Regional Hospitals
Interior Health’s system of Regional Hospitals brings together the best people, equipment and expertise to provide specialized care in Cranbrook, Trail, Vernon, Penticton, Kelowna and Kamloops. Each Regional Hospital is responsible for providing core medical and surgical specialty services to patients throughout its service area.
Service Area Hospitals in Cranbrook, Trail, Vernon and Penticton provide acute care beds, obstetrical care and all the other services you can expect at a Community Hospital. They also offer:
- Laboratory (Lab Level 3) and radiology/diagnostic imaging services.
- 24-hour emergency services, ideally with in-house physicians. Emergency services at a service area hospital provide a higher level of trauma care than a community hospital.
- Core physician specialties such as internal medicine, general surgery, orthopedics, anesthesia, obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, radiology, pathology and emergency medicine.
- Some sub-specialized, physician services for medical and surgical programs.
The Regional Hospitals in Kelowna and Kamloops offer the same services as the four Service Area Hospitals, but with added levels of care. These facilities, known as Tertiary Referral Hospitals, also provide:
- 24-hour emergency services that may include trauma services.
- Advanced diagnostics such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear medicine and cardiac catheterization.
- Higher levels/sub-specialties of almost all medical and surgical services.
- Tertiary services for patients with multi-system failure and those requiring vascular surgery, thoracic surgery or neurosurgery.
Services Area Hospitals
Tertiary Referral Hospitals