Fraser Health

File - In this April 16, 2019, file photo, a researcher holds vape pens in a lab at Portland State University in in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer, File)

Teen test-shoppers help Fraser Health stop tobacco, vape products sales to minors

Health authority seeing more vapour products being sold as popularity rises among teens

 

Surrey Memorial Hospital in Surrey on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023. (Photo: Anna Burns)

Letter calls out resource crisis at Surrey hospital: 1 newborn death, ‘countless misses’

Letters demand funding and resources for Surrey Memorial Hospital

 

Surrey Memorial Hospital emergency department entrance in March 2021. A new online dashboard shows estimated emergency department wait times in the Lower Mainland, and on Tuesday (May 30, 2023), Surrey Memorial had the longest wait by far at more than eight hours. (Lauren Collins)

New dashboard shows wait times for Lower Mainland emergency departments

People can view estimated wait time and expected length of stay

 

The new internal medicine unit at Abbotsford Regional Hospital. (Fraser Health photo)

New internal medicine unit added to Abbotsford Regional Hospital

New unit is third to join Fraser Health hospitals and is expected to help improve patient care

The new internal medicine unit at Abbotsford Regional Hospital. (Fraser Health photo)
An asthma inhaler. Kevin Liang, a family doctor in the Fraser and Vancouver Coast healthy authorities, was part of a Fraser-Health led study in the BC Medical Journal found that between 2016 and 2021, inhalers produced 8,478 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the Fraser Health region alone. (Pixabay photo)

A 139-km car trip: Fraser Health working to reduce climate impact of inhalers

B.C. doctor wants to educate people about switching to HFA-free inhalers

An asthma inhaler. Kevin Liang, a family doctor in the Fraser and Vancouver Coast healthy authorities, was part of a Fraser-Health led study in the BC Medical Journal found that between 2016 and 2021, inhalers produced 8,478 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the Fraser Health region alone. (Pixabay photo)
FILE - Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Feb. 8, 2022, on youth mental health care. Widespread loneliness in the U.S. is posing health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults say they’ve experienced loneliness, Murthy said in a new, 81-page report from his office. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Loneliness poses risks as deadly as smoking: surgeon general

Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking…

FILE - Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Feb. 8, 2022, on youth mental health care. Widespread loneliness in the U.S. is posing health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults say they’ve experienced loneliness, Murthy said in a new, 81-page report from his office. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
The Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation has issued an appeal on behalf of Fraser Health’s Integrated Homelessness Action Response Teams. (Submitted photo)

Fraser Valley homelessness care teams need a little support from community

Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation issues appeal for IHART teams

The Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation has issued an appeal on behalf of Fraser Health’s Integrated Homelessness Action Response Teams. (Submitted photo)
Abbotsford Mayor Ross Siemens walks through the Abbotsford Entertainment Centre on April 2 to help raise money for the Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation. (Ellen Nguyen Photography)

Step Up for Cardiac Health event raises $34,000 for Abbotsford Regional Hospital emergency room chairs

Event had to be postponed when a snowstorm arrived on original date, but supporters still stepped up

Abbotsford Mayor Ross Siemens walks through the Abbotsford Entertainment Centre on April 2 to help raise money for the Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation. (Ellen Nguyen Photography)
A long-awaited, international medical study recently published in the Lancet was made possible partly due to Abbotsford hospital patients and staff. (Fraser Health photo)

Abbotsford hospital patients and staff behind new information on protein needs for critically ill

Lancet study sheds new light on protein needs of critically-ill patients

A long-awaited, international medical study recently published in the Lancet was made possible partly due to Abbotsford hospital patients and staff. (Fraser Health photo)
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My Family Doctor award from BC College of Family Physicians celebrates doctor-patient relationship

Nominations are open until March 31, with BCCFP award recipients announced in May.

