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    • Bella Coola
    • Castlegar and District Hospital Foundation
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    • Cortes Island
    • East Shore Kootenay Lake
    • Fernie – Elk Valley Hospice Society
    • Fort Nelson
    • Fort St. John
    • Fraser Lake
    • Greater Trail Hospice Society
    • Hedley/Vancouver
    • Hornby and Denman Islands
    • Invermere – Hospice Society of the Columbia Valley
    • Kaslo and Area D
    • Kaslo – Hospice Society of North Kootenay Lake
    • Langley/BC Association of Community Response Networks
    • Nakusp
    • Nanaimo
    • Nelson
    • New Denver Hospice Society
    • Nuu-chah-nulth
    • Oliver – Desert Valley Hospice Society
    • Pender Harbour Health Centre
    • Pender Island Health Care Society
    • Powell River
    • Princeton
    • Quadra Island Health Society
    • Revelstoke Hospice Society
    • Roberts Creek/Sunshine Coast
    • Salmon Arm
    • Salt Spring Island Community Health Society
    • Sicamous
    • Sicamous Municipality
    • Silverton
    • Slocan Chamber of Commerce
    • Sorrento
    • South Shuswap
    • Sunshine Coast Resource Centre Seniors Planning Table
    • Trail
    • UBC – Centre for Rural Health Research – RER
    • Valemount
    • Valemount
    • Rural Coordination Centre of BC
    • Village of New Denver
    • Village of Slocan
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  • News Articles
    • ALZHEIMERS/DEMENTIA
      • Learning to forget: From Alzheimer’s to acceptance
    • AMBULANCE SERVICES
      • B.C. acting to improve ambulance response times, support emergency workers
      • B.C. paramedics call on-call service model ‘flawed’
      • B.C. heat wave leads to 11-hour ambulance wait time, spike in sudden deaths
      • B.C. paramedic staffing now ‘critical’ as ambulance wait times reach 2 hours: union
      • Crisis in ambulance service extends into rural B.C.
      • Paramedic Crisis: ‘You will get some sort of mental health injury, it’s just a matter of time’
      • Stabilizing paramedic staffing in rural and remote British Columbia
    • Community Health Centres
      • Opinion: Community health centres needed to improve primary care in B.C.
    • COVID-19
      • A behind-the-scenes look at why Canada delayed 2nd doses of COVID-19 vaccines
      • As Delta spread, Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness against infection fell from 90% to 66% in one key study
      • Canada’s top doctor calls for ‘structural change’ to address COVID-19 inequities
      • Canada’s public health data meltdown
      • COVID-19 breakthrough cases signal next phase of Canada’s battle
      • COVID-19’s fourth wave will be rehabilitation
      • COVID-19 outbreak at British Columbia long-term care home includes vaccinated residents
      • Delayed second Pfizer-BioNTech shot produces more antibodies, U.K. study says
      • Dying for love: Disconnection in the time of COVID-19
      • Expert bashes BC for COVID-19 Data Gaps
      • Florida doctor: This devastating Covid surge didn’t need to happen
      • From mu to C.1.2, here are the latest coronavirus variants scientists are watching closely
      • Grief support programs: teaming up to achieve more
      • ICU deaths fall at St. Paul’s
      • Is it OK to mix and match different vaccines?
      • Joint Statement on Misleading COVID-19 Information – College of Physicians and Surgeons B.C. & First Nations Health Authority
      • Life after COVID
        • How Cities, Travel, and Families Will Change
        • What will life be like after the coronavirus pandemic ends?
        • Will our world ever be the same?
        • When Will COVID-19 Be Over
      • Mandatory vaccination: legal, justified, effective?
      • Mixing COVID-19 vaccine doses leads to more reactions, study finds, which may be ‘first sign of success’
      • Nanaimo doctor warns B.C.’s critical care is reaching capacity
      • Ottawa proposes $7B top-up to transfers for health care, infrastructure
      • Parents of kids with long-COVID warn that children can develop severe symptoms
      • People More Likely to Keep Their Distance If You’re Wearing a Mask
      • People with dementia among hardest hit by COVID-19 health restrictions
      • Seniors suffering from total isolation in B.C. care homes
      • Surgeon sounds the alarm. ‘By far the worst it’s been’: Kelowna doctor says KGH is being hit by wave of surgery cancellations
      • The Fourth Wave Is Crushing Nurses and Other Health-Care Workers
      • The Myth of Universal Health Care
      • The pandemic has exposed Canada’s internet problem
      • The Second COVID-19 Shot Is a Rude Reawakening for Immune Cells
      • The year of the pandemic has busted the myth that Canada values its seniors
      • This is your brain on pandemic: What chronic stress is doing to us
      • Western provinces driving Canada’s 4th COVID-19 wave as physicians warn cases ‘out of control’
      • Why Canada’s decision to delay 2nd doses of COVID-19 vaccines may not work for everyone
      • When Will COVID-19 Be Over
      • Why countries are moving so quickly on COVID-19 booster shots — and what Canada should do next
      • Why it might be best to avoid painkillers as a precaution before your COVID-19 vaccine
      • Why reports of COVID-19 infections after 2 vaccine doses aren’t cause for alarm
      • Why restricting AstraZeneca vaccines in Canada means balancing ‘vaccine risk vs. disease risk’
      • Why rushing COVID-19 booster shots for everyone could do more harm than good
    • DISCRIMINATION in HEALTHCARE
      • After Years of Denial, BC and Vancouver Commit to Gathering Race-Based Data
      • Canadian nurses are leaving in droves, worn down by 16 merciless months on the front lines of COVID-19
      • Canadian province investigates racist ‘game’ played by hospital staff
      • Fear of racism deters many Indigenous people from seeking medical treatment, says health-care leader
      • Indigenous people lack access to health care because of systemic racism, report says
      • In Plain Sight – Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in B.C. Health Care
      • Joyce Echaquan ‘had bruises everywhere,’ family tells coroner as inquest continues
      • Nurses fired after Atikamekw woman said they ‘humiliated’ her while she sought treatment
      • Racial bias reaches tipping point in Canada’s healthcare system
      • The Death of Joyce Echaquan
    • DRUGS/ADDICTION
      • Can medical marijuana help combat the opioid epidemic? Maybe not, new study finds.
      • Daphne Bramham: Decriminalization is no silver bullet, says Portugal’s drug czar
      • Doctor-prescribed addiction: How these Canadians got hooked on opioids
      • Indigenous experts share harm reduction strategies at first-of-its-kind forum in Calgary
      • Robson Valley opioid clinic needed: local doctors
    • ENVIRONMENT
      • Nurses and Doctors Take Aim at BC’s LNG Ambitions
    • FIRST NATIONS, ABORIGINAL, MÉTIS
      • Eliminate Racism Against Indigenous Peoples in the Healthcare Systems
      • FNHA, FNHC, FNHDA Support Investigation into Systemic Racism
      • FNHA – Virtual health care services
      • Joint statement on B.C. Indigenous human rights legislation passing unanimously Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation
      • JOURNEY TO RECONCILIATION
      • Provinces, territories urged to follow B.C. and investigate systemic racism in health care
      • Results Released from Expanded First Nations Health and Wellness Survey
    • HOSPITALS
      • B.C. hospital housekeepers, food-service workers being brought back under public sector
    • INTERVIEWS
      • Rural citizen health councils empower communities: BC researchers
    • LONG TERM CARE
      • Andrew Longhurst: B.C. needs to significantly boost supply of public assisted living for seniors
      • COVID-19 Has Exposed the Perils of ‘Financialized’ Seniors’ Care
      • COVID-19 outbreak at British Columbia long-term care home includes vaccinated residents
      • Dr. Eric Cadesky: B.C. doctors working to improve care for residential-care patients
      • Every Voice Counts: Provincial Residential Care Survey Results
      • Family Councils
        • Family Councils in Long Term Care
      • It’s time for governments to listen to workers in long-term care homes
      • New long-term care standards will fall flat without money or enforcement, experts warn
      • On the Sunshine Coast, an Effort to Reinvent Senior Care
      • Out-of-date for-profit long-term care homes had highest number of COVID-19 outbreaks
      • Palliative Care has been lacking for decades in long-term care
      • The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the “place blindness” that causes policy-makers to overlook the specific needs and potential of rural Canada.
