Your Help Is Critical, Give Vancouver Island What Every Other Health Authority in BC Already Has
Today—more than ever—our hospitals need you.
If you ask our frontline care teams to name the greatest priority need in our local hospitals, the answer is simple: critical care expansion.
More critical care capacity was urgently…
From the front lines: Respiratory Therapist Marina Buljat
From Victoria's ICUs: Dr. Omar Ahmad's Message
A Perspective from the ER: Dr. Michelle Tousignant
Mitch's Story
When Mitch suffered a traumatic brain injury, his whole world changed. The rapid and accurate imaging and medical assessments he received in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Victoria General Hospital (VGH) were critical for his recovery and…
Patient Story: Robert and Birgit Bateman
Longstanding Salt Spring Island residents Robert and Birgit Bateman are both artists, naturalists and retired high school art teachers. By way of their charity organization, the Bateman Foundation, they aim to engage people with the beauty and…
Dr. Omar Ahmad
From Dr. Omar Ahmad
We don’t treat a disease; we treat a person. Before we can diagnose the cause of one’s symptoms and prescribe treatment for a specific condition, we need to understand how their body, at this moment, is functioning —…