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Update April 2026: The T2D Network was awarded a $10,000 Peace Arch Hospital Foundation grant for community type 2 diabetes screening sessions.


Advance Care Planning Is Not About Death. It's About Not Wasting the Health System's Most Expensive Moments.
Avoidable hospital admissions at the end of life are among the costliest and most distressing failures in health care. Advance care planning reduces them – and BC has the infrastructure to scale it. Here's the case.
ihsts2023
3 min read


Multimorbidity Is Now the Norm, Not the Exception. BC's Health System Is Still Designed for One Disease at a Time.
More than a third of adults globally live with two or more chronic conditions. BC's care model was built around single diseases. Here's why that mismatch is costing the system, and what integrated care actually looks like.
ihsts2023
3 min read


BC Spent $35 Billion on Health Last Year. Prevention Got a Fraction of That.
BC's Ministry of Health budget hit $35 billion in 2025–26. Chronic disease drives the majority of that spending. Here's why the current funding logic is structurally backwards — and what would actually change the trajectory.
ihsts2023
3 min read


What Finland Figured Out About Diabetes Prevention and What We Can Learn
Finland cut type 2 diabetes incidence by more than 50% through community-based prevention at scale. The evidence has been available for two decades.
IHSTS
4 min read


Rural BC's Health Equity Problem: Designing for Cities and Wondering Why It Doesn't Work
Rural BC communities carry the highest chronic disease burden yet receive solutions designed for urban settings. Here's why community-led design isn't idealism, it's the evidence-based alternative.
IHSTS
4 min read


Food Is Medicine. So Why Isn't BC's Health System Prescribing It?
Evidence now supports dietary intervention as a path to type 2 diabetes remission. So why does BC's primary care system still treat nutrition as an afterthought? A look at the gap and the opportunity.
IHSTS
3 min read


Palliative Care in BC: Still Too Dependent on Where You Live
BC exceeds hospice bed benchmarks but equity in end-of-life care remains unfinished work. A look at the access gaps, eligibility inequities, and integration challenges that still need solving.
IHSTS
3 min read


The Pilot Graveyard: Why BC's Health System Keeps Solving the Same Problems
80% of health innovations fail to scale globally. In BC, the pattern is familiar and costly. Here's what system leaders need to understand about why good pilots die, and what to do instead.
IHSTS
3 min read


Why BC's Type 2 Diabetes Crisis Demands a Network Response, Not Another Pilot Project
BC faces a 44% projected rise in type 2 diabetes prevalence. Here's why sustained provincial network infrastructure, not more pilots, is the only path to equitable, lasting impact.
IHSTS
3 min read
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