      • The Fix – New Program for Ontario Nursing Home
    • NURSES
      • Canadian nurses are leaving in droves, worn down by 16 merciless months on the front lines of COVID-19
      • The Fourth Wave Is Crushing Nurses and Other Health-Care Workers
    • NURSE PRACTITIONERS
      • Nurse practitioners say they’re underutilized in a stressed system
    • PHARMACARE
      • All Canadians deserve pharmacare, not just MPs – Dr. Nav Persaud
      • Broadbent Institute – Letter to Premier Horgan and Minister Adrian Dix
      • Canada has the key to lowering drug prices. Here’s why it won’t be used any time soon
      • Canada’s Unions welcome first steps on pharmacare – CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS
      • Canadians support pharmacare and it’s time to get on with making it a reality
      • Canada’s Unions welcome first steps on pharmacare
      • Cities & States Sue Big Pharma Targeting the Firms who Profited from Peddling Addictive Opioids
      • Don’t buy pharma’s lies about a universal pharmacare program – Steve Morgan
      • Government adds pharmacists into primary and community care
      • National drug care plan funding announcement creates more questions
      • Pharma companies could be forced to reveal payments to B.C. doctors
      • Too many Canadians can’t afford their medication
      • Universal Pharmacare and Federalism – Institute for Research on Public Policy
      • Universal pharmacare benefits business and working families
    • PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
      • Letter to the Editor – TIMES COLONIST
      • Why physician assistants can help revolutionize healthcare in B.C.
    • PHYSICIAN SHORTAGE
      • Healthcare workers in Alberta are looking outside their province for jobs.
      • Let’s declare a family-practice emergency
      • Letter to the Editor – TIMES COLONIST
      • Patients searching for family doctor at new Langford urgent care centre disappointed
      • The Vancouver Island doctor shortage, explained
      • Why physician assistants can help revolutionize healthcare in B.C.
    • PRIMARY HEALTHCARE
      • A Family Doctor’s Prescription for Fixing Primary Care
      • BC Health Coalition Applauds the new Team Based Primary Health Care Strategy
      • Life expectancy grows with supply of primary care doctors
      • Patients searching for family doctor at new Langford Urgent Primary Care Centre leave disappointed
      • Study: Primary Care Doctors Increase Life Expectancy, But Does Anyone Care?
      • Quebec’s winter clinics far from the panacea promised by health minister.
    • PRIVATE For PROFIT/Corporations
      • Advocates demand end to extra billing, upset over 15.9 million federal claw back
      • A Family Doctor Prescription Fixing Primary Care
      • A Welcome Second Chance for BC Medicare Protection
      • Careful, Canada: What Ireland has learned about two-tier health care
      • Charter challenge issue strike at the heart of the priniciples of medicare
      • China Caring for our Seniors
      • Corporations Want Your Health Records. Who’s Keeping Them Safe?
      • COVID-19 Has Exposed the Perils of ‘Financialized’ Seniors’ Care
      • How BC Can Fix Primary Health Care, With or Without Corporations
      • Judge’s decision expected in constitutional challenge of B.C.’s Medicare Protection Act
      • Judge rules against private care for patients as four-year B.C. trial challenging universal health system end
      • July 10, 2019 Cambie Case Update – BCHC
      • New, privatized health clinic will weaken public system: analyst
      • Private health-care is all about doctor profits, federal lawyer tells B.C. court
      • Private virtual health services are booming in a ‘policy vacuum’
      • Profits Before Patients? The Corporate Push into BC’s Primary Care System
      • Surgical backlog must not be fixed at the expense of the healthcare system
      • Telus Health ignored Alberta’s privacy laws when it launched Babylon app, reports reveal
      • The secret moves to increase private health care
      • US doctor in Canada: Medicare for All would have made America’s COVID response much better
      • What Happens When Health Care Becomes a Stock Market Play?
      • Why Are Corporations Moving into Health Care? Doctors Say It’s the System’s Fault
      • Why are we letting corporate medicine take hold in Vancouver’s new urgent care centres?
    • RURAL/REMOTE
      • Citizen voices critical for rural health care: researchers
      • New UBC chair determined to improve health care for B.C.’s rural residents
      • Rural Canadians face greater disparities from lack of anesthesia care, doctors say
      • Rural residents spending $2,200 in travel per medical condition: survey
      • Rural Site Visit Project
      • The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the “place blindness” that causes policy-makers to overlook the specific needs and potential of rural Canada.
      • UBC receives $750K TD Ready Challenge grant to deliver health care supplies by drone to remote B.C.
    • SENIORS
    • Social Determinants of Health
    • The Fix – New Program for Ontario Nursing Home
    • TRANSPORTATION
      • BC-wide transit and business incentives could fill rural transport gaps
    • URGENT PRIMARY CARE CENTRES (UPCCs)
      • Barely a year after finally finding a family doctor, these Victoria patients have lost theirs
      • Why are we letting corporate medicine take hold in Vancouver’s new urgent care centres?
      • Opinion: Community health centres needed to improve primary care in B.C.
      • New, privatized health clinic will weaken public system: analyst
      • Patients searching for family doctor at new Langford Urgent Primary Care Centre leave disappointed
      • Quebec’s winter clinics far from the panacea promised by health minister.
      • What is an Urgent and Primary Care Centre? Ministry of Health
    • VIRTUAL CARE
      • Apple Struggles in Push to Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy
      • Can remote consultations with a doctor be improved?
      • Corporations Want Your Health Records. Who’s Keeping Them Safe?
      • Health record company pays hospitals that use its algorithms
      • Private virtual health services are booming in a ‘policy vacuum’
      • Profits Before Patients? The Corporate Push into BC’s Primary Care System
      • Some family doctors in B.C. now accepting new patients
      • Telus Health ignored Alberta’s privacy laws when it launched Babylon app, reports reveal
      • Thirteen things you need to know about the people trying to end Canadian health care as we know it.
      • What Happens When Health Care Becomes a Stock Market Play?
      • Where Telemedicine Falls Short
    • WAIT TIMES
  • BCRHNetwork Newsletters
    • October 2021
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    • August 2021
    • July 2021
    • June 2021
    • May 2021
    • April 2021
    • March 2021
    • February 2021
    • January 2021
    • December 2020
    • November 2020
    • October 2020
    • September 2020
    • August 2020
    • July 2020
    • June 2020
    • May 2020
    • April 2020
    • March 2020
    • February 2020
    • January 2020
    • December 2019
    • October/November 2019
    • September 2019
    • August 2019
    • July 2019
    • June 2019
    • April 2019
    • March – 2019
    • Feb – 2019
  • Resources
    • A Billion Reasons to Care – Office of the Seniors Ombudsman
    • Action for Reform of Residential Care (ARRCBC) Association
    • Addiction
      • Addiction/Overdose – A List of BC Sites
      • Addiction Rehab Treatment
      • Doctor-prescribed addiction: How these Canadians got hooked on opioids
      • Moms Stop the Harm
    • Aging Out: moving toward queer and trans competent care for seniors.
    • Alzheimer’s & Dementia
      • Alzheimer’s Association
    • A Pathway to Hope: A roadmap for making mental health and addictions care better for people in British Columbia
    • Are you the Victim of a Prescribing Cascade?
    • BC Academic Health Science Network
      • About the BC AHSN
      • A Journey Through Public & Patient Engagement in Health Research: A Road Map
    • BC Ambulance Response Map
    • BC Association of Community Health Centres
    • BC Centre for Palliative Care
    • BC Emergency Health Services
      • B.C. acting to improve ambulance response times…
    • BC Health Coalition
      • Save Canada’s Public Health Care
    • BC Healthy Communities
    • BC Ministry of Health
      • What is an Urgent and Primary Care Centre? Ministry of Health
    • BC Patient Advisory Committee (Patient Voices Network)
    • BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
    • BC Primary Health Care Research Network
    • BC Residential Care Facilities Quick Facts Directory
    • Canadian Doctors for Medicare
    • Canadian Virtual Hospice
    • Caring for Older Adults
    • Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (Australia)
    • Choosing Wisely – Policy Ideas for Limiting Low Value Care in Canada
    • Citizen Patient Community Participation in Health Care Planning 2019
    • Community Health Centres
      • Identifying the Features and Impacts of Community Health Centres – McMaster University
      • What Are Community Health Centres?
