Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) is the publicly funded health care provider in an area in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The region includes the communities of:
- Vancouver Island
- Gulf Islands
- Johnstone Strait
- Central Coast (part of)
Hospitals and Health Centres
- Bamfield Health Centre
- Chemainus Health Care Centre
- Campbell River & District General Hospital
- Cormorant Island Health Centre
- Cortes Health Centre
- Cowichan District Hospital
- Cumberland Health Centre (Laboratory Only)
- Gabriola Medical Clinic
- Galiano Island Health Care Centre
- Gold River Health Centre
- Hornby Island Medical Clinic
- Kyuquot Health Centre
- Lady Minto/Gulf Islands Hospital
- Ladysmith Community Health Centre
- Mayne Island Health Care Centre
- Namgis Health Centre
- Nanaimo Regional General Hospital
- Pender Islands Bishop Coleman Memorial Health Centre
- Port Alice Health Centre
- Port Hardy Hospital
- Port McNeill and District Hospital
- Queen Alexandra Centre for Children's Health
- Royal Jubilee Hospital
- Saanich Peninsula Hospital
- Saturna Island Medical Clinic
- St. Joseph's General Hospital (Affiliate)
- Sointula Health Centre
- Tahsis Health Centre
- Tofino General Hospital
- Victoria General Hospital
- Victoria Hospice (Palliative Care)
- West Coast General Hospital
- Zeballos Health Centre
Famous quotes containing the words island, health and/or authority:
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—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“The first year was critical to my assessment of myself as a person. It forced me to realize that, like being married, having children is not an end in itself. You don’t at last arrive at being a parent and suddenly feel satisfied and joyful. It is a constantly reopening adventure.”
—Anonymous Mother. From the Boston Women’s Health Book Collection. Quoted in The Joys of Having a Child, by Bill and Gloria Adler (1993)
“When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)