Title: Resignations and retaliation: B.C. health-care workers see increasingly 'toxic' workplaces | CTV News

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

Description: There are more signs that tensions are high in British Columbia’s health authorities as an outspoken doctor on Vancouver Island has faced professional repercussions and nearly all the critical care doctors at a northern hospital have resigned.

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Subject:   Nataros, Alex,  Island Health ,  Williams, Ben,  College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia,  Dix, Adrian ,  University Hospital of Northern British Columbia,  Northern Health,  Delta Variant,  Variants of Concern,  Temple, Becky

Title: Province takes action to stabilize northern Vancouver Island health-care services | January 27, 2023 | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023HLTH0007-000101/

Description: Significant efforts are underway to stabilize and improve access to reliable health-care services, including emergency care, in Port Hardy and the Mount Waddington region.

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health,  Island Health ,  Dix, Adrian ,  Port Hardy Hospital,  Port McNeill Hospital,  Cormorant Island Community Health Centre,  MacNeil, Kathy,  Babchuk, Michele

Title: Authorization for the use of physician assistants in Port Hardy | January 20, 2023 | District of Port Hardy

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fm9PgCGaMAMXO9i?format=jpg&name=large

Description: 🌱Alex Nataros❤️‍🩹 on Twitter: "This week TWO #PortHardy doctors announced their resignation effective June 2023 I will be the only doctor left in Port Hardy emerg on July 1 I need help. I have hired a #PhysicianAssistant to start June 1 but I need @adriandix @Dave_Eby to give 👍🏼 Mayor/council wrote to Dix⬇️"

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Subject:   District of Port Hardy,  Dix, Adrian ,  Island Health ,  Port Hardy Hospital,  Stewart, Lisa,  Nataros, Alex,  Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health,  Canadian Association of Physician Assistants

Title: Inside Victoria's escalating hospital staffing crisis | The Tyee

URL: https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/07/18/Victoria-Hospitals-Lack-Of-Staff/

Description: The Tyee has obtained documents revealing operating room shutdowns amid a ‘critical lack’ of workers in southern Vancouver Island.

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Subject:   Island Health ,  Victoria General Hospital,  Saanich Peninsula Hospital,  Unger, Jeff,  Royal Jubilee Hospital,  South Island Surgical Centre,  Gandhi, Sanjiv,  Dix, Adrian ,  Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health,  Port Hardy Hospital,  Nanaimo Regional General Hospital

Title: 2 Vancouver Island area ERs to close overnight for foreseeable future | CBC News

URL: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6729027

Description: Two emergency rooms in B.C. will be closed overnight for the foreseeable future until the province can recruit enough staff to return to 24-hour operations.

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Subject:   Island Health ,  Dix, Adrian ,  Port Hardy Hospital,  Cormorant Island Community Health Centre,  MacNeil, Kathy,  Nataros, Alex,  Falcon, Kevin,  Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health,  College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia,  Corbett-Labatt, Pat,  Port McNeill Hospital

Title: Last remaining ER doctor in Port Hardy pleads for help after colleagues resign | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/i-need-help-last-remaining-er-dr-in-port-hardy-pleads-for-help-after-two-more-doctors-resign-1135909/

Description: Port Hardy’s physician shortage is facing a critical condition of its own, and the soon-to-be last remaining emergency room doctor there says he can’t do it alone.

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Subject:   Nataros, Alex,  Island Health ,  Port Hardy Hospital,  Corbett-Labatt, Pat,  Dix, Adrian

Title: ‘My care was appropriate’: Port Hardy doctor responds to allegations from Island Health | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/my-care-was-appropriate-port-hardy-doctor-responds-to-allegations-from-island-health-1140380/

Description: Port Hardy doctor Alex Nataros says a recent suspension of his emergency room privileges has been devastating.

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Subject:   Nataros, Alex,  Island Health ,  Williams, Ben,  Port Hardy Hospital,  Furstenau, Sonia,  Dix, Adrian

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: Two North Island doctors call for resignation of Island Health official | CHEK News

URL: https://www.cheknews.ca/two-north-island-doctors-call-for-resignation-of-island-health-official-1139881/

Description: Dr. Alex Nataros is one of two North Island doctors that says those calls for help aren’t being heard by Island Health’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ben Williams, and they’re now calling for his resignation.

