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COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North)

Collected by: Vancouver Island University

Archived since: Mar, 2020

Description:

In March 2020 the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC) stated: "The deadly flu outbreak of 1918-19 is often called the ‘forgotten pandemic.’ Our responsibility now is to ensure the lessons of COVID-19 are not forgotten. Our collective efforts to capture and preserve the essential online elements of this unprecedented event are critical." (CARL-ABRC). The COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North) Web Archive reflects community experiences and responses to the pandemic in the region served by Vancouver Island University, documenting and supporting diverse aspects of scholarly inquiry, creativity, and community life. The Web Archive is intended to provide a body of information that will support scholarship, creativity, and study. Information rights related to web archiving include considerations of copyright and fair dealing, and of individual and community privacy. The following are among principles and resources that guide web archiving decisions: Ethics of care, for example in VIU Library’s Pledge to our user communities; OCAP® principles, and awareness of relationality and accountability to Indigenous communities, and potential impacts related to web archiving; Good practice and expert advice, emerging and accessed through communities of practice, e.g. the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC); and VIU Library, Evolution of Physical Collections: 2017-2021 VIU Library, Special Collections Guidelines (Under review 2020). Web archives are informed by available capture technologies and also by affordances of the content source; not all websites can be successfully crawled or rendered, and quality of archived versions varies. This project is supported by VIU's Special Funding for COVID-19 research projects and carried out in coordination with the University of Victoria’s COVID-19 Collection and the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition. Contact us at research.help@viu.ca with questions or for more information about content included in the Web Archive. [Working description 2021 April 6]

Subject:   Spontaneous Events Society & Culture Science & Health Vancouver Island COVID-19 (Disease)

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Title: ʼNa̱mǥis, Island Health working to address emergency department closure | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/%ca%bcna%cc%b1m%c7%a5is-island-health-working-to-address-emergency-department-closure-1145854/

Description: For the second time in March, the Cormorant Island Community Health Centre emergency department is shut due to a shortage of physicians, and ʼNa̱mǥis First Nation and Island Health are working to address the situation.

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Subject:   'Namgis First Nation Island Health Cormorant Island Community Health Centre Dix, Adrian Hanson, James Speck, Kelly 'Namgis Health Centre BC Emergency Health Services

Title: Alert Bay residents worried as overnight ER services shut down for two weeks | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/alert-bay-residents-worried-as-overnight-er-services-shut-down-for-two-weeks-1071882/

Description: A remote B.C. island community is anxious as it faces a two-week overnight closure of its local emergency room due to the ongoing medical staffing crisis across the province.

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Subject:   Island Health Cormorant Island Community Health Centre Buchanan, Dennis Govereau, Randy BC Emergency Health Services Port McNeill Hospital Chemainus Health Care Centre Gear, Adriane Regional District of Mount Waddington

Title: Cormorant Island Community Health Centre’s ER to remain closed overnights due to staffing issues | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/cormorant-island-community-health-centres-er-to-remain-closed-overnights-due-to-staffing-issues-1114830/

Description: Island Health announced Wednesday that the ongoing 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. closure of Cormorant Island Community Health Centre’s emergency department will continue until at least Nov. 30 due to chronic staffing issues.

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Subject:   Cormorant Island Community Health Centre Island Health

Title: Doctor travels to Port Hardy to keep ER open, department closes anyway due to lack of nurses | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/doctor-travels-to-port-hardy-to-keep-er-open-department-closes-anyway-due-to-lack-of-nurses-1111191/

Description: A Vancouver doctor answering an urgent call to help staff Port Hardy’s emergency room so it could stay open says he was stunned when he arrived and found out there weren’t enough nurses for him to do his job.

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Subject:   Fong, Anthony Port Hardy Hospital Island Health BC Nurses' Union BC Emergency Health Services Cormorant Island Community Health Centre

Title: Overnight closure of Alert Bay ER extended, but shuttering island emergency rooms is off the table | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/er-crisis-expected-to-worsen-at-north-island-hospitals-leaked-documents-show-1081780/

Description: Island Health says no emergency rooms on northern Vancouver Island will permanently shutter as an ongoing staffing crisis continues to force temporary closures in small communities.

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Subject:   Island Health Cormorant Island Community Health Centre Port Hardy Hospital Port McNeill Hospital Hanson, James Longhurst, Andrew

Title: Island Health task force to address health-care crisis on North Island | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/island-health-task-force-to-address-health-care-crisis-on-north-island-1082068/

Description: As a result of multiple emergency closures and communities losing their physicians on northern Vancouver Island, a task force has been struck by Island Health.

