Entries by Victoria Hospitals Foundation

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Save-On-Foods: Helping Local Hospitals

VICTORIA, BC — Today, Save-On-Foods stores in the Greater Victoria Area pledged an incredible $300,000 to the Victoria Hospitals Foundation’s It’s Critical campaign to expand critical care capacity at Royal Jubilee Hospital (RJH). To support this commitment, eight Victoria area Save-On-Foods stores launched ‘Helping Local Hospitals Together’, a series of in-store initiatives to raise money for local critical care expansion, helping patients […]

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COVID-19: Local Research Team Finding Hidden Cases

How do you count what you can’t see? Dr. Laura Cowen, a statistician at the University of Victoria, is working with a team of Island Health experts to do just that when it comes to “hidden” COVID-19 cases. The team will estimate the number of undiagnosed cases using statistical models drawn from wildlife ecology. “By […]

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Public Health: Informing Our Response to Dual Emergencies – The Pandemic & Overdose Crises

BC is in the midst of two public health emergencies: the COVID-19 pandemic and the worsening drug overdose crisis. People who use illicit drugs face a higher risk of COVID-19 infection, complications, and mortality due to underlying health conditions and in some cases living conditions which make public health measures such as physical distancing, hand-washing […]

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COVID-19: Building a Biobank to Accelerate Research

To empower research that moves from the lab bench to the bedside, Island Health is establishing a Vancouver Island COVID-19 Biobank in collaboration with the BC Cancer Agency, UBC Faculty of Medicine, and other health authorities. The biobank will gather data and biological specimens like blood and plasma samples from COVID-19 patients across the region. […]

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Pediatrics: Supporting Families with Kids in Intensive Care

The pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at Victoria General Hospital provides the highest levels of care for our youngest and most vulnerable patients. For children and their parents, needing care in the PICU can be a stressful and overwhelming experience. During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, PICU patients’ visitors were severely restricted in […]

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