About Interior Health
Quick Facts
- Area Population: 732,000
18% over age 65
- Budget: $1.6 Billion (2009-10)
- 18,523 Employees
- 1,706 Physicians
- 1,151 Mental Health & Addiction Beds (updated Oct 09)
- 16 Community Hospitals
- 4 Service Area Hospitals
- 2 Tertiary Referral Hospitals
- 6,131 Residential Assisted Living Beds and Supportive Housing Units
- 58 Municipalities
- 95 Unincorporated Places
- 10 Regional Districts
- 53 First Nation Communities
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Interior Health (IH) was established as one of five geographically-based health authorities in 2001 by the Government of British Columbia. It is responsible for ensuring publicly funded health services are provided to the people of the Southern Interior.Interior Health serves a large geographic area covering almost 215-thousand square kilometres and includes larger cities such as Kelowna, Kamloops, Cranbrook, Penticton and Vernon, and a multitude of rural and remote communities.
The key areas in services provided include:
Within IH, services are delivered through a complex regional “network of care” that includes hospitals, community health centres, residential assisted living facilities, mental health housing, primary health clinics, homes, schools, and other community settings.
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