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Ministry executives. Stephen Brown, Deputy Minister. Bonnie Henry, Provincial Health Officer. Website. Official website. The Ministry of Health is a department of the Government of British Columbia which oversees the provincial healthcare system. It manages services including the Medical Services Plan, HealthLinkBC, and the PharmaCare program.
Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is a publicly funded health service provider in the province of British Columbia. PHSA is unique in Canada as the only health authority having a province-wide mandate for specialized health services, although within British Columbia the First Nations Health Authority is also non-regional and highly ...
Susan Brown. Budget. $2.6 billion (2020/21) [1] Staff. 21,000 staff; 1,900 physicians; 4,800 volunteers [1] Website. www .interiorhealth .ca. Interior Health is a regional health authority in British Columbia. It is one of the five publicly-funded regional health authorities, serving the southern Interior region of British Columbia.
HealthLinkBC.ca. HealthLinkBC is a government-funded telehealth service launched in 2001, which provides non-emergency health information to the residents of British Columbia, Canada through combined telephone, internet, mobile app, and print resources. [1] [2] HealthLink BC has two dedicated phone numbers 8-1-1 and 7-1-1 for hearing impaired ...
A public health emergency was declared in the province on March 17. On June 29, 2021, BC Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth signed Ministerial Order M275 to come into effect at the end of the day on June 30, 2021, ending the province-wide state of emergency since March 18, 2020.
Website. www .islandhealth .ca. Island Health, also known as the Vancouver Island Health Authority, is the publicly funded health care provider in the southwestern portion of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was established as one of five geographically based health authorities in 2001 by the Government of British Columbia.
The Medical Services Plan of British Columbia ( MSP) is a government-administered, single-payer health insurance in the Canadian province of British Columbia, operating under the auspices of the country's national Medicare program. Under the Canadian constitution, provinces are responsible for the delivery of health care, while the national ...
History. Fraser Health was created in December 2001 as part of a province-wide restructuring of health authorities by the then-new BC Liberal government of Premier Gordon Campbell. It is the merger of three former health regions: Simon Fraser Health Region (SFHR), South Fraser Health Region, and the Fraser Valley Health Region (FVHR).