#bchealthcare — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://socialbc.ca/@nanaimonews/117252113615139437
My wife and I live this reality caring for my dad with dementia. While we are grateful to have access to homecare, they will call and cancel, often with very little notice, leaving us scrambling to make sure he gets a meal and his medications.
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RE: https://socialbc.ca/@nanaimonews/117252113615139437
My wife and I live this reality caring for my dad with dementia. While we are grateful to have access to homecare, they will call and cancel, often with very little notice, leaving us scrambling to make sure he gets a meal and his medications.
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RE: https://socialbc.ca/@nanaimonews/117252113615139437
My wife and I live this reality caring for my dad with dementia. While we are grateful to have access to homecare, they will call and cancel, often with very little notice, leaving us scrambling to make sure he gets a meal and his medications.
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RE: https://socialbc.ca/@nanaimonews/117252113615139437
My wife and I live this reality caring for my dad with dementia. While we are grateful to have access to homecare, they will call and cancel, often with very little notice, leaving us scrambling to make sure he gets a meal and his medications.
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RE: https://socialbc.ca/@nanaimonews/117252113615139437
My wife and I live this reality caring for my dad with dementia. While we are grateful to have access to homecare, they will call and cancel, often with very little notice, leaving us scrambling to make sure he gets a meal and his medications.
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H/t: #BCHumanistSociety
END RELIGIOUS EXCEPTIONS IN BC HEALTHCARE
Public Funds, Public Care
Every year, over a billion dollars of your tax dollars goes to healthcare facilities run by religious organizations. These hospitals are allowed to refuse legal, essential medical services including medical assistance in dying, abortion and contraceptives based on their management's religious dogma.
In 2026, terminally ill patients are still being forced out of their hospital beds just to access their legal right to a peaceful death. This is a violation of patient dignity and human rights.
Public funding should come with a public obligation. No British Columbian should be denied care or forced to undergo a dehumanizing transfer because the hospital bed they are in is governed by a church instead of the provincial health authority.
It is time to put patients before pews. Sign this petition to demand a truly secular, provincial healthcare system.
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Update: we got mom to hospital last night. In speaking with her doctor we felt it was the best way to get her the tests she needs in a timely fashion; he’s concerned that her breast cancer could have metastasized to her spine and that could be why her back is all messed up. And the best way to get a CT scan (and the other tests she needs) quickly is at the hospital. And since we had no way to get her safely downstairs we had to call an ambulance so they could safely bring her down and transport her to the hospital.
It’s fucked because it seems like such a waste of valuable resources (hospital bed, EHS) when those things are in such short supply, but there really was no other option.
There has to be a better way…
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This article doesn’t tell me enough to understand much about the different funding models or form an opinion on which is preferable. I know there’s a couple of docs on my feed. Anyone care to offer an opinion?
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Global News BC: B.C. judge rules hospital can take man off life support, despite his family’s wishes https://globalnews.ca/news/9889014/bc-man-off-life-support-against-family/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BCjudgeruleslifesupport #SupremeCourtRuling #Lifesupportruling #St.Paul'sHospital #BCSupremeCourt #Medicalruling #BChealthcare #SupremeCourt #HealthCare #Health