Making friends with food for your health
(Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Northern Health’s Healthier You – Winter 2018 edition on Healthy Relationships. Read the full issue here.) When we think about healthy relations...
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Terrace Health Unit: Better patient care through integrated practice even extends to how medical supplies are organized
Patient care is a priority, and little things matter. Kristen Gogag, a Primary Care Assistant at the Terrace Health Unit, and her colleague Hayley Lessard, Health Unit Aide, recently reorganized the s...
Connecting a community one meal at a time
Sometimes the smallest act can have the biggest impact. For Meals on Wheels volunteers in Terrace, that small act is delivering meals to seniors in the community. However, the benefits of the progra...
Garry’s story: Coordinated team care and courage add up to a remarkable recipe for change
Garry McPhee, 50, is a member of the Tahltan First Nation in Northern British Columbia, which includes the communities of Telegraph Creek and Dease Lake. The Fort St. John resident had strug...
Clean hands are your best defence against the flu
Flu season is once again in full force. Influenza, or the flu, is a virus that causes fever, cough, headache, sore muscles or joints, fatigue or weakness, and a sore throat. It’s spread through c...
Facility engagement removes silos, improves teamwork in the North
Article submitted by Doctors of BC. Strengthening relationships and engagement Facility Engagement is a provincial initiative of the Specialist Services Committee that aims to strengthen re...
