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We are proud, honoured, and humbled to be acknowledged as a 2023 BC Top Employer for the ninth time. And, for the first time, Interior Health is a recipient of Canada’s Top Employers for Young People award.
What makes IH a top employer?
It’s all thanks to our people. Our employees and medical staff are innovative, dedicated and compassionate. Their commitment to serving communities across the southern Interior is what makes us a Top 100 B.C. Employer.
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You’ll find everything you’ve been searching for both personally and professionally through a career with Interior Health. We strive to create an environment where you enjoy the work you do, where you do it, and the people around you. Together, we make a difference to our community and the residents who live within it. Discover the benefits and career satisfaction that our growing organization has to offer you.
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We provide many mental health and substance use services. We strive to ensure our services are welcoming to all people, gender identities, cultures, ethnicities and backgrounds.
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We offer a range of seniors health services alongside our partner agencies. We aim to make our services person-centred, welcoming of all peoples, gender identities, cultures, ethnicities and backgrounds.
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Community & Culture
Carl Meadows is a name synonymous with Pride season at Interior Health (IH), having contributed greatly to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community both at IH and within the wider Okanagan community. As Carl’s retirement draws near, and to mark his last Pride Month with IH, we wanted to send him off in style. Read on for our interview to celebrate his career and efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
Name: Carl Meadows (he/him/his)Job Title: Executive director, clinical operations, South OkanaganYears of Service: 7Worksite: Penticton Regional Hospital (PRH)Community: PentictonAncestral Territory: Syilx/Okanagan Interior Salish
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Health & Wellness
When it comes to stroke, minutes can save lives and loved ones.
“Our goal in working together to prevent and treat stroke is really to give people back those essential moments. This is not only walking again, talking again, and eating again, as we used to focus on for a ‘good’ outcome. These moments are dancing, laughing, traveling, holding hands on an evening walk, and all those things that make life a good life,” says Dr. Aleksander Tkach, Interior Health's Stroke Services Medical Director.
“In a stroke every second counts. Every second we save by all working together to treat a stroke gives people back those moments in life that are precious.”
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David Mackie has suffered two major concussions in his football career. He says he’s lucky they haven’t ended his career in the Canadian Football League, but it’s something that weighs heavily on his mind.
“It’s something we’re always cognizant about for player safety and it’s not only going to affect your current career but also your life down the road,” noted the Canadian fullback for the B.C. Lions.
In the first part of a new series called Safety First: IH’s Guide to Safe Sport, Interior Health looks at concussions --- their impacts and how to prevent them.
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Name: Kathleen (Katie) Keegan (she/her/hers)Job Title: Perinatal Social Worker, Primary Care Network Years of Service: 6 Worksite: Rutland Health Centre Community: Kelowna Ancestral Territory: Syilx NationFavourite Quote / Advice to live by: "Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness." – Kurt Vonnegut
Perinatal social worker Katie Keegan has been passionate about helping others and acknowledging and supporting the inherent power of women throughout her life and career. Born and raised in Kelowna, Katie always had a natural, helping nature, and an interest in pregnancy and babies – qualities which informed the trajectory of her career. Katie says, “As a girl I was taught that I could do or be anything and I think that really stuck with me.”
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