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Subject:   Island Health ,  Nataros, Alex,  Williams, Ben,  Armogam, Prean,  Furstenau, Sonia,  Dix, Adrian ,  MacNeil, Kathy

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

Title: Workplace dissatisfaction in Island Health reaching unhealthy levels: Reports | Nanaimo News Bulletin

URL: https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/workplace-dissatisfaction-in-island-health-reaching-unhealthy-levels-reports/

Description: Job frustration among Island Health employees has reached unhealthy levels according to a pair of reports cited by the B.C. Green Party this week in Victoria.

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Subject:   Island Health ,  BC Green Party,  Furstenau, Sonia,  Doctors of BC,  Dix, Adrian ,  Nataros, Alex,  Williams, Ben

Title: Island Health executive answers tough questions about the North Island in exclusive interview | North Island Gazette

URL: https://www.northislandgazette.com/news/island-health-executive-answers-tough-questions-about-the-north-island-in-exclusive-interview/

Description: Gazette editor Tyson Whitney recently sat down with James Hanson, Island Health’s vice-president of North Island Clinical Operations, last Wednesday (March 1) for an in-depth interview, discussing a vast range of different health-care topics.

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Subject:   Island Health ,  Hanson, James,  Dix, Adrian ,  Port Hardy Hospital,  Eagle Ridge Manor,  Town of Port McNeill,  'Namgis First Nation,  Cormorant Island Community Health Centre,  Port McNeill Hospital,  Nataros, Alex,  Lee, Howie,  Quatse Community Health Centre,  Armogam, Prean

Title: Letter: Treatment of doctors in small communities sours lifelong NDP supporter | North Island Gazette

URL: https://www.northislandgazette.com/opinion/letter-treatment-of-doctors-in-small-communities-sours-lifelong-ndp-supporter/

Description: I’d like to say how disgusted I am at the health authorities’ treatment of our doctors and health-care workers.

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Subject:   Harvie, Anita,  New Democratic Party of British Columbia,  Island Health ,  College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia,  Williams, Ben,  Dix, Adrian ,  Port Hardy Hospital,  Port McNeill Hospital

Title: Doctors of B.C. president heads to Port Hardy to help out | Times Colonist

URL: https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/doctors-of-bc-president-heads-to-port-hardy-to-help-out-urges-others-to-do-the-same-6577690/

Description: Dr. Joshua Greggain, who lives in Victoria, volunteered to take ER shifts Saturday through Monday at Port Hardy Hospital to assist with an acute staffing shortage.

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Subject:   Greggain, Joshua,  Port Hardy Hospital,  Island Health ,  Cormorant Island Community Health Centre,  Port McNeill Hospital,  Dix, Adrian

Title: One hospital instead of 3 pushed as a solution for North Island health care | Times Colonist

URL: https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/one-hospital-instead-of-3-pushed-as-a-solution-for-north-island-health-care-6063263/

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Subject:   Fong, Anthony,  Port Hardy Hospital,  Island Health ,  Armogam, Prean,  Port McNeill Hospital,  Cormorant Island Community Health Centre,  Wickstrom, Gaby,  Avery, Granger,  Williams, Ben,  Dix, Adrian ,  Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice North Vancouver Island

Title: BC Greens leader Sonia Furstenau calls on Health Minister Dix to improve healthcare work environment | YouTube | BC Green Party

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0u7yCTq7U0

Description: Leader Sonia Furstenau is joined by Dr. Alex Nataros, family/emergency physician from Port Hardy, as well as other healthcare professionals and advocates, to speak about the unacceptable work environment for healthcare workers across the province. We’re calling on Health Minister Dix to meet with healthcare professionals and look at important healthcare reforms, including the use of physician’s assistants, expanding the use of nurse practitioners, and community health centres.

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia,  Nataros, Alex,  Dix, Adrian ,  Doctors of BC,  Island Health ,  Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health,  Williams, Ben,  Stewart, Lisa,  Currie, Camille,  BC Health Care Matters