The best way to protect children and families from influenza is to get the influenza vaccine.
In B.C., everyone six months and older is recommended to get an annual influenza vaccine. Getting vaccinated is especially important for those at greatest risk from infection including children under five years of age, adults 65 years and older, people who are pregnant and people with chronic illnesses.
Interior Health and RCMP are enhancing the successful partnership programs in Kelowna and Kamloops by hiring additional staff in each community and expanding operating hours to provide this specialized crisis response service 12 hours per day, seven days per week.
Name: Rebecca Myers (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Patient Registration Clerk
Years of Service: 20
Worksite: Cariboo Memorial Hospital
Community: Williams Lake
Ancestral Territory: Secwepemc
Advice to live by: You can die in debt.
Please see the attached document to learn more about the look, contamination, and risk associated with the current drug alert.
Please see the attached document to learn more about the look, contamination, and risk associated with the current drug alert.
The District of 100 Mile House, situated on the traditional territory of the Secwepemc people, firmly supports the mindset that road safety is everyone’s business. With a population of just 15,000 in the district, it’s a small but progressive community. In fact, 100 Mile House has lowered all the speed limits on their municipal roads to 30 km/h, the same speed for school zones and playgrounds during posted hours.
Name: Dr. Carol Ward (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Geriatric psychiatrist
Years of Service: 17
Worksite: Royal Inland Hospital
Community: Kamloops
Ancestral Territory: Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc
Advice to live by: Be curious.
Interior Health has been running a program that gives people who have lived with or have living experience with substance use the opportunity to get involved and share their voice.
IH’s Peer Inclusion and Engagement Project offers a variety of ways that people can share their expertise: through employment with IH as a Peer Support Worker, or through Peer Advisory Group and Peer Volunteer roles (both of which pay honorariums).
