This review of Patient Care Quality Office complaints underscores the critical importance of patient complaints as feedback and a key indicator of the need for improvements in the province’s healthcare system:

9,500 patient complaints lodged with B.C. health authorities over treatment quality

Comox Valley resident and advocate Liza Schmalcel wrote this recent OpEd as a response to an OpEd by Duncan resident Bryan Senft, concerning the lack of transparency about the number of beds to be provided during the public planning process for the new Cowichan Valley hospital:

Time is now to demand more beds for new hospital

The original OpEd by Duncan resident Bryan Senft:

Questions abound about new hospital, water, old hospital and forests

The Tofino community is working hard to get a new hospital onto the Island Health planning agenda:

Tofino pushing for new hospital

And for those following the changes in healthcare services in Port Alice:

Services at the Port Alice Health Centre get clarification from Island Health…. sort of

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