{"id":732961,"date":"2026-06-12T23:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732961\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:03:45","slug":"this-b-c-hospital-is-providing-eye-masks-earplugs-as-hallway-medicine-a-reality-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732961\/","title":{"rendered":"This B.C. hospital is providing eye masks, earplugs as hallway medicine a reality &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A B.C. hospital is taking measures to help patients forced to spend time in hallways be a little more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Peace Arch Hospital is now providing eye masks and earplugs to patients receiving care in hallways and other overflow spaces.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot project was launched after a survey of 30 patients in hallways found their biggest complaints were noise, bright lights and cold temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor behind the initiative acknowledges that hallway medicine is not ideal for any patients, but says it is the reality for many in B.C.\u2019s health-care system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIdeally, yes, you don\u2019t want to have hallway beds. But that\u2019s not within my power,\u201d Dr. Amir Behboudi, a Peace Arch Hospital Emergency Department physician, said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/healthiq.jpg\" alt=\"Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet weekly health news<\/p>\n<p>Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin my power is what can I do to make the patient stay a little more comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Behboudi said that sleep is so important for healing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that when people sleep, their pain threshold gets better,\u201d he added. \u201cIt means they require less pain medication and there\u2019s less side effects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Vancouver General Hospital\u2019s new chemo robot'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/VGH_CHEMO_ROBOT_thumbnail_1280x720_.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:15<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVancouver General Hospital\u2019s new chemo robot\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Health<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The project is supported by the Peace Arch Hospital Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as overcrowding continues to strain hospitals across the province, with opposition politicians concerned about the reliance on hallway care.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser Health says it is now looking at whether similar measures could be used at hospitals in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A B.C. hospital is taking measures to help patients forced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,263700,263699],"class_list":["post-732961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-peace-arch-hospital","tag-peace-arch-hospital-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}