Vancouver Coastal Health
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| Motto | Promoting wellness. Ensuring care. |
| Formation | 2001 |
| Type | British Columbia Health Authority |
| CEO | Dr. David N. Ostrow |
| Key people | Clay Adams, Mary Ackenhusen, Anne Sutherland Boal, Duncan Campbell, Dr. Jeff Coleman, Dr. Patrick O’Connor, Dr. Patricia Daly, Dianne Doyle, Anne Harvey, Susan Wannamaker, Maureen Whyte |
| Budget | $2.8 billion (can) (approx) |
| Staff | 19,000 (approx), 5,000 volunteers (approx) |
| Website | www.vch.ca |
Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) is a regional health authority providing direct and contracted health services including primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary care, home and community care, mental health services, population and preventive health and addictions services in part of Greater Vancouver and the Coast Garibaldi area.
VCH is one of six publicly-funded healthcare regions within the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Provincial Government of British Columbia, through the British Columbia Ministry of Health, sets province-wide goals, standards and performance agreements for health service delivery by the six health authorities.
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[edit] Service area
VCH serves the one in four of British Columbia’s four-million population who live in a geographic area of 58,560 square kilometres including 12 municipalities, four regional districts and 14 Aboriginal communities, including:
- Vancouver
- Richmond (within Metro Vancouver))
- The North Shore (The municipalities and districts of North and West Vancouver, within Metro Vancouver)
- Coast-Garibaldi (Sea-to-Sky (including Whistler), Sunshine Coast, Powell River, Bella Bella and Bella Coola).
Vancouver Coastal Health administers 13 hospitals and 3 diagnostic and treatment centers and 15 community health centers and more than 500 facilities provide a range of direct and contracted services including home and community care, mental health services, population and preventive health, addictions services and primary care.
VCH is not responsible for all health care within its geographic service area. Other hospitals such as BC Children's Hospital, BC Women's Hospital & Health Center, and agencies such as the BC Cancer Agency are operated by the Provincial Health Services Authority. Community partners and non-governmental organizations also provide certain health care services either in collaboration or under contract.
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| Population health & wellness | Primary health care | Acute care | Home & community services | Mental health & addictions |
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[edit] Denominational agreements
Seven care facilities, including British Columbia's second-largest hospital, St. Paul's Hospital, are operated through agreement with Providence Health Care, a Roman Catholic faith-based care provider. The CEO of Providence sits as a member of VCH's executive team. Through another affiliation agreement with the United Church of Canada, VCH also provides health services in Bella Bella and Bella Coola and the surrounding areas. VCH treats patients referred for specialized services from other health authorities throughout the province.
[edit] Research at VCH
The VCH Research Institute, though an extensive partnership with the University of British Columbia, focuses on translational research: enabling the best in patient care by rapidly turning research discoveries into new therapies, surgical techniques or treatment practices. To achieve this goal, the VCH Research Institute co-hosts to two National Centres of Excellence for Commercialization Research and one National Centre of Excellence as well as partnership with national clinical trials, research networks and industry.
The VCH Research Institute has 400 principal investigators and 200 trainees located in 350,000 square feet of dedicated research space based at VGH, UBC Hospital and GF Strong. The VCH Research Institute is one of Canada’s top funded health science research centres with 136 million in total research funding in 2007/2008.
[edit] Facts about VCH
- VCH provides 46% of all inpatient specialized care(tertiary/quaternary) for the over 4 million people in British Columbia and operates:
- 8,936 acute, rehabilitation and residential beds
- 421 community residential care beds
- 621 assisted living beds/units
- 1,430 mental health supported housing units
- 2,447 mental health beds
- 1,312 addictions beds
- On average, VCH annually provides:
- 3 million+ patient days of care
- 308,000+ annual Emergency Department visits (one person every two minutes)
- 640,000+ annual clinic visits
- 81,000+ annual same day surgical visits
- 79,000+ inpatient discharges
- 2.3 million+ residential care days
- 1.9 million+ home support hours
- 199,000+ home nursing visits
- In October 2008, VCH was named by Mediacorp Canada Inc. as one of BC's Top Employers, according to coverage by The Vancouver Sun, The Province and the Victoria Times-Colonist.[1]
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[edit] See also
Other health authorities in British Columbia
- Fraser Health
- Interior Health
- Northern Health
- Vancouver Island Health Authority
- Provincial Health Services Authority