    • Community-Level Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Health Care Providers to Rural and Remote Areas
    • COVID-19
    • CPC Participation in Health Care Planning
    • Delivery models of rural surgical services in BC (1996-2005)
    • Drugsearch
    • General Practice Services Committee (GPSC)
    • Family Councils
    • First Nations/Aboriginal/Métis
      • BCGEU guide to First Nations acknowledgement, protocol & terminology
      • In Plain Sight Addressing Indigenous-specific and Racism in B.C. Health care
      • Virtual Health Care Services to First Nations people in BC
      • Virtual Health Care Services to First Nations people in BC
    • Free online presentation on medication safety for older adults and their caregivers
    • Government of B.C.
      • Health Gateway
      • Health Link BC
    • Government of Canada
      • Government of Canada COVID-19 Resources
      • Taking care of your mental and physical health during the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Healthcare Travelling Roadshow
    • Healthy Aging CORE
    • Health Sciences Association
    • Home Support – Office of the Seniors Advocate BC
    • Hospice Care
      • Hospice Care Alliance of British Columbia
      • Canadian Virtual Hospice
      • Hospice Care in British Columbia: The Path Forward
    • How to Establish Intergenerational Groups in Your Community
    • Local Evidence for Health Planning through a Rural Lens
    • Long Term Care
      • Health Standards Organization (HSO)
      • National Long-Term Care Services Standard
    • Michael Smith Foundation
    • Moms Stop the Harm
    • Nav-CARE – Navigating life and aging with chronic illness
      • Funding Opportunity
    • News Releases
    • Patient Engagement
      • IAP2 Spectrum of Engagement
      • Patient Voices Network/BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
    • Patient Medical Homes
    • Patients Travelling From Urban Geographies To Rural Hospitals For Procedural Care: A Realist Consideration
    • Physician retention and recruitment outside urban BC (Thommasen, 2000)
    • Plan H (BC Healthy Communities Society)
    • Policy Brief – RER
    • Putting Our Minds Together: Research and Knowledge Management Strategy
    • Resources for students
      • UBC Graduate Certificate in Primary Health Care
    • RISE (Rural & Isolated Support Endeavor)
    • Roadmap to a CHC in BC – BCACHC
    • Rural Evidence Review Project/Centre for Rural Health Research – Survey
    • Rural Health Councils – Policy Brief
    • Rural Health Services Research Network
    • Rural Coordination Centre of BC
    • Rural Site Visit Project
    • Select Standing Committee on Health – Looking Forward – 2017 Report
    • Seniors Advocate – Quick Facts Report 2018
    • Seniors Advocate – Residential Care Facilities – Directory 2018
    • Seniors Advocate – Residential Care Survey
    • Seniors helping seniors
    • Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
    • SOS Primary Care Network Issues Paper
    • SOS Primary Care Network Report
    • Statement on Cultural Safety and Humility – FNHA
    • Stigma Free Society
    • The BC Rural Centre
    • The British Columbia Patient-Centred Care Framework
    • The Primary Care Network Indigenous Engagement and Cultural Safety Guidebook
    • The Rural Road Map
    • UNBC Health Research Institute
    • Virtual Care
      • What Matters To You?
      • Virtual Care Guide for Patients
      • New data-driven dashboard highlights how patients benefit from virtual health visits
      • Canadian Virtual Hospice
      • HEiDi – Virtual Physician COVID-19 Deployment
      • RUDi – Rural Urgent Doctors in-aid
    • UBC Rural Evidence Review aims to identify highest-priority health needs in rural BC communities
    • Workforce retention in rural and remote Australia
    • Youth Mental Health
  • Reports/Research
    • 2020 Rapid Survey Findings on Rural Community Challenges and Technology Use during COVID-19
    • BCPSQC Evaluation Report 2018/19 – “What Matters to You?”
    • BCRHN AGM 2020
    • BCRHN Report to Ministry of Health on CHC Policy Development
    • CACHC -Community Health Centres & COVID-19 Impact and Experiences from the Pandemic
      • Community Health Centres & COVID-19 Impact and Experiences from the Pandemic
    • Canadian Association for Long Term Care
      • Long-Term Care’s Perfect Storm. 30 Years of under investment & COVID-19
    • Canadian Red Cross & National Institute on Ageing
      • Recommendations to Improve Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery for Older Adults Across Canada
    • Centre for Rural Health Research
      • Citizen-Patient-Community Participation in Health Care Planning….
      • Out-of-Pocket Costs for Rural Residents When Travelling for Health Care: Results From a Province Wide Survey in British Columbia – July 2020
      • Rural Responses to COVID-19 Survey Findings (Summary) – May 2021
    • Commonwealth Report 2021
    • Community Health Centres
      • Identifying the Features and Impacts of Community Health Centres – McMaster University
      • The Importance of Community Health Centres – What the Research Tells Us
    • COVID
      • COVID-19: learning as an interdependent world
      • Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Vaccines in Preventing Delta Variant Infection Among Nursing Home Residents …..
      • Pandemic Preparedness – Auditor General of Canada
      • World Happiness Report 2021 – The Effects of COVID-19
    • Citizen-Patient-Community Participation in Health Care Planning
    • Entrepreneurial Activities of Rural Coalitions in Advancing Access to Healthcare 2017
    • Home Support – Seniors Advocate
    • Hospice Care
      • Hospice Care in British Columbia: A Current State Assessment
    • In Hospitals, housekeepers are truly the ‘keepers of the house’.
    • Isobel MacKenzie – Monitoring Seniors Services reports
    • Long Term Care
      • A Higher Standard in LTC Homes
      • Assisted Living in BC – Trends February 2020
      • Cost Estimate for Motion 77: Improvements to Long-Term Care
      • Care Outcomes in Long Term Care Facilities in BC
      • FAMILY COUNCILS
        • A Study of Family Councils in Nursing Homes
        • Family Councils in Long Term Care
      • Findings from HSO’s Inaugural National Survey on Long-Term Care
      • From Residential Care to Hospital: An Emerging Pattern Aug 2018
      • Long-Term Care Facility Workers’ Perceptions of the Impact of Subcontracting on their Conditions of Work and the Quality of Care
      • Long-Term Care’s Perfect Storm – 30 Years of Underinvestment & COVID-19
      • Residential Care Facilities BC Quick Facts 2018
      • Restoring Trust: COVID-19 and The Future of Long-Term Care
      • The Place of Assisted Living in BC’s Seniors Care System
      • The rural tax: comprehensive out-of-pocket costs associated with patient travel in British Columbia
    • McMaster Optimal Aging Portal: Healthy Aging Research
    • Mental Health
      • Access to Adult Tertiary Mental Health and Substance Use Services – Auditor General Report
      • Youth Mental Health Report RCCbc
    • Ministry of Health – Putting Our Minds Together – Dec 2017
    • Pharmacare
      • National Pharmacare
      • Final Report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare
    • Physician Assistants (PAs)
      • A systematic review: The role and impact of the physician assistant in the emergency department
      • The contributions of physician assistants in primary care systems
    • Physician Shortage in Canada
      • A Review of Contributing Factors
    • Policy Discussion between BCRHN and MoH June 2018
    • Privatization in Health Care
      • Privatization the pre-existing condition killing seniors in long-term care
      • Long-Term Care Facility Workers’ Perceptions of the Impact of Subcontracting on their Conditions of Work and the Quality of Care
      • Contracting-Out Care in Nursing Homes
      • Under-regulated, under-researched and largely privatized: Assisted living seniors’ care in BC
      • Privatization and Declining Access to BC Seniors’ Care
      • Continuing to defend public health care – Cambie case
    • Provincial Health Care Partners’ Planning Retreat – Summary Report April 2019
    • Putting Out Fires – Use of Patient Complaints to Drive Improvements 2018
    • Report on the Health Sciences Association Conference April 2018
    • Report on the Policy Discussion between BCRHN and MoH 2018
    • Rural Health Equity
    • Rural/Remote
      • BC Rural and First Nations Health and Wellness Summit Summary Report
      • Community Factors and Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Health Care Providers to Rural and Remote Areas
      • Highest Priority Health Needs in Rural Communities
      • Highest Priority Health Needs in Rural BC Communities 2019
      • Out-of-Pocket Costs for Rural Residents When Traveling for Health Care
      • Physician Retention and Recruitment Outside Urban British Columbia 2000
      • Priorities for BCRHN
      • Review of Family Medicine in Rural/Remote Canada
      • Rural Health Services Research Network May 2018 Conference
      • Rural Road Map – Society of Rural Physicians
      • Rural Site Visit Project
      • Workforce Retention in Rural and Remote Australia 2002
    • Rural use of health service and telemedicine during COVID-19: The role of access and eHealth literacy
    • Transportation
      • Accelerating Rural Transportation Solutions – Ontario
      • Out-of-Pocket Costs for Rural Residents When Traveling for Healthcare
      • Seniors Transportation Report – Seniors Advocate McKenzie
      • UBC Rural Evidence Report
    • SOS Division – PCN Issues Paper September 2019
    • SOS Division – PCN Report September 2019
    • The rural tax: comprehensive out-of-pocket costs associated with patient travel in British Columbia
    • The ‘Whole-of-Person Retention Improvement Framework’
    • Virtual Care
      • Study shows HEIDI is an effective complement to 811
  • Blogs, Bulletins & Presentations
    • A Bridge to Action
    • A Word about First-Person Language
    • Complicated gratitude: a letter to my mother’s physician
    • COVID-19
      • BCRHN Presentation to Select Standing Committee on Finance – 2020
      • The effects of isolation on the physical and mental health of older adults
      • The Medical Futurist
      • World Happiness Report 2021 – The Effects of COVID-19
    • Four Things the Media got Wrong about Mental Illness
    • How can we define rural?
