Medications are prescribed to treat symptoms and to manage medical conditions or mitigate the risk of future events. It’s important to take the right medication at the right time and in the right dose. When we don’t take medications properly, it can lead to ineffectiveness, side effects and possibly even harm.
Interior Health is adding 17 new positions this spring to continue expanding mental health and substance use supports for people in Kamloops and the surrounding area.
“People throughout the Kamloops area will benefit from this major expansion of mental health and substance-use services,” said Sheila Malcolmson, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions. “Our government is transforming mental health and substance-use care in every B.C. community, and building a system of care that did not exist five years ago.”
Housing is both a basic need and a human right. And yet, many people in the Interior Health region are without homes.
The reasons behind why someone may become homeless are complex, interconnected and are no fault of the individual. In fact, homelessness can happen to anyone – and the stigma associated with not having a home can create barriers to healthy living opportunities for those who are experiencing homelessness.
Document : drug-alert-penticton-march 25-2022.pdf
Please see the attached document to learn more about the look, contamination, and risk associated with the current drug alert.
Name: Janet Quesnel (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Registered Nurse
Years of Service: 35
Worksite: Ashcroft Hospital & Health Centre
Community: Ashcroft
Ancestral Territory: Nlaka’pamux
Advice to live by: Treat others as you expect to be treated, and respect others as you expect them to respect you.
Interior Health is pleased to report that a new radiology room is being well used by people in Chase and the surrounding area since opening earlier this year.
After opening to patients on Jan. 31, 2022, the new machine has produced more than 350 patient exams with some patients needing more than one X-ray per visit.
People in Kamloops and throughout the Thompson, Cariboo and Shuswap regions are closer to improved access to health-care services as the construction phase completes for the Phil & Jennie Gaglardi Tower at Royal Inland Hospital (RIH).
Nurse Simomo Ndebele says both patients & health-care professionals will benefit from the new Phil & Jennie Gaglardi Tower at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops.
