Just Like Home: Keeping Families Together When They Need It Most

Imagine your loved one needing vital medical care, life-saving surgery, or cancer care. Now imagine driving more than 200 km to access that care. That is the reality for families from North Vancouver Island and the Central Coast of B.C., who must travel four hours or more to receive medical care at Campbell River Hospital.

During moments of crisis, this travel time, combined with finding appropriate accommodation near the hospital, can contribute to increased emotional and economic stress for both patients and their families. For Hiltje and her husband David, these stressors made an already difficult situation even more complicated...

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IMAGE: © Courtesy of Campbell River Hospital Foundation