    • The Medical Futurist
    • The Social Bubble Blog
  • Petitions
    • Doctors Without Borders
      • COVID-19 vaccine – commit to fair and equitable vaccine access for all people in all countries
    • LeadNow.ca – Sign the open letter in support of healthcare workers
    • National Pharmacare
      • Take Action for Pharmacare
    • Seniors and Long Term Care
      • Forward Together – A Canadian Plan
      • Action for Reform in Residential Care
      • Make Seniors Care part of our Public Healthcare System
      • Fix Long Term Care – CUPE
      • Support Our Elderly in LTC and Seniors’ Care Homes
      • Seniors Deserve Better | BC-GEU
    • Transportation
      • Remove Financial Barriers for Rural British Columbians Seeking Healthcare Services
      • Let’s Ride! Make Public Transit BC Wide
      • Publicly funded national bus service
  • Conferences/Workshops/Webinars
    • BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
      • Quality Forum 2022
    • BC Rural Health Research Exchange
    • Health Excellence Canada
      • Shaping the Future of Care Closer to Home for Older Adults – October 12, 13 and 15, 2021
    • United Way
      • Provincial Summit on Aging. October 19, 2021
  • Videos/Podcasts
    • Advance Care Planning in B.C.
    • alumniUBC
      • On social determinants and health
    • B.C. acting to improve ambulance services response times….
    • BC Support Unit
      • Partnerships in Patient-Oriented Research
      • The Role of the Patient Engagement Methods Cluster
    • Canadian Association of Physician Assistants – Why BC needs PAs
    • Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)
      • Complicated Gratitude for MAiD
    • Canadian Virtual Hospice
    • Centre for Rural Health Research (CRHR)
      • Centre for Rural Health Research – Interview with Ed Staples & Nienke Klaver
      • Innovation from the Edges
    • College of Family Physicians of Canada/Society of Rural Physicians of Canada – THE RURAL ROAD MAP
      • The Rural Road Map for Action
    • Community Health Centres
      • Kootenay Boundary Division/Community Health Centres
      • Learning from other jurisdictions
      • The situation in B.C.
    • COVID-19
      • How COVID-19 has affected First Nations communities
      • Restoring Trust – COVID 19 and the future of Long Term Care
    • Doctors of BC Podcasts
    • Heart of Home – How Hornby Island developed their community home care for elders
    • Interviews
      • Stigma Free Society: Interview with Edward Staples
    • Is your Mom on drugs? Are you?
    • Keepers of the House
    • Lung X-rays of COVID-19 patients
    • Medicating Normal
    • Moms Stop the Harm
    • Mount Waddington
    • NavCARE – Navigating life and aging with chronic illness
    • Rural Canadians still struggle with poor internet connectivity, despite promises to fix it
    • Rural Coordination Centre of BC (RCCbc)
      • RCCbc/BC Rural Health Research Exchange
      • RCCbc – Rural Site Visits and Innovations
      • Health Care Leaders’ Planning Retreat – 2019
    • Senior Care Homes
      • What you should know – Vancouver Sun
  • Solutions/Improvements
    • 24/7 mental health support on the way for post-secondary students
    • Action plan to provide faster care for people with Parkinson’s
    • A welcome second chance for BC medicare protection – Colleen Fuller
    • BC Government News
      • B.C. acting to improve ambulance response times, support emergency workers
      • B.C. moving private home support services back into health authorities
      • Government adds pharmacists into primary and community care
      • B.C. government’s primary health-care strategy focuses on faster, team-based care
      • B.C. government will be implementing strategies that will increase access to surgeries such as hip and knee replacement.
      • Government expanding coverage for insulin pumps, eliminating age restriction
      • Interior getting 495 new long-term care beds
      • Legislation will prohibit payment for blood and plasma collection
      • New beds, support to help more people access addictions and recovery care
      • BC to improve access to dental care with $3.6 million to non-profit clinics
    • B.C. hospital housekeepers, food-service workers being brought back under public sector
    • B.C. should allow physician assistants
    • Better Connected: How Low-orbit Satellite Internet Can Pave Way for Health Equity
    • Budget gets thumbs up from Seniors Advocate
    • Chris Pengilly: Let’s declare a family-practice emergency
    • CODI is live
    • Cyber patients are training the world’s future doctors
    • Doctors and health providers treat loneliness by prescribing yoga and crochet lessons
    • Drug Delivery by Drone
    • Dr. Eric Cadesky: B.C. doctors working to improve care for residential-care patients
    • Free up money to solve doctor shortage – Perry Kendall
    • Green Armband Program – Denman/Hornby Discharge Planning
    • Health Workers Celebrate Repeal of Bill 29 and Bill 94
    • Hip and knee surgeries
    • Hospital at Home program – Victoria
    • How Ontario’s next government could relieve overcrowded hospitals
    • Keeping doctors in communities: A success story in BC’s north
    • New UBC chair to advocate for rural health care in B.C.
    • NORCS – Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities
    • North Vancouver’s HealthConnection Clinic lauded for its innovative approach in treating vulnerable patients
    • On the Sunshine Coast, an Effort to Reinvent Senior Care
    • Nuu-chah-nulth healing practices introduced to health care staff in Tofino
    • Palliative Care Training for Paramedics
    • Pharma companies could be forced to reveal payments to B.C. doctors
    • Project aims to help with transition from homelessness to housing
    • Public Health Care Solutions to Surgical Wait Times
    • Pups Assisting Wellness for Staff (P.A.W.S.)
    • Rising to the Challenge: How BC’s Community-Based Seniors’ Service Agencies Stepped Up During COVID-19
    • Rural Innovations and Site Visits Website – RCCbc
    • Solutions in sight for Parksville Qualicum Beach doctor shortage
    • Specialist Doctors for Princeton B.C.
    • Specialists for Princeton Project
    • Thunder Bay’s Rapid Access Clinic for hip, knee conditions cuts wait times from years to weeks
    • The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the “place blindness” that causes policy-makers to overlook the specific needs and potential of rural Canada.
    • The Fix: Dementia Project in Peel
    • Travelling Roadshow
    • Two private MRI outpatient clinics purchased by Fraser Health
    • UBC Master of Occupational Therapy program expands to northern BC
    • UBC receives $750K
    • Universal Pharmacare and Federalism
    • Vancouver health authority ends contract with private surgery centre over patient-pay issues
    • Victoria hospital offers innovative same-day hip and knee replacement surgery
    • Victoria increases respite care for home caregivers by $75 million
    • Virtual program brings specialists, ER doctors to remote B.C. communities 24/7
    • Volunteer-run medical flight service receives $500K to buy new plane
    • Want more family doctors? Change how they work and get paid says B.C. researcher
    • Why isn’t there a single medical licence for all doctors in Canada?
    • Why physician assistants can help revolutionize healthcare in B.C.
    • Youth Poverty Solutions
  • Surveys and/or Volunteers needed for Research
    • BC SUPPORT Unit
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    • Research Project for Primary Care Clinicians and Hospitalists
  • BCRHN Position Papers
    • Community Health Centres
    • Privatization in Health Care
    • Rural Health Councils
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  • BCRHN Letters, News Releases & Presentations
    • BCRHN Board
      • Submission to the Honourable Ravi Kahlon, Minister of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation – July 2021
      • Crisis in ambulance service extends into rural B.C.
