Staying healthy: Using your COVID-19 toolkit
Northern Health is working hard to keep Northerners healthy and safe. As COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, you may wonder what tools you still have to protect yourself. Over the past few years, weâ...
Prince George
Qualitycast North: Dr. Joe Costa discusses his work to improve the number of useful x-rays
In Episode 4 of Qualitycast North, Dr. Shyr Chui connects with Dr. Joe Costa of Prince George. In this episode, Dr. Costa discusses how he and his team aimed to improve the proportion of appropriate, ...
Physician spotlight: Dr. Faiza Jabbar
Dr. Faiza Jabbar has worked as a psychiatrist at the University Hospital of Northern BC (UHNBC) in Prince George for almost ten years. Before coming to Canada, she worked in Ireland for over ten years...
Students write to UHNBC teams to show support during COVID-19
Bringing messages of joy to staff at UHNBC In the final weeks of 2020, a group of grade 6/7 students at Foothills Elementary School in Prince George worked hard to help bring messages of joy to sta...
Prince George COVID-19 clinic celebrates 50,000 doses
The Prince George COVID-19 immunization clinic celebrated a milestone today, surpassing 50,000 vaccine dosses administered at the Prince George Civic Centre. Julie Dhaliwal, NH Director of Communit...
PG Quilters’ Guild donates items to long-term care sites
By Louise Parkes, Recreation Therapist – Supervisor; Lynn Aucoin, Recreation Therapist – Supervisor Beautiful handmade items donated to long-term care sites The Prince George Quilters’ Gui...
Why I got the vaccine: Looking forward to seeing my grandmother
Why I got the vaccine Side effect I’d been hoping to avoid: inability to keep myself from shouting from the rooftops that I’d been immunized. Side effects I hoped for (I know, I know – but...
