{"id":62930,"date":"2021-09-30T09:34:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=62930"},"modified":"2021-09-30T09:34:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:34:46","slug":"how-to-choose-who-stays-and-who-goes-in-bulkley-valley-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/how-to-choose-who-stays-and-who-goes-in-bulkley-valley-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"How to choose who stays and who goes in Bulkley Valley Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last three weeks in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bccdc.ca\/health-info\/diseases-conditions\/covid-19\/data?fbclid=IwAR1FVqozdMc6A4Ql3TombJipxmEQy0qImQMJATJLMX2Ds6_Sx7ysF1MtGG4\">Bulkley Valley have shown COVID-19 cases are six times more prevalent than in the Greater Vancouver Area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bulkley Valley, for those who are unfamiliar, is a remote region of northern BC that ranges from the Prince George west to the coast of the province.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix spoke to the people of Northern Health via a telephone town hall meeting on September 27th. Frustrations were voiced from many residents of Northern Health (and especially Smithers) about the low vaccination rate in the north (save for a handful of communities who have a very high vaccination rate and low case numbers such as Kitimat, Terrace, and Nisga'a Territory).<\/p>\n<p>CICK News spoke with Cormac Hikisch, a health administrator with Northern Health about the impact of these case numbers on the community and how residents of Northern Health are to understand <a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/daughter-wants-her-dad-to-be-kept-nearby-we-fought-tooth-and-nail\/\">why their loved ones are being moved to other communities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke about the metric of assessment to determine which non-COVID-19 residents of the Bulkley Lodge, a healthcare and longterm facility in Smithers and the Bulkley Valley Hospital were to be diverted to other community hospitals such as Terrace and Burns Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview with Cormac Hikisch below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last three weeks in the Bulkley Valley have shown COVID-19 cases are six times more prevalent than in the Greater Vancouver Area. Bulkley Valley, for those who are unfamiliar, is a remote region of northern BC that ranges from the Prince George west to the coast of the province. Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":62933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218,223,2602],"tags":[9772,9769,9075,9770,284,9771,827],"radio":[245],"origine":[280,263,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62930"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=62930"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=62930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}