      • Request for the inclusion of Physician Assistants into B.C.s primary healthcare – Template Letter
      • Template Letter to Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Rob Fleming
      • Letter to Minister of Health Adrian Dix regarding control and protection of Personal Health Records
      • Letter to the Honourable Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance re: Implementation of Universal, Public Pharmacare
      • Letter to Minister of Health Adrian Dix regarding Long Term Care in B.C.
      • Letter to Black Press re: National Pharmacare
      • Letter to the Editor – TIMES COLONIST
      • Introductory Letter to the Honourable Adrian Dix, M.L.A. Minister of Health
      • Presentation to Select Standing Committee on Finance – 2020
    • BCRHN Members
      • Society for the Protection and Care of Seniors, Trail – Letter to the Honourable Minister Adrian Dix
      • Powell River Voices – Letter to the Vancouver Coastal Health Authorities
    • Other
      • Canadian Association of Physician Assistants – Letter to the Honourable Minister Adrian Dix, endorsed by the BC Rural Health Network
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    • ALZHEIMERS/DEMENTIA
      • Learning to forget: From Alzheimer’s to acceptance
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      • B.C. acting to improve ambulance response times, support emergency workers
      • B.C. paramedics call on-call service model ‘flawed’
      • B.C. heat wave leads to 11-hour ambulance wait time, spike in sudden deaths
      • B.C. paramedic staffing now ‘critical’ as ambulance wait times reach 2 hours: union
      • Crisis in ambulance service extends into rural B.C.
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      • Stabilizing paramedic staffing in rural and remote British Columbia
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      • Opinion: Community health centres needed to improve primary care in B.C.
    • COVID-19
      • A behind-the-scenes look at why Canada delayed 2nd doses of COVID-19 vaccines
      • As Delta spread, Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness against infection fell from 90% to 66% in one key study
      • Canada’s top doctor calls for ‘structural change’ to address COVID-19 inequities
      • Canada’s public health data meltdown
      • COVID-19 breakthrough cases signal next phase of Canada’s battle
      • COVID-19’s fourth wave will be rehabilitation
      • COVID-19 outbreak at British Columbia long-term care home includes vaccinated residents
      • Delayed second Pfizer-BioNTech shot produces more antibodies, U.K. study says
      • Dying for love: Disconnection in the time of COVID-19
      • Expert bashes BC for COVID-19 Data Gaps
      • Florida doctor: This devastating Covid surge didn’t need to happen
      • From mu to C.1.2, here are the latest coronavirus variants scientists are watching closely
      • Grief support programs: teaming up to achieve more
      • ICU deaths fall at St. Paul’s
      • Is it OK to mix and match different vaccines?
      • Joint Statement on Misleading COVID-19 Information – College of Physicians and Surgeons B.C. & First Nations Health Authority
      • Life after COVID
        • How Cities, Travel, and Families Will Change
        • What will life be like after the coronavirus pandemic ends?
        • Will our world ever be the same?
        • When Will COVID-19 Be Over
      • Mandatory vaccination: legal, justified, effective?
      • Mixing COVID-19 vaccine doses leads to more reactions, study finds, which may be ‘first sign of success’
      • Nanaimo doctor warns B.C.’s critical care is reaching capacity
      • Ottawa proposes $7B top-up to transfers for health care, infrastructure
      • Parents of kids with long-COVID warn that children can develop severe symptoms
      • People More Likely to Keep Their Distance If You’re Wearing a Mask
      • People with dementia among hardest hit by COVID-19 health restrictions
      • Seniors suffering from total isolation in B.C. care homes
      • Surgeon sounds the alarm. ‘By far the worst it’s been’: Kelowna doctor says KGH is being hit by wave of surgery cancellations
      • The Fourth Wave Is Crushing Nurses and Other Health-Care Workers
      • The Myth of Universal Health Care
      • The pandemic has exposed Canada’s internet problem
      • The Second COVID-19 Shot Is a Rude Reawakening for Immune Cells
      • The year of the pandemic has busted the myth that Canada values its seniors
      • This is your brain on pandemic: What chronic stress is doing to us
      • Western provinces driving Canada’s 4th COVID-19 wave as physicians warn cases ‘out of control’
      • Why Canada’s decision to delay 2nd doses of COVID-19 vaccines may not work for everyone
      • When Will COVID-19 Be Over
      • Why countries are moving so quickly on COVID-19 booster shots — and what Canada should do next
      • Why it might be best to avoid painkillers as a precaution before your COVID-19 vaccine
      • Why reports of COVID-19 infections after 2 vaccine doses aren’t cause for alarm
      • Why restricting AstraZeneca vaccines in Canada means balancing ‘vaccine risk vs. disease risk’
      • Why rushing COVID-19 booster shots for everyone could do more harm than good
    • DISCRIMINATION in HEALTHCARE
      • After Years of Denial, BC and Vancouver Commit to Gathering Race-Based Data
      • Canadian nurses are leaving in droves, worn down by 16 merciless months on the front lines of COVID-19
      • Canadian province investigates racist ‘game’ played by hospital staff
      • Fear of racism deters many Indigenous people from seeking medical treatment, says health-care leader
      • Indigenous people lack access to health care because of systemic racism, report says
      • In Plain Sight – Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in B.C. Health Care
      • Joyce Echaquan ‘had bruises everywhere,’ family tells coroner as inquest continues
      • Nurses fired after Atikamekw woman said they ‘humiliated’ her while she sought treatment
      • Racial bias reaches tipping point in Canada’s healthcare system
      • The Death of Joyce Echaquan
    • DRUGS/ADDICTION
      • Can medical marijuana help combat the opioid epidemic? Maybe not, new study finds.
      • Daphne Bramham: Decriminalization is no silver bullet, says Portugal’s drug czar
      • Doctor-prescribed addiction: How these Canadians got hooked on opioids
      • Indigenous experts share harm reduction strategies at first-of-its-kind forum in Calgary
      • Robson Valley opioid clinic needed: local doctors
    • ENVIRONMENT
      • Nurses and Doctors Take Aim at BC’s LNG Ambitions
    • FIRST NATIONS, ABORIGINAL, MÉTIS
      • Eliminate Racism Against Indigenous Peoples in the Healthcare Systems
      • FNHA, FNHC, FNHDA Support Investigation into Systemic Racism
      • FNHA – Virtual health care services
      • Joint statement on B.C. Indigenous human rights legislation passing unanimously Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation
      • JOURNEY TO RECONCILIATION
      • Provinces, territories urged to follow B.C. and investigate systemic racism in health care
      • Results Released from Expanded First Nations Health and Wellness Survey
    • HOSPITALS
      • B.C. hospital housekeepers, food-service workers being brought back under public sector
    • INTERVIEWS
      • Rural citizen health councils empower communities: BC researchers
    • LONG TERM CARE
      • Andrew Longhurst: B.C. needs to significantly boost supply of public assisted living for seniors
      • COVID-19 Has Exposed the Perils of ‘Financialized’ Seniors’ Care
      • COVID-19 outbreak at British Columbia long-term care home includes vaccinated residents
      • Dr. Eric Cadesky: B.C. doctors working to improve care for residential-care patients
      • Every Voice Counts: Provincial Residential Care Survey Results
      • Family Councils
        • Family Councils in Long Term Care
      • It’s time for governments to listen to workers in long-term care homes
      • New long-term care standards will fall flat without money or enforcement, experts warn
      • On the Sunshine Coast, an Effort to Reinvent Senior Care
      • Out-of-date for-profit long-term care homes had highest number of COVID-19 outbreaks
      • Palliative Care has been lacking for decades in long-term care
      • The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the “place blindness” that causes policy-makers to overlook the specific needs and potential of rural Canada.
