https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kitimat-hospital-er-service-disruptions-1.6920261

“The only hospital in #Kitimat has experienced two instances of reduced emergency services in the past two weeks, leading local residents to worry about their safety in the industrial community that is home to a major aluminum smelter.

The #NorthernHealthAuthority said the disruptions were caused by their decision to transfer the emergency department physician from the Kitimat hospital to the #MillsMemorialHospital in #Terrace, about 51 kilometres away.”

The Tyee: BC’s Emergency Room Crisis https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/07/20/BC-Emergency-Room-Crisis/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #NorthernVancouverIslandhealthcare #ProvincialHealthServicesAuthority #BChospitalserviceinterruption #CormorantIslandHealthCentre #FirstNationsHealthAuthority #COVID-19healthcareimpact #InteriorHealthAuthority #BCnursestaffingshortage #NorthernHealthAuthority #VancouverCoastalHealth #BCemergencyroomcrisis #FraserHealthAuthority #IslandHealthAuthority

“A majority of local #physicians say they find #MillsMemorialHospital a satisfactory place to practise medicine but few feel the governing #NorthernHealthAuthority values their contributions, indicated a 2022 survey conducted by the provincial body which represents B.C.’s doctors.”

https://www.terracestandard.com/news/doctors-satisfied-with-mills-memorial-less-so-with-medical-leaders/

“the intensive care unit #ICU at the University Hospital of Northern BC #UHNBC is being staffed mostly by temporary physicians after seven of the eight intensivists on staff there resigned.
Multiple sources tell CTV News workplace conditions at northern B.C.'s largest hospital have deteriorated further since last year, when local officials were calling for an audit of the #NorthernHealthAuthority.”

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/resignations-and-retaliation-b-c-health-care-workers-see-increasingly-toxic-workplaces-1.6265688