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Vancouver Coastal Health mobilizes an alternate care site
Published 11:57 PDT, Fri April 3, 2020
Last Updated: 2:13 PDT, Wed May 12, 2021
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Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)—in partnership with the Ministry of Health, Providence Health Care, Health Emergency Management BC, the Canadian Red Cross and B.C.’s Mobile Medical Unit—is mobilizing an alternate care site at the Vancouver Convention Centre, as part of its COVID-19 preparedness planning. While VCH continues to be cautiously optimistic that the COVID-19 curve can be flattened, precautionary steps continue to be taken, including setting up an alternate care site, as part of the pandemic response.
The purpose of the alternate care site is to add more bed capacity for lower acuity, non-COVID-19 patients to allow additional capacity within regional hospitals for critically ill COVID-19 patients who may need access to our critical care units.
The alternate care site will increase health-care capacity across the province, augment existing hospital infrastructure and provide additional bed capacity across VCH and the province.
The site is expected to be ready by April 8.
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