      • The Fix – New Program for Ontario Nursing Home
    • NURSES
      • Canadian nurses are leaving in droves, worn down by 16 merciless months on the front lines of COVID-19
      • The Fourth Wave Is Crushing Nurses and Other Health-Care Workers
    • NURSE PRACTITIONERS
      • Nurse practitioners say they’re underutilized in a stressed system
    • PHARMACARE
      • All Canadians deserve pharmacare, not just MPs – Dr. Nav Persaud
      • Broadbent Institute – Letter to Premier Horgan and Minister Adrian Dix
      • Canada has the key to lowering drug prices. Here’s why it won’t be used any time soon
      • Canada’s Unions welcome first steps on pharmacare – CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS
      • Canadians support pharmacare and it’s time to get on with making it a reality
      • Canada’s Unions welcome first steps on pharmacare
      • Cities & States Sue Big Pharma Targeting the Firms who Profited from Peddling Addictive Opioids
      • Don’t buy pharma’s lies about a universal pharmacare program – Steve Morgan
      • Government adds pharmacists into primary and community care
      • National drug care plan funding announcement creates more questions
      • Pharma companies could be forced to reveal payments to B.C. doctors
      • Too many Canadians can’t afford their medication
      • Universal Pharmacare and Federalism – Institute for Research on Public Policy
      • Universal pharmacare benefits business and working families
    • PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
      • Letter to the Editor – TIMES COLONIST
      • Why physician assistants can help revolutionize healthcare in B.C.
    • PHYSICIAN SHORTAGE
      • Healthcare workers in Alberta are looking outside their province for jobs.
      • Let’s declare a family-practice emergency
      • Letter to the Editor – TIMES COLONIST
      • Patients searching for family doctor at new Langford urgent care centre disappointed
      • The Vancouver Island doctor shortage, explained
      • Why physician assistants can help revolutionize healthcare in B.C.
    • PRIMARY HEALTHCARE
      • A Family Doctor’s Prescription for Fixing Primary Care
      • BC Health Coalition Applauds the new Team Based Primary Health Care Strategy
      • Life expectancy grows with supply of primary care doctors
      • Patients searching for family doctor at new Langford Urgent Primary Care Centre leave disappointed
      • Study: Primary Care Doctors Increase Life Expectancy, But Does Anyone Care?
      • Quebec’s winter clinics far from the panacea promised by health minister.
    • PRIVATE For PROFIT/Corporations
      • Advocates demand end to extra billing, upset over 15.9 million federal claw back
      • A Family Doctor Prescription Fixing Primary Care
      • A Welcome Second Chance for BC Medicare Protection
      • Careful, Canada: What Ireland has learned about two-tier health care
      • Charter challenge issue strike at the heart of the priniciples of medicare
      • China Caring for our Seniors
      • Corporations Want Your Health Records. Who’s Keeping Them Safe?
      • COVID-19 Has Exposed the Perils of ‘Financialized’ Seniors’ Care
      • How BC Can Fix Primary Health Care, With or Without Corporations
      • Judge’s decision expected in constitutional challenge of B.C.’s Medicare Protection Act
      • Judge rules against private care for patients as four-year B.C. trial challenging universal health system end
      • July 10, 2019 Cambie Case Update – BCHC
      • New, privatized health clinic will weaken public system: analyst
      • Private health-care is all about doctor profits, federal lawyer tells B.C. court
      • Private virtual health services are booming in a ‘policy vacuum’
      • Profits Before Patients? The Corporate Push into BC’s Primary Care System
      • Surgical backlog must not be fixed at the expense of the healthcare system
      • Telus Health ignored Alberta’s privacy laws when it launched Babylon app, reports reveal
      • The secret moves to increase private health care
      • US doctor in Canada: Medicare for All would have made America’s COVID response much better
      • What Happens When Health Care Becomes a Stock Market Play?
      • Why Are Corporations Moving into Health Care? Doctors Say It’s the System’s Fault
      • Why are we letting corporate medicine take hold in Vancouver’s new urgent care centres?
    • RURAL/REMOTE
      • Citizen voices critical for rural health care: researchers
      • New UBC chair determined to improve health care for B.C.’s rural residents
      • Rural Canadians face greater disparities from lack of anesthesia care, doctors say
      • Rural residents spending $2,200 in travel per medical condition: survey
      • Rural Site Visit Project
      • The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the “place blindness” that causes policy-makers to overlook the specific needs and potential of rural Canada.
      • UBC receives $750K TD Ready Challenge grant to deliver health care supplies by drone to remote B.C.
    • SENIORS
    • Social Determinants of Health
    • The Fix – New Program for Ontario Nursing Home
    • TRANSPORTATION
      • BC-wide transit and business incentives could fill rural transport gaps
    • URGENT PRIMARY CARE CENTRES (UPCCs)
      • Barely a year after finally finding a family doctor, these Victoria patients have lost theirs
      • Why are we letting corporate medicine take hold in Vancouver’s new urgent care centres?
      • Opinion: Community health centres needed to improve primary care in B.C.
      • New, privatized health clinic will weaken public system: analyst
      • Patients searching for family doctor at new Langford Urgent Primary Care Centre leave disappointed
      • Quebec’s winter clinics far from the panacea promised by health minister.
      • What is an Urgent and Primary Care Centre? Ministry of Health
    • VIRTUAL CARE
      • Apple Struggles in Push to Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy
      • Can remote consultations with a doctor be improved?
      • Corporations Want Your Health Records. Who’s Keeping Them Safe?
      • Health record company pays hospitals that use its algorithms
      • Private virtual health services are booming in a ‘policy vacuum’
      • Profits Before Patients? The Corporate Push into BC’s Primary Care System
      • Some family doctors in B.C. now accepting new patients
      • Telus Health ignored Alberta’s privacy laws when it launched Babylon app, reports reveal
      • Thirteen things you need to know about the people trying to end Canadian health care as we know it.
      • What Happens When Health Care Becomes a Stock Market Play?
      • Where Telemedicine Falls Short
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  • Resources
    • A Billion Reasons to Care – Office of the Seniors Ombudsman
    • Action for Reform of Residential Care (ARRCBC) Association
    • Addiction
      • Addiction/Overdose – A List of BC Sites
      • Addiction Rehab Treatment
      • Doctor-prescribed addiction: How these Canadians got hooked on opioids
      • Moms Stop the Harm
    • Aging Out: moving toward queer and trans competent care for seniors.
    • Alzheimer’s & Dementia
      • Alzheimer’s Association
    • A Pathway to Hope: A roadmap for making mental health and addictions care better for people in British Columbia
    • Are you the Victim of a Prescribing Cascade?
    • BC Academic Health Science Network
      • About the BC AHSN
      • A Journey Through Public & Patient Engagement in Health Research: A Road Map
    • BC Ambulance Response Map
    • BC Association of Community Health Centres
    • BC Centre for Palliative Care
    • BC Emergency Health Services
      • B.C. acting to improve ambulance response times…
    • BC Health Coalition
      • Save Canada’s Public Health Care
    • BC Healthy Communities
    • BC Ministry of Health
      • What is an Urgent and Primary Care Centre? Ministry of Health
    • BC Patient Advisory Committee (Patient Voices Network)
    • BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
    • BC Primary Health Care Research Network
    • BC Residential Care Facilities Quick Facts Directory
    • Canadian Doctors for Medicare
    • Canadian Virtual Hospice
    • Caring for Older Adults
    • Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (Australia)
    • Choosing Wisely – Policy Ideas for Limiting Low Value Care in Canada
    • Citizen Patient Community Participation in Health Care Planning 2019
    • Community Health Centres
      • Identifying the Features and Impacts of Community Health Centres – McMaster University
      • What Are Community Health Centres?
    • Community-Level Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Health Care Providers to Rural and Remote Areas
    • COVID-19
    • CPC Participation in Health Care Planning
    • Delivery models of rural surgical services in BC (1996-2005)
    • Drugsearch
    • General Practice Services Committee (GPSC)
    • Family Councils
    • First Nations/Aboriginal/Métis
      • BCGEU guide to First Nations acknowledgement, protocol & terminology
      • In Plain Sight Addressing Indigenous-specific and Racism in B.C. Health care
      • Virtual Health Care Services to First Nations people in BC
      • Virtual Health Care Services to First Nations people in BC
    • Free online presentation on medication safety for older adults and their caregivers
    • Government of B.C.
