Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority serves the 1.25 million of British Columbia's population of five million (approximately one in four) who live in a geographic area of 58,560 square kilometres (22,610 sq mi) that includes 12 municipalities, four regional districts and 14 Aboriginal communities.
Oak Care Centre (formerly George Pearson Centre) is a long term residential care facility located in the Marpole neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, and is currently owned and operated by Vancouver Coastal Health. [1] George Pearson Centre was initially named after former BC Minister of Health, George S. Pearson, and renamed in 2025. [2]
In 2001, the Vancouver/Richmond Health Board was re-structured to become part of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, which includes "Richmond Health Services" as the local umbrella organization. [6] The hospital is currently part of Richmond Health Services and is now known simply as "Richmond Hospital" (without the preceding "The").
Providence Health Care is a Catholic health care provider that operates two hospitals in British Columbia, both of which are located in Vancouver. [12] These hospitals are operated in cooperation with Vancouver Coastal Health and the Provincial Health Services Authority. [13]
Providence Health Care is a Catholic [1] health care provider that operates seven facilities in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.. Providence Health Care was formed through the consolidation of CHARA Health Care Society, Holy Family Hospital and St. Paul's Hospital on April 1, 1997.
Also located at UBC Hospital is the Brain Research Centre, a partnership of the UBC Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. The Brain Research Centre employs more than 200 investigators with multidisciplinary expertise in neuroscience research ranging from the test tube, to the bedside, to industrial spin-offs.
Lions Gate Hospital (LGH) is a 268-bed medical facility located in North Vancouver, British Columbia. The hospital is part of and operated by Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), the regional health authority for the North Shore.
The VHHSC is the second largest hospital in Canada, with 1,900 beds and nearly 116,000 patients each year. VHHSC employs 9500 staff and utilizes 1000 volunteers. As of 2005, the hospital's annual budget is $463 million. It is managed by Vancouver Coastal Health.