Name: Carmen Gauthier (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Patient Registration and Switchboard Operator
Years of Service: 4 years
Worksite: Elk Valley Hospital
Community: Fernie
Ancestral Territory: Ktunaxa
Advice to live by: If you're happy and you know it, share the love.

Life has changed in some way for everyone since the COVID-19 pandemic began. For those who work in health care, those changes have been felt both at home and at work. 

In late 2020, Interior Health put together a team of nine pandemic health coordinators, who coordinate supports for people who need extra assistance to self-isolate due to COVID-19. To date, the team has supported more than 2,300 people to isolate safely.

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Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops has just hired 28 brand new nurses, a few of whom haven't even graduated yet.

It's part of an ongoing effort to increase the numbers of nursing staff in communities where they're needed most.

“Royal Inland Hospital is a great partner and has employed many graduates in the past. We are pleased that they have streamlined the hiring process which allows nursing students to know they will have a job prior to graduation,” says Rani H. Srivastava, Dean of Nursing at Thompson Rivers University.

Researchers at the Interior Health Clinical Research Department would like to better understand the safety and effectiveness if a different COVID-19 vaccine product is used for the third dose. 

Interior Health is taking a phased approach to resume services that were temporarily paused last month due to COVID-19. The service adjustments, announced Jan. 18, were implemented to preserve safe and reliable access to patient care across the Interior region. 

Name: Wesley Noppers (he/him/his)
Job Title: Business Consultant
Years of Service: 11 years
Worksite: Community Health & Services Centre
Community: Kelowna
Ancestral Territory: Sylix
Advice to live by: Be a good person, surround yourself with good people, and good things will happen. 

Please see the attached document to learn more about the look, contamination, and risk associated with the current drug alert. 

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Pictured above: Team "Nitro Glistening"     

Okanagan residents have been putting their hearts and skiis into raising money for cardiac care recently.

The Kelowna Nordic Ski & Snowshoe Club's Stride & Glide event raised more than $48,000 for cardiac care at Kelowna General Hospital.

"The city is growing fast and that means a lot more hearts to care for at our hospital"
- Shannon ( emergency room nurse)

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