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The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) is the public health arm for British Columbia's Provincial Health Services Authority. [2] The BCCDC is located at 655 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC. The Centre has tuberculosis [3] and sexually transmitted infections (STI) clinics [4] as well as outreach clinics in high prevalence areas throughout BC.
The Department of Health and Welfare was formally established on October 1, 1946, with George Pearson as the inaugural minister. [ 6 ] During the first term of the Gordon Campbell government, a separate Ministry of Health Planning was created (led by Sindi Hawkins ) but that ministry was later merged back into the main ministry. [ 7 ]
Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is a publicly funded health service provider in the province of British Columbia.PHSA is unique in Canada as the only health authority having a province-wide mandate for specialized health services, although within British Columbia the First Nations Health Authority is also non-regional and highly dispersed.
A public health emergency was declared in the province on March 17. [7] On June 29, 2021, BC Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth signed Ministerial Order M275 [8] to come into effect at the end of the day on June 30, 2021, ending the province-wide state of emergency since March 18, 2020. [9]
HealthLink BC provides health information services to all regions of British Columbia via its website which contains BC-specific health information and a publicly available database of government-funded and not-for-profit health services and resources in British Columbia; its 8-1-1 telephone number; the BC HealthGuide Handbook, a printed handbook that contains information on common health ...
Interior Health is a regional health authority in British Columbia. It is one of the five publicly-funded regional health authorities, serving the southern Interior region of British Columbia. [ 2 ]
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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. VCH is geographically divided into three health ...