We are IH: Candace Baptiste

2 minutes

We are IH is a recognition campaign to spotlight Interior Health employees and medical staff – through pictures and stories.

Name: Candace Baptiste

Job Title: Nursing Assistant

Years of Service: 12 years

Worksite: Sunnybank Centre

Community: Oliver

Ancestral Territory: Syilx

Advice to live by: Everyone should treat people the way they would like to be treated.

Wobble rooms help health-care workers unwind and connect

2 minutes

Whether it's stretching, reading, or just relaxing, wobble rooms like this one at Kelowna General Hospital are becoming a refuge for health-care workers in Interior Health.

As the COVID-19 pandemic and toxic drug crisis continue to challenge health-care workers in their day-to-day work, the question continues to arise about how people can protect their psychological safety while dealing with the demands they face in the workplace. 

Pause for Wellness: Giving yourself permission

2 minutes

In Pause for Wellness, people in the Interior Health community share their personal stories, journeys, and insights about health and well-being.


With the help of some amazing mental health professionals and a lot of reading, I’ve been learning about who I am and understanding my "authentic self".

Lately, I’ve been thinking more about why I don't always live and behave like that person. And I've started to understand that permission has been getting in my way.

Language matters at Cranbrook urgent and primary care centre

4 minutes

Ktunaxa Nation cultural educator Jared Basil presents a drum to Interior Health’s Shannon Statham, at a Ktunaxa Nation drum ceremony at the newly opened Cranbrook urgent and primary care centre. A welcome to the building in Ktunaxa language is on the front door, the exterior sign, and other places in the facility.

 

For as long as he can remember, Jared Basil has loved to dance.

Every May long weekend, dressed in full regalia, he dances to the drums of the Lower Kootenay Band at its annual Yaqan Nukiy Pow Wow.

We are IH: Tracey Thoss

2 minutes

We are IH is a recognition campaign to spotlight Interior Health employees and medical staff – through pictures and stories.

Name: Tracey Thoss 

Job Title: Administrative Services 

Years of Service: 3 Years

Worksite: Kamloops Mental Health and Substance Use

Community: Kamloops

Ancestral Territory: Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (TteS) territory