      • Health Gateway
      • Health Link BC
    • Government of Canada
      • Government of Canada COVID-19 Resources
      • Taking care of your mental and physical health during the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Healthcare Travelling Roadshow
    • Healthy Aging CORE
    • Health Sciences Association
    • Home Support – Office of the Seniors Advocate BC
    • Hospice Care
      • Hospice Care Alliance of British Columbia
      • Canadian Virtual Hospice
      • Hospice Care in British Columbia: The Path Forward
    • How to Establish Intergenerational Groups in Your Community
    • Local Evidence for Health Planning through a Rural Lens
    • Long Term Care
      • Health Standards Organization (HSO)
      • National Long-Term Care Services Standard
    • Michael Smith Foundation
    • Moms Stop the Harm
    • Nav-CARE – Navigating life and aging with chronic illness
      • Funding Opportunity
    • News Releases
    • Patient Engagement
      • IAP2 Spectrum of Engagement
      • Patient Voices Network/BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
    • Patient Medical Homes
    • Patients Travelling From Urban Geographies To Rural Hospitals For Procedural Care: A Realist Consideration
    • Physician retention and recruitment outside urban BC (Thommasen, 2000)
    • Plan H (BC Healthy Communities Society)
    • Policy Brief – RER
    • Putting Our Minds Together: Research and Knowledge Management Strategy
    • Resources for students
      • UBC Graduate Certificate in Primary Health Care
    • RISE (Rural & Isolated Support Endeavor)
    • Roadmap to a CHC in BC – BCACHC
    • Rural Evidence Review Project/Centre for Rural Health Research – Survey
    • Rural Health Councils – Policy Brief
    • Rural Health Services Research Network
    • Rural Coordination Centre of BC
    • Rural Site Visit Project
    • Select Standing Committee on Health – Looking Forward – 2017 Report
    • Seniors Advocate – Quick Facts Report 2018
    • Seniors Advocate – Residential Care Facilities – Directory 2018
    • Seniors Advocate – Residential Care Survey
    • Seniors helping seniors
    • Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
    • SOS Primary Care Network Issues Paper
    • SOS Primary Care Network Report
    • Statement on Cultural Safety and Humility – FNHA
    • Stigma Free Society
    • The BC Rural Centre
    • The British Columbia Patient-Centred Care Framework
    • The Primary Care Network Indigenous Engagement and Cultural Safety Guidebook
    • The Rural Road Map
    • UNBC Health Research Institute
    • Virtual Care
      • What Matters To You?
      • Virtual Care Guide for Patients
      • New data-driven dashboard highlights how patients benefit from virtual health visits
      • Canadian Virtual Hospice
      • HEiDi – Virtual Physician COVID-19 Deployment
      • RUDi – Rural Urgent Doctors in-aid
    • UBC Rural Evidence Review aims to identify highest-priority health needs in rural BC communities
    • Workforce retention in rural and remote Australia
    • Youth Mental Health
  • Reports/Research
    • 2020 Rapid Survey Findings on Rural Community Challenges and Technology Use during COVID-19
    • BCPSQC Evaluation Report 2018/19 – “What Matters to You?”
    • BCRHN AGM 2020
    • BCRHN Report to Ministry of Health on CHC Policy Development
    • CACHC -Community Health Centres & COVID-19 Impact and Experiences from the Pandemic
      • Community Health Centres & COVID-19 Impact and Experiences from the Pandemic
    • Canadian Association for Long Term Care
      • Long-Term Care’s Perfect Storm. 30 Years of under investment & COVID-19
    • Canadian Red Cross & National Institute on Ageing
      • Recommendations to Improve Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery for Older Adults Across Canada
    • Centre for Rural Health Research
      • Citizen-Patient-Community Participation in Health Care Planning….
      • Out-of-Pocket Costs for Rural Residents When Travelling for Health Care: Results From a Province Wide Survey in British Columbia – July 2020
      • Rural Responses to COVID-19 Survey Findings (Summary) – May 2021
    • Commonwealth Report 2021
    • Community Health Centres
      • Identifying the Features and Impacts of Community Health Centres – McMaster University
      • The Importance of Community Health Centres – What the Research Tells Us
    • COVID
      • COVID-19: learning as an interdependent world
      • Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Vaccines in Preventing Delta Variant Infection Among Nursing Home Residents …..
      • Pandemic Preparedness – Auditor General of Canada
      • World Happiness Report 2021 – The Effects of COVID-19
    • Citizen-Patient-Community Participation in Health Care Planning
    • Entrepreneurial Activities of Rural Coalitions in Advancing Access to Healthcare 2017
    • Home Support – Seniors Advocate
    • Hospice Care
      • Hospice Care in British Columbia: A Current State Assessment
    • In Hospitals, housekeepers are truly the ‘keepers of the house’.
    • Isobel MacKenzie – Monitoring Seniors Services reports
    • Long Term Care
      • A Higher Standard in LTC Homes
      • Assisted Living in BC – Trends February 2020
      • Cost Estimate for Motion 77: Improvements to Long-Term Care
      • Care Outcomes in Long Term Care Facilities in BC
      • FAMILY COUNCILS
        • A Study of Family Councils in Nursing Homes
        • Family Councils in Long Term Care
      • Findings from HSO’s Inaugural National Survey on Long-Term Care
      • From Residential Care to Hospital: An Emerging Pattern Aug 2018
      • Long-Term Care Facility Workers’ Perceptions of the Impact of Subcontracting on their Conditions of Work and the Quality of Care
      • Long-Term Care’s Perfect Storm – 30 Years of Underinvestment & COVID-19
      • Residential Care Facilities BC Quick Facts 2018
      • Restoring Trust: COVID-19 and The Future of Long-Term Care
      • The Place of Assisted Living in BC’s Seniors Care System
      • The rural tax: comprehensive out-of-pocket costs associated with patient travel in British Columbia
    • McMaster Optimal Aging Portal: Healthy Aging Research
    • Mental Health
      • Access to Adult Tertiary Mental Health and Substance Use Services – Auditor General Report
      • Youth Mental Health Report RCCbc
    • Ministry of Health – Putting Our Minds Together – Dec 2017
    • Pharmacare
      • National Pharmacare
      • Final Report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare
    • Physician Assistants (PAs)
      • A systematic review: The role and impact of the physician assistant in the emergency department
      • The contributions of physician assistants in primary care systems
    • Physician Shortage in Canada
      • A Review of Contributing Factors
    • Policy Discussion between BCRHN and MoH June 2018
    • Privatization in Health Care
      • Privatization the pre-existing condition killing seniors in long-term care
      • Long-Term Care Facility Workers’ Perceptions of the Impact of Subcontracting on their Conditions of Work and the Quality of Care
      • Contracting-Out Care in Nursing Homes
      • Under-regulated, under-researched and largely privatized: Assisted living seniors’ care in BC
      • Privatization and Declining Access to BC Seniors’ Care
      • Continuing to defend public health care – Cambie case
    • Provincial Health Care Partners’ Planning Retreat – Summary Report April 2019
    • Putting Out Fires – Use of Patient Complaints to Drive Improvements 2018
    • Report on the Health Sciences Association Conference April 2018
    • Report on the Policy Discussion between BCRHN and MoH 2018
    • Rural Health Equity
    • Rural/Remote
      • BC Rural and First Nations Health and Wellness Summit Summary Report
      • Community Factors and Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Health Care Providers to Rural and Remote Areas
      • Highest Priority Health Needs in Rural Communities
      • Highest Priority Health Needs in Rural BC Communities 2019
      • Out-of-Pocket Costs for Rural Residents When Traveling for Health Care
      • Physician Retention and Recruitment Outside Urban British Columbia 2000
      • Priorities for BCRHN
      • Review of Family Medicine in Rural/Remote Canada
      • Rural Health Services Research Network May 2018 Conference
      • Rural Road Map – Society of Rural Physicians
      • Rural Site Visit Project
      • Workforce Retention in Rural and Remote Australia 2002
    • Rural use of health service and telemedicine during COVID-19: The role of access and eHealth literacy
    • Transportation
      • Accelerating Rural Transportation Solutions – Ontario
      • Out-of-Pocket Costs for Rural Residents When Traveling for Healthcare
      • Seniors Transportation Report – Seniors Advocate McKenzie
      • UBC Rural Evidence Report
    • SOS Division – PCN Issues Paper September 2019
    • SOS Division – PCN Report September 2019
    • The rural tax: comprehensive out-of-pocket costs associated with patient travel in British Columbia
    • The ‘Whole-of-Person Retention Improvement Framework’
    • Virtual Care
      • Study shows HEIDI is an effective complement to 811
  • Blogs, Bulletins & Presentations
    • A Bridge to Action
    • A Word about First-Person Language
    • Complicated gratitude: a letter to my mother’s physician
    • COVID-19
      • BCRHN Presentation to Select Standing Committee on Finance – 2020
      • The effects of isolation on the physical and mental health of older adults
      • The Medical Futurist
      • World Happiness Report 2021 – The Effects of COVID-19
    • Four Things the Media got Wrong about Mental Illness
    • How can we define rural?