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Parents of two-year-old Gracie Ackley said her condition steadily worsened while they spent hours waiting for assistance at the Langley Memorial Hospital ER on Jan. 26. (Ackley family - used with permission)

Parents say they waited hours for help at B.C. ER while their daughter’s condition worsened

‘What is wrong with our health care system?’ mom asks

Parents of two-year-old Gracie Ackley said her condition steadily worsened while they spent hours waiting for assistance at the Langley Memorial Hospital ER on Jan. 26. (Ackley family - used with permission)
Bonita and Don Findlay pictured on a trip in Italy in 2005. (Photo: Anna Burns)

B.C. widow grateful MAID allowed her husband to die with dignity, compassion

Woman recalls experience as changes loom over who can access medically assisted death

Bonita and Don Findlay pictured on a trip in Italy in 2005. (Photo: Anna Burns)
Members of the Crystal Gala Foundation, which fundraises to improve access to breast cancer screening in the Fraser Valley. (Submitted)

Crystal Gala Foundation makes donations to improve breast cancer screening in Chilliwack and Abbotsford

Funds from October’s gala event given to Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation for equipment

Members of the Crystal Gala Foundation, which fundraises to improve access to breast cancer screening in the Fraser Valley. (Submitted)
Maureen Keyes with her mom, Ruth Harris, at Vancouver General Hospital. (Maureen Keyes/Submitted)

Questions about care after Abbotsford woman’s burns not taken seriously

Third-degree burns on elderly woman’s legs not given priority at ARH, but they were at Vancouver General Hospital

Maureen Keyes with her mom, Ruth Harris, at Vancouver General Hospital. (Maureen Keyes/Submitted)
Chilliwack-Kent MLA Kelli Paddon announces complex-care spaces coming to Chilliwack on Dec. 13, 2022. (Jennifer Feinberg/Chilliwack Progress)

22 complex-care spaces coming to Chilliwack next year in multi-use housing project

‘It’s a new way of doing things that looks at the whole person,’ MLA Paddon said about complex care

Chilliwack-Kent MLA Kelli Paddon announces complex-care spaces coming to Chilliwack on Dec. 13, 2022. (Jennifer Feinberg/Chilliwack Progress)
Dana Martin (left), Sandy Mather (right) of Soroptomist International of Chilliwack gathered at The Rendezvous restaurant Wednesday (Nov. 16) to assemble and fill Christmas packs for unhoused women. (Eric J. Welsh/ Chilliwack Progress)

Chilliwack service club packs Christmas gift bags for women experiencing homelessness

‘We’re grateful for these comforts to provide to people in our community,’ says Fraser Health official

Dana Martin (left), Sandy Mather (right) of Soroptomist International of Chilliwack gathered at The Rendezvous restaurant Wednesday (Nov. 16) to assemble and fill Christmas packs for unhoused women. (Eric J. Welsh/ Chilliwack Progress)
Buena Vista Lodge, a mental health facility with 12 beds, has been in operation in White Rock for over 50 years. The beds at the facility are funded by Fraser Health, but that funding will cease in June once the facility has been sold to a new owner. (Unsplash photo)

B.C. residential mental health facility to close over lack of funding

Owner worried over fate of residents as Fraser Health declines to enter contract with new owner

Buena Vista Lodge, a mental health facility with 12 beds, has been in operation in White Rock for over 50 years. The beds at the facility are funded by Fraser Health, but that funding will cease in June once the facility has been sold to a new owner. (Unsplash photo)
Pamela Garrity, 77, has been confined to a wheelchair since falling out of bed in late September, and relies on a Sarastand (right) to get in and out of bed, get on and off the toilet and do other things. (Eric J. Welsh/ The Progress)

Chilliwack senior felt ‘absolute despair’ after Fraser Health no-show

Confined to wheelchair, woman was twice left sitting in incontinence underwear for 20-plus hours

Pamela Garrity, 77, has been confined to a wheelchair since falling out of bed in late September, and relies on a Sarastand (right) to get in and out of bed, get on and off the toilet and do other things. (Eric J. Welsh/ The Progress)
Photo courtesy SFUSD

Fraser Health offering ‘exciting’ bivalent booster vaccine against COVID-19

Doctor says ‘it should help your body to mount an immune response against a variety of strains of COVID-19’

Photo courtesy SFUSD
Fraser Health opened several vaccination clinics, including this one in Chilliwack seen here on Sept. 26, 2022, where residents can receive a COVID-19 booster dose this fall, including the Omicron (bivalent) booster. (Paul Henderson/ Chilliwack Progress)

Fraser Health opens vaccination booster clinics across the region

Omicron bivalent boosters available in Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Hope, Agassiz and elsewhere

Fraser Health opened several vaccination clinics, including this one in Chilliwack seen here on Sept. 26, 2022, where residents can receive a COVID-19 booster dose this fall, including the Omicron (bivalent) booster. (Paul Henderson/ Chilliwack Progress)