A weekly update for Long-Term Care, Assisted Living & Independent Living Facilities.
Geographic distribution of COVID-19 by local health area of case residence
Epi-Week 25 Cases June 19 to 25, 2022.