Provincial Health Services Authority

Provides expectant mothers with health information, resources, traditional teachings, growth charts, checklists, and a place to write down goals, thoughts, ideas, and dreams for their babies. With the passport, women can document their sacred traditional journey through pregnancy, birth, and baby's first few weeks.

Provides assessment and diagnosis of autism in children through a network of specialists and health care professionals across British Columbia.

Provides newborn hearing screening, diagnosis and intervention upon birth. Service open to all babies born in BC. Screening conducted in hospital before baby and mother are discharged, or local community audiologist will set up appointment.

Provides online information and resources to help BC residents stay informed about current public health concerns, issues and topics.

Health topics and resources include advance care planning, hearing loss, living with chronic illness, stroke, medical assistance in dying, preventing injury, environmental hazards, and healthy habits for life.

Provides care to individuals with a history of an inherited arrhythmia or inherited heart rhythm condition, an unexplained sudden cardiac arrest, or a family history of sudden unexpected death.

Clinics are held through two clinical sites in Vancouver and Victoria and may include genetic counselling, heart screening tests, and appointment with a heart rhythm specialist.

Provides a simple blood test to get important information about a newborn baby's health including rare and treatable disorders. Newborn babies are screened between 24 and 48 hours old, either in hospital before discharge, or at home if a home birth with a registered midwife. Screening and early detection allows for treatment that may prevent or greatly reduce health problems.

Offers online information and resources about prenatal genetic screening for Down syndrome, trisomy 18 or an open neural tube defect, for pregnant women in BC.

Provides program information and resources for parents of newborns to screen for biliary atresia, a rare but serious liver disease that begins to affect newborns in the first month of life. Parents are asked to check their newborn's stool colour against a colour card every day for the first month after birth. If they see an abnormal stool colour, they are to call or email the Biliary Atresia Home Screening Program directly.

Provides online up-to-date concussion education for parents, educators, and coaches to help manage a child with a concussion, as well as education for players and coaches on preventing and recognizing concussions. Also offers a clinical toolkit and online course for health professionals.

Offers confidential support services to help patients, families and healthcare teams who face complex, difficult ethical decisions. Areas of support include identifying the appropriate or justifiable course of action, balancing perspectives and values that inform decisions, handling disagreements to determine the best path forward, clarifying who should make the decision, and facilitating discussions about patient and family values. Offered in person or virtually per needs of the requester.

PHSA Ethics Service is centralized and serves all provincial agencies including but not limited to BC Cancer Agency, BC Centre for Disease Control, BC Children's Hospital and Sunny Hill Health Centre, BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre, BC Mental Health and Substance Use, BC Emergency Health Services, and other agencies delivering PHSA's programs and services.

Provides an online listing of BC health resource and services available in French, as well as information about the BC health system explained in French.

Provides Indigenous youth wellness promotion and suicide prevention through online activities and training and in community based youth groups.

The Cuystwi program offers online wellness quests with themes on identity, culture, understanding colonization, tools to deal with racism, healthy relationships, and sexual health.

Also offers Ask Auntie - a girl-specific program with themes on identity, culture and connection, relationships and safety, wellness, body knowledge and body transitions, and healing.

Provides a free phone app that brings emergency responders to people who may be having an overdose on drugs while alone. Provided in partnership with regional health authorities and Lifeguard Digital Health.

The app is activated by the user before they take their dose. If the user doesn't hit a button after a set amount of time, a text-to-voice call will go to 9-1-1, alerting emergency medical dispatchers of a possible overdose.

Offers support, education and training to first responders, frontline healthcare workers, and other community care providers, who are experiencing distress and mental health concerns related to overdoses, overdose death, or COVID-19.

Provides patients, clients and residents of BC information on the process to file a concern, or offer a compliment, regarding the quality of care received.

Serves provincial agencies such as BC Cancer Agency, BC Centre for Disease Control, BC Children's Hospital, BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre, BC Emergency Health Services, and BC Mental Health and Addiction Services.

Offers a province-wide virtual post-COVID recovery clinic for people with long-term health effects after COVID-19 infection. The network is a partnership between PHSA, the provincial Ministry of Health and BC's health authorities.

The clinic offers education sessions, rehabilitation support and self-recovery resources. Online self-care information and resources are also available for any resident wanting to learn more about long-COVID support and recovery.

Provides BC-wide information and resources to make sure people have the information they need to access gender affirming health care and supports.

Support areas and information includes accessing care, social transitioning, peer and community support, advocacy, mental health wellness, child and youth resources, how to get surgery, and family support.