Keremeos and area residents are advised of a temporary change to the emergency department hours at the South Similkameen Health Centre due to limited physician availability.
The holidays are a time for celebration, connection and making memories—not collisions.
While many of us know the risks of drinking and driving, cannabis can also impair your ability to drive safely. One in four cannabis users admit to driving within four hours of consuming, even though THC, the main psychoactive compound in cannabis, can affect you for six hours or longer.
A new program is helping patients like Tim Goode, who spent eight long months at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) after having a brain tumour removed in February.
Following the surgery, Tim made it home for only a day before returning to KGH by ambulance and being diagnosed with meningitis. This resulted in a few mini strokes, which caused weakness in his left side and required extensive rehab.
“I was right back in the hospital again for several weeks,” he notes.
Starting this week, patients visiting four Interior Health (IH) emergency departments (EDs) may receive care from a physician working virtually. This is part of IH LINK-ED (Local Integrated Network for Emergency Departments), a new virtual care pilot designed to modernize emergency care services for rural communities.
Celebrating opening of improved neonatal intensive care unit at East Kootenay Regional Hospital
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Interior Health (IH) is advising the public of health risks at the Spruce Hill Resort due to contraventions with the BC Public Health Act and Drinking Water Protection Act.
Name: Naomi Jensen (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Executive Director, Quality & Patient Safety
Length of Service: 29 years
Worksite: Regional
Community: Kamloops
Ancestral Territory: Secwépemc
The first steps of a review of the health authorities have been completed, which included reducing administrative costs, and work is underway to improve efficiencies and redirect savings to frontline services.
For liver transplant recipient Tony Maidment, going department by department at Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) to drop off holiday goodies for the staff who helped him is cathartic.
