For the 20th year, Santa brings holiday cheer to hospitalized children on a very special sleigh

On Dec. 10, Santa took flight on a BCEHS air ambulance to visit children at six B.C. hospitals including BC Children’s Hospital.

Helijet and BCEHS celebrate 20 years of “Santa Flights” and bringing Christmas cheer to kids in BC hospitals

2023/2024 BCEHS Progress Report

​The BCEHS Progress Report provides a snapshot of our organization, our people, and our work over the 2023/2024 fiscal year.

Indigenous Cultural Advisor Amber Lochbaum shares her work supporting culturally safe care

Amber is one of five Indigenous Cultural Advisors at BCEHS doing the challenging and vital work of forging new and better relationships between the organization and the many Indigenous communities they serve.

BCEHS Clinical Hub wins national health care innovation award

BCEHS initiative to provide alternative care pathways for patients gains national recognition as the Clinical Hub team expands.

Qwayacnit Hakuum (Natalee Dennis) shares the meaning of BCEHS’s 50th anniversary logos

Over the next year, BCEHS is recognizing the 50th anniversary of BC’s provincial ambulance service. As part of the celebrations of this landmark milestone, we’ve introduced two new 50th anniversary logos, developed by Qwayacnit Hakuum (Natalee Dennis).

BCEHS celebrates the graduation of five paramedics from UBC's medical school

Paramedicine offers many career pathways and opportunities for further training. Five BCEHS paramedics are bringing the skills and patient-care experience they gained to their new careers in medicine.

New air ambulances are taking flight in B.C.

Patients requiring emergency travel for medical care will benefit from a new state-of-the-art fleet of air ambulance airplanes.

A bridge connecting patients to care: A conversation with Genta Balla of Patient Transfer Services

“I like to call myself a 911 service for hospitals,” says Gentiana (Genta) Balla. Genta has worked as an Interfacility Emergency Medical Call Taker (IEMCT) at BC Emergency Health Service’s Patient Transfer Network for over 15 years.