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Subject:   Island Health Cormorant Island Community Health Centre Port McNeill Hospital Port Hardy Hospital Buchanan, Dennis Bond, Shirley Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice North Vancouver Island Doctors of BC Hanson, James

Title: Lack of staff prompts 48-hour closure at Port Hardy's emergency department | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/lack-of-staff-prompts-48-hour-closure-at-port-hardys-emergency-department-1078588/

Description: The health authority says the Port Hardy Hospital (PHH) emergency room will once again be temporarily closed, this time from 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 19 until 7 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 21.

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Subject:   Port Hardy Hospital Island Health Gear, Adriane Cormorant Island Community Health Centre Buchanan, Dennis Port McNeill Hospital

Title: Alert Bay COVID victim's family makes plea as B.C. deaths surpass 1000 | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/life-is-really-short-daughter-of-covid-19-victim-makes-plea-as-b-c-deaths-surpass-1000-733017/

Description: The daughter of an Alert Bay woman who died from COVID-19 last year is urging people to take the virus seriously as deaths in B.C. reach 1,010.

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Subject:   Mountain, Cindy

Title: North Island health-care crisis gets shot in the arm as 4 nurses hired, but Port Hardy ER closures remain | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/north-island-health-care-crisis-gets-shot-in-the-arm-as-4-nurses-hired-1144610/

Description: Island Health has announced the hiring of 18 new health-care and support workers, including four nurses, to bolster care on northern Vancouver Island — a small step toward tackling the region’s ongoing staffing crisis.

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Subject:   Island Health Port Hardy Hospital Dix, Adrian Province of British Columbia BC Nurses’ Union Cormorant Island Community Health Centre Eagle Ridge Manor Salvation Army Salvation Army Ocean Crest Community Ministries Winter, Michael

Title: North Vancouver Island health care is in an 'evolving state of crisis,' new leaked document shows | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/north-vancouver-island-health-care-is-in-an-evolving-state-of-crisis-new-leaked-document-shows-1083002/

Description: Most of the North Island region — not only Port Hardy — is facing doctor and nursing shortages as well as significant gaps in medical imaging and lab services, a document leaked to Canada’s National Observer shows.

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Subject:   Island Health Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice North Vancouver Island Cormorant Island Community Health Centre BC Ferries Port Hardy Hospital Port McNeill Hospital Doctors of BC First Nations Health Authority

Title: Port Hardy emergency department facing repeated closures this week due to physician shortage | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/port-hardy-emergency-department-facing-repeated-closures-this-week-due-to-physician-shortage-1104791/

Description: Island Health is advising of more temporary overnight closures at Port Hardy’s only emergency department and a shortage of physicians is to blame.

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Subject:   Island Health Port Hardy Hospital Cormorant Island Community Health Centre

Title: Port Hardy ER faces another overnight closure due to staffing shortage | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/port-hardy-er-faces-another-overnight-closure-due-to-staffing-shortage-1100865/

Description: Port Hardy’s emergency department is facing another immediate, temporary overnight closure due to a staffing shortage.

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Subject:   Port Hardy Hospital Island Health Cormorant Island Community Health Centre

Title: Port McNeill emergency room faces weekend closure due to staff shortage | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/port-mcneill-emergency-room-faces-weekend-closure-due-to-staff-shortage-1089384/

Description: The emergency department at Port McNeill Hospital (PMH) will be temporarily shuttered again this weekend and a lack of staff is to blame, according to Island Health.

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Subject:   Port McNeill Hospital Island Health Gear, Adriane Cormorant Island Community Health Centre Port Hardy Hospital Port McNeill Primary Care Clinic Hanson, James

Title: Staff shortage to blame for immediate, temporary closure at Port Hardy emergency department | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/staff-shortage-to-blame-for-immediate-temporary-closure-at-port-hardy-emergency-department-1093743/

Description: Island Health is advising those on the North Island of an immediate, temporary closure of the emergency department at Port Hardy Hospital amid a worker shortage.

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Subject:   Port Hardy Hospital Island Health Gear, Adriane Cormorant Island Community Health Centre Port McNeill Hospital Wickstrom, Gaby Province of British Columbia Furstenau, Sonia Olsen, Adam Hanson, James

Title: "We continue to be invisible": North island rally calls for better health care | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/we-continue-to-be-invisible-north-island-rally-calls-for-better-health-care-1144267/

Description: Three hundred people and a rising temperature filled a local school gymnasium Saturday as unhappy North Island citizens vented about the state of local health care.

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Subject:   Island Health Port Hardy Hospital Port McNeill Hospital Cormorant Island Community Health Centre Jenkins, Frank Armogam, Prean Province of British Columbia Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health Dix, Adrian Levy, Margot

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