News & Updates

HSA members working throughout the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley received notice last month of a region-wide plan to consolidate diagnostic imaging services in the Lower Mainland.An important meeting to discuss how the consolidation plan may affect the jobs of HSA members working in diagnostic imaging throughout the region will be held for HSA members working at Abbotsford Regional Hospital...

Public Forum: Public Health Care: How can we afford it? Date:Friday, May 14 Time:7:00 p.m. Place:Firefighter's Conference Centre6515 Bonsor Street, Burnaby(in the Metrotown complex) SPECIAL GUESTS: Iglika Ivanova, Economist and Public Interest Researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on supporting innovation in the public health care system. Well known public interest lawyer Steven Shrybman on the aggressive constitutional...

The BC Health Coalition is calling into question the provincial governments commitment to defend public health care in the courts in the wake of the recent appointment of Kip Woodward as chair of Vancouver Coastal Health ... the provinces second largest health authority. Mr. Woodward is a former Board member of the for-profit Cambie Surgery Centre and his family investment...

MEETING DATES ADDED Facility Date Time Location Peach Arch Hospital Wednesday May 5 8 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Diagnostic Imaging Department Conference Room Peach Arch Hospital Wednesday May 5 11:30 - 1:30 p.m. Committee room near the cafeteria Surrey Memorial Hospital Wednesday May 5 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.and4 - 5 p.m. Conference room in the Medical Imaging Department BC Cancer...

The Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine will host a national conference in Vancouver from May 13-15, 2010. For details and registration information, see www.transfusion.ca The Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine is a multidisciplinary society which promotes and supports the best practice in transfusion medicine in Canada through education, communication and partnerships. Conference poster

On April 28 ... the National Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job ... HSA President Reid Johnson and the unions Board of Directors will place a wreath at a ceremony in downtown Vancouver. All workers and their families are invited to pay tribute to workers who have been injured or killed on the job, or...

May 2 - 8, 2010 is National Occupational Health and Safety Week. The attached information from Worksafe BC provides a listing of resource materials to assist in any promotions you may consider, in support of this week.More information can be found at the WorkSafe BC website. Printer-friendly version

Members of the Health Sciences Association, the health care union that represents health sciences professionals who deliver diagnosis, treatment and recovery in BCs hospitals and communities, is meeting this weekend at its 39th annual convention in Vancouver. BC Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair told delegates Friday that it is important to fight for public health care, because the private...

Vancouver Sun By Pamela Fayerman, Rob Shaw and Richard Watts Sources: Canwest News Service and Times Colonist The provincial government is changing the way it funds B.C.'s largest hospitals, a move health officials hope will lead to faster, better treatment. The new system will provide financial incentives to those hospitals that demonstrate they can treat more patients quickly and cost-effectively...

Reid Johnson, President of the Health Sciences Association, welcomes innovative changes in the delivery of health care and will be watching as the patient-focused funding initiative unveiled by Health Minister Kevin Falcon yesterday unfolds. HSA is the union that represents the health science professionals on the modern health care team, delivering critical diagnostic, clinical and rehabilitation services in BC hospitals...