People

• 300,000+ people work in healthcare in B.C.
• 80% of the health workforce in B.C. identifies as female
• 50,000+   Hospital Employees’ Union members
• 48,000+   BC Nurses’ Union members
• 20,000     BC General Employees’ Union health sector specific members
• 20,000+  Health Sciences Association
• 14,000     Doctors of BC 
• 4,400       Ambulance paramedics and ambulance dispatchers
• 1,400       Resident Doctors of BC

Employers

• Fraser Health – serving 1.4 million people with 40,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers About Fraser Health – Fraser Health Authority
• Vancouver Coastal – serving 1.2 million people with 17,000 staff VCH-fact-sheet_10.22.2020_V6
• Island Health – serving 850,000 people with 25,500 staff and medical staff About Us | Island Health
• Interior Health (IH) – serving 834,000 people with 23,000 staff and medical staff ih-quick-facts.png (5660×3126) (interiorhealth.ca)
• Provincial Health Services Association (PHSA) – province-wide services at specialized hospitals including BC Children’s and BC Cancer, and BC Ambulance Service, Patient Transfer Services and deliver, in collaboration with health authorities, cardiac, trauma, stroke and perinatal services with staff and medical staff of more than 23,000
• Northern Health – serving 300,000 with 7,000 staff Quick facts | Northern Health

Affiliates – Of B.C.’s 308 long-term care home, 55% are private for profit or private non-profit employing hundreds of people from frontline healthcare staff to administration and support workers.