VCH Indigenous Health

05/16/2022

You can now check out some of our achievements in 2020/21 in this newly published report: Tripartite Committee on First Nations Health. Do you recognize our VP, Leslie Bonshor, on the cover? 💜

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05/09/2022

We're hiring an Indigenous Patient Navigator at Sechelt Hospital. Reporting to the Director, Indigenous Patient Experience and Professional Practice, the Indigenous Patient Navigator (IPN) is accountable for providing day-to-day health system navigation support to create safe people, places, and systems for Indigenous clients and their families of VCH. Follow this link below for more details and how to apply. https://bit.ly/3vXwnFN

04/08/2022

We're excited to celebrate our Indigenous nurses. Sunday, April 10th will mark the inaugural BC Indigenous Nurses Day, celebrated in honour of Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture (born April 10, 1890), the first Indigenous person in Canada to become a registered nurse.

This Sunday, April 10, BC will celebrate the inaugural BC Indigenous Nurses Day to honour and thank the contributions of Indigenous nurses to health care throughout our history.

To Indigenous nurses at VCH as well as across B.C., we would like to thank you for your dedication and caring to the well-being of all people when they need it most.

April 10 was selected as it coincides with the birth of Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture, born April 10, 1890, and the first Indigenous person in Canada to become a registered nurse. Monture attended nursing school in the United States because of the racist and colonial attitudes that barred her access to nursing schools in Canada.

Learn more about this day and the important work done by Indigenous nurses: http://www.vch.ca/about-us/news/celebrating-bc-indigenous-nurses-day

03/10/2022

We're so proud of our Patient Experience team working within VCH hospitals to help Indigenous patients and their families during their stay and also breaking down biases along the way.

How does the Indigenous Patient Experience team help ?

By providing cultural safety and humility training to create safe people, places and systems for Indigenous peoples.

The team is composed of Indigenous nurse educators, Indigenous patient navigators and Indigenous patient care quality liaisons who work to support both Indigenous patients and clients as well as their care teams in providing culturally safe care across VCH, including at Vancouver General Hospital and Lions Gate Hospital.

“I love that I get to work with a team of amazing, knowledgeable and skilled Indigenous women," says Jessica Key, Indigenous Nurse Educator. “Every day we show up to give our all to the patients, clients and families that we serve and that we get to collaborate with and support our colleagues. I feel a lot of gratitude to be able to hold space for my Indigenous values and share that in the health-care system."

Read more: http://www.vch.ca/about-us/news/women-of-vch-indigenous-patient-experience-team

VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation

Lions Gate Hospital Foundation

02/14/2022

is a child and youth-led reconciliation event that brings together caring Canadians to help ensure First Nations children have the opportunity to grow up safely at home, get a good education, be healthy, and be proud of who they are.

Learn more: https://fncaringsociety.com/have-a-heart

Did you know that began in 2012 after kids who were bearing witness at the CHRT had to move outside because there were so many supporters inside witnessing? It has turned into a youth-led event and it occurs each year on February 14! https://buff.ly/2Q7cokA

02/09/2022

We'll be looking up at this beautiful artwork starting this Friday, February 11. Musqueam Indian Band artist Debra Sparrow will illuminate BC Place Stadium, turning its exterior roof light display into a Coast Salish weaving pattern. 🙌

Starting Feburary 11th, a design by a Musqueam First Nations artist Debra Sparrow will illuminate BC Place Stadium, turning its exterior roof light display into a Coast Salish weaving pattern.

01/25/2022

We stand in solidarity with the Williams Lake First Nation and the findings of the unmarked graves at St Joseph's Residential school. We must have this truth, with all of the difficult details known, to fully move toward reconciliation. If you need support, please reach out at the numbers below.

Supports are available. 🧡

IRSSS Toll-Free Line: 1-800-721-0066
24hr National Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419
KUU-US Crisis Line: 1-800-588-8717
Tsow-Tun-Le Lum: 1-888-403-3123

12/22/2021

Love this teaching from a Cree Elder on the shortest day and longest night of the year. Happy Winter Solstice!

What does the winter solstice mean in the Cree tradition? Elder Wildfred Buck explains how the Cree observe the shortest day of the year. To read more: http:...

12/17/2021

This is a great list of Indigenous businesses with a wide variety of options if you're looking for gifts for family and friends.

Looking for the perfect gift? Consider supporting a small Indigenous business! Check out our ever growing catalog of Indigenous owned shops!
https://bit.ly/3GvjOnD