    • The Medical Futurist
    • The Social Bubble Blog
  • Petitions
    • Doctors Without Borders
      • COVID-19 vaccine – commit to fair and equitable vaccine access for all people in all countries
    • LeadNow.ca – Sign the open letter in support of healthcare workers
    • National Pharmacare
      • Take Action for Pharmacare
    • Seniors and Long Term Care
      • Forward Together – A Canadian Plan
      • Action for Reform in Residential Care
      • Make Seniors Care part of our Public Healthcare System
      • Fix Long Term Care – CUPE
      • Support Our Elderly in LTC and Seniors’ Care Homes
      • Seniors Deserve Better | BC-GEU
    • Transportation
      • Remove Financial Barriers for Rural British Columbians Seeking Healthcare Services
      • Let’s Ride! Make Public Transit BC Wide
      • Publicly funded national bus service
  • Conferences/Workshops/Webinars
    • BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
      • Quality Forum 2022
    • BC Rural Health Research Exchange
    • Health Excellence Canada
      • Shaping the Future of Care Closer to Home for Older Adults – October 12, 13 and 15, 2021
    • United Way
      • Provincial Summit on Aging. October 19, 2021
  • Videos/Podcasts
    • Advance Care Planning in B.C.
    • alumniUBC
      • On social determinants and health
    • B.C. acting to improve ambulance services response times….
    • BC Support Unit
      • Partnerships in Patient-Oriented Research
      • The Role of the Patient Engagement Methods Cluster
    • Canadian Association of Physician Assistants – Why BC needs PAs
    • Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)
      • Complicated Gratitude for MAiD
    • Canadian Virtual Hospice
    • Centre for Rural Health Research (CRHR)
      • Centre for Rural Health Research – Interview with Ed Staples & Nienke Klaver
      • Innovation from the Edges
    • College of Family Physicians of Canada/Society of Rural Physicians of Canada – THE RURAL ROAD MAP
      • The Rural Road Map for Action
    • Community Health Centres
      • Kootenay Boundary Division/Community Health Centres
      • Learning from other jurisdictions
      • The situation in B.C.
    • COVID-19
      • How COVID-19 has affected First Nations communities
      • Restoring Trust – COVID 19 and the future of Long Term Care
    • Doctors of BC Podcasts
    • Heart of Home – How Hornby Island developed their community home care for elders
    • Interviews
      • Stigma Free Society: Interview with Edward Staples
    • Is your Mom on drugs? Are you?
    • Keepers of the House
    • Lung X-rays of COVID-19 patients
    • Medicating Normal
    • Moms Stop the Harm
    • Mount Waddington
    • NavCARE – Navigating life and aging with chronic illness
    • Rural Canadians still struggle with poor internet connectivity, despite promises to fix it
    • Rural Coordination Centre of BC (RCCbc)
      • RCCbc/BC Rural Health Research Exchange
      • RCCbc – Rural Site Visits and Innovations
      • Health Care Leaders’ Planning Retreat – 2019
    • Senior Care Homes
      • What you should know – Vancouver Sun
  • Solutions/Improvements
    • 24/7 mental health support on the way for post-secondary students
    • Action plan to provide faster care for people with Parkinson’s
    • A welcome second chance for BC medicare protection – Colleen Fuller
    • BC Government News
      • B.C. acting to improve ambulance response times, support emergency workers
      • B.C. moving private home support services back into health authorities
      • Government adds pharmacists into primary and community care
      • B.C. government’s primary health-care strategy focuses on faster, team-based care
      • B.C. government will be implementing strategies that will increase access to surgeries such as hip and knee replacement.
      • Government expanding coverage for insulin pumps, eliminating age restriction
      • Interior getting 495 new long-term care beds
      • Legislation will prohibit payment for blood and plasma collection
      • New beds, support to help more people access addictions and recovery care
      • BC to improve access to dental care with $3.6 million to non-profit clinics
    • B.C. hospital housekeepers, food-service workers being brought back under public sector
    • B.C. should allow physician assistants
    • Better Connected: How Low-orbit Satellite Internet Can Pave Way for Health Equity
    • Budget gets thumbs up from Seniors Advocate
    • Chris Pengilly: Let’s declare a family-practice emergency
    • CODI is live
    • Cyber patients are training the world’s future doctors
    • Doctors and health providers treat loneliness by prescribing yoga and crochet lessons
    • Drug Delivery by Drone
    • Dr. Eric Cadesky: B.C. doctors working to improve care for residential-care patients
    • Free up money to solve doctor shortage – Perry Kendall
    • Green Armband Program – Denman/Hornby Discharge Planning
    • Health Workers Celebrate Repeal of Bill 29 and Bill 94
    • Hip and knee surgeries
    • Hospital at Home program – Victoria
    • How Ontario’s next government could relieve overcrowded hospitals
    • Keeping doctors in communities: A success story in BC’s north
    • New UBC chair to advocate for rural health care in B.C.
    • NORCS – Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities
    • North Vancouver’s HealthConnection Clinic lauded for its innovative approach in treating vulnerable patients
    • On the Sunshine Coast, an Effort to Reinvent Senior Care
    • Nuu-chah-nulth healing practices introduced to health care staff in Tofino
    • Palliative Care Training for Paramedics
    • Pharma companies could be forced to reveal payments to B.C. doctors
    • Project aims to help with transition from homelessness to housing
    • Public Health Care Solutions to Surgical Wait Times
    • Pups Assisting Wellness for Staff (P.A.W.S.)
    • Rising to the Challenge: How BC’s Community-Based Seniors’ Service Agencies Stepped Up During COVID-19
    • Rural Innovations and Site Visits Website – RCCbc
    • Solutions in sight for Parksville Qualicum Beach doctor shortage
    • Specialist Doctors for Princeton B.C.
    • Specialists for Princeton Project
    • Thunder Bay’s Rapid Access Clinic for hip, knee conditions cuts wait times from years to weeks
    • The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the “place blindness” that causes policy-makers to overlook the specific needs and potential of rural Canada.
    • The Fix: Dementia Project in Peel
    • Travelling Roadshow
    • Two private MRI outpatient clinics purchased by Fraser Health
    • UBC Master of Occupational Therapy program expands to northern BC
    • UBC receives $750K
    • Universal Pharmacare and Federalism
    • Vancouver health authority ends contract with private surgery centre over patient-pay issues
    • Victoria hospital offers innovative same-day hip and knee replacement surgery
    • Victoria increases respite care for home caregivers by $75 million
    • Virtual program brings specialists, ER doctors to remote B.C. communities 24/7
    • Volunteer-run medical flight service receives $500K to buy new plane
    • Want more family doctors? Change how they work and get paid says B.C. researcher
    • Why isn’t there a single medical licence for all doctors in Canada?
    • Why physician assistants can help revolutionize healthcare in B.C.
    • Youth Poverty Solutions
  • Surveys and/or Volunteers needed for Research
    • BC SUPPORT Unit
    • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
    • Long Term Care Standards
    • Research Project for Primary Care Clinicians and Hospitalists
  • BCRHN Position Papers
    • Community Health Centres
    • Privatization in Health Care
    • Rural Health Councils
    • Urgent and Primary Care Centres (UPCCs)
  • BCRHN Letters, News Releases & Presentations
    • BCRHN Board
      • Submission to the Honourable Ravi Kahlon, Minister of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation – July 2021
      • Crisis in ambulance service extends into rural B.C.
      • Request for the inclusion of Physician Assistants into B.C.s primary healthcare – Template Letter
      • Template Letter to Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Rob Fleming
      • Letter to Minister of Health Adrian Dix regarding control and protection of Personal Health Records
      • Letter to the Honourable Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance re: Implementation of Universal, Public Pharmacare
      • Letter to Minister of Health Adrian Dix regarding Long Term Care in B.C.
      • Letter to Black Press re: National Pharmacare
      • Letter to the Editor – TIMES COLONIST
      • Introductory Letter to the Honourable Adrian Dix, M.L.A. Minister of Health
      • Presentation to Select Standing Committee on Finance – 2020
    • BCRHN Members
      • Society for the Protection and Care of Seniors, Trail – Letter to the Honourable Minister Adrian Dix
      • Powell River Voices – Letter to the Vancouver Coastal Health Authorities
    • Other
      • Canadian Association of Physician Assistants – Letter to the Honourable Minister Adrian Dix, endorsed by the BC Rural Health Network
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