BC's Health Organizations

The Ministry of Health Services (MoHS) collaborates with British Columbia’s 5 regional health authorities (Northern Health; Interior Health; Vancouver Island Health; Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health) along with Provincial Health Services, Providence Healthcare and BC Ambulance Service to provide quality, appropriate and timely health services to British Columbians and to implement all-hazard emergency and business continuity plans

Health Emergency Management Council

The Health Emergency Management Council (HEMC) was established in 2000 and is facilitated by the Emergency Management Unit (EMU), each of BC’s Health Authorities, Provincial Health Services Authority including BC Centre for Disease Control, Providence Health Care and BC Ambulance Service. 

HEMC provides emergency management oversight and leadership across the provincial health system with a scope to:

• Provide advice and support to BC Health System on emergency management issues
• Recommend and facilitate the development and implementation of provincial emergency management guidelines, standards, policy and procedures
• Facilitate exercises to test and or validate emergency plans
• Provide primary point of contact for health sector emergency management
• Review, make recommendations on and /or endorse the work produced by related emergency management initiatives