The roaches were reportedly crawling around Saanich Peninsula Hospital on Vancouver Island Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader ...

Fred Bai, left, and Eric Demers, right, are two of the newly minted physician assistants starting work at the Saanich Peninsula Hospital in Saanich, B.C. Dr. Paeta Lehn is the medical professional ...

The great blue heron painting is valued at about US$90,000 to $100,000 and is open to bids, with the money going to an ...

The Vancouver Island Health Authority has confirmed the presence of cockroaches at a Canadian hospital — which reports say were climbing on patient bedding, the walls, and at times, on the ...

Saanich Peninsula Hospital ER to get physician assistant in pilot project. While the pilot project is being hailed as a significant step, it won’t yet see the hospital’s ER reopen overnight.

First approved in 1969 to replace the old Rest Haven Hospital in Sidney, Saanich Peninsula Hospital opened on Feb. 8, 1974. The hospital’s 75-bed acute wing opened in 1978.

He said patient volume at Saanich Peninsula Hospital has increased by about 40 to 50 per cent in the past few years. “Physician assistants work directly with a supervising physician,” Lehn ...

NORTH SAANICH, B.C. — Island Health says a lack of staff has forced it to begin overnight closures of the emergency room at a small Victoria-area hospital. Canadian Press Jul 7, 2023 9:06 AM Jul ...

Dr. Jeff Unger, an ER physician at Saanich Peninsula Hospital, said 18 patients tested positive for COVID-19 as of Aug. 31, occupying nearly 30 per cent of beds at the hospital.

Emergency-room physicians at smaller hospitals on the Island, including Saanich Peninsula, are being called on this week to fill shifts in late May and June on an “urgent basis.” If 16 open shifts in ...

Island Health is looking for a physician ­assistant — one of the first in the province — to work in Saanich Peninsula Hospital’s emergency department, which has been closed overnight since last July ...

NORTH SAANICH, B.C. ... A statement from the health authority says closure of the Saanich Peninsula Hospital emergency department begins at 10 p.m. tonight and will end at 7 a.m. Saturday. ...