Medical mask policy in effect during respiratory illness season
Masks are currently required in all patient care areas of hospitals, long-term care facilities and community health-care sites and clinics. Please do not enter these facilities if you have cold or flu-like symptoms, such as runny nose, sore throat, fever, cough, shortness of breath/trouble breathing, diarrhea or vomiting. Do not enter these facilities if you feel unwell, no matter how mild the symptoms.
Visitors to long-term care and seniors’ assisting living facilities need to wear a medical mask in common areas and when participating in indoor events in common areas.
Thank you for helping keep patients and staff healthy this season.
Squamish General Hospital is a 20-bed acute care facility that provides acute, community and primary health services to more than 270,000 residents in rural and urban settings living on the North Shore, in Sea-to-Sky Country, on the Sunshine Coast and in Powell River.
Services include
- General medicine and surgery
- Obstetrics
- Palliative care
- Physiotherapy
- Pharmacy services
- Diagnostic imaging
- Laboratory services
- Ambulatory care
- Chemotherapy
- Emergency medicine
38140 Behrner Drive
Squamish, BC
V8B 0J3
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