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Northern Health is looking for community partners with ideas for projects that will improve the health of those living, working, learning and playing in northern BC.  The call for applications to apply for the latest round of IMAGINE Community Grants is now open.

IMAGINE grants provide funding to community organizations, service agencies, Indigenous organizations, schools, municipalities, regional districts, and other partners with projects that support northerners in their efforts to stay healthy. 

Dawson Creek and area residents are advised that Dawson Creek & District Hospital remains open, as the facility recovers from a small fire inside the hospital earlier today.

The hospital’s emergency department, inpatient areas, oncology services, laboratory and medical imaging departments are fully operational. Patients can continue to access these services as they normally would.

Northern Health’s Board of Directors discussed progress on capital planning, recent recruitment successes, and the valued support from foundations & auxiliaries at its most recent meeting in Valemount.

Board members heard an update from Northern Health staff on its work with the Ministry of Health on capital plans at various stages of development, including the business planning for hospital replacements in Terrace, Fort St. James, and Dawson Creek & District Hospital and an ICU/Emergency Department at GR Baker Hospital in Quesnel.

From Kitimat to Tumbler Ridge, seven communities in northern B.C. are receiving age-friendly grants to support seniors so they can live active, socially engaged and independent lives.

A total of $729,500 in age-friendly grants is being provided to B.C. communities in 2019, including, for the first time, four First Nations communities.

Grants will be distributed to Fraser Lake, McBride, Tumbler Ridge, Kitimat, Prince George, Quesnel and Valemount.

Northern Health has released its hand hygiene compliance reports for quarter 1 and quarter 2 (2018-2019).

With influenza season well underway, Northern Health is reminding residents that it is not too late to get immunized against the flu.

As in other parts of the province, influenza and other viruses that are common at this time of year are circulating, and surveillance from health care visits and lab confirmations show influenza activity on the rise in Northern B.C.

Northern Health is pleased to announce that Fort St. John Hospital has had its first birth of 2019, and it’s a girl!

Piper Hope McLain was born January 3rd, at 2:35 a.m., to parents Medeline and Cory McLain of Fort St. John. She weighed in at seven pounds, 10 ounces, and is welcomed to the world by four big brothers and sisters.

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Northern Health is pleased to announce that the first baby of 2019 has been born at Kitimat General Hospital, and it’s a girl!

Liv Marlene Highton was born January 2nd at 5:10 a.m., weighing in at eight pounds, 13 ounces. Liv is welcomed to the world by her parents, Leslie and Brandon Highton of Kitimat, and Charlie (the family dog) to play with when she’s a little bigger.

View details on other New Year’s babies in the Northern Health region.