Drug Supply Advisory Okanagan - November 10, 2021
1 minute
Please see the attached document to learn more about the most recent drug supply advisory for the Okanagan.
Penticton Toxic Drug Alert - November 9, 2021
1 minute
Please see the attached document to learn more about the look, contamination, and risk associated with the current drug alert.
Penticton Toxic Drug Alert – November 3, 2021
1 minute
Please see the attached document to learn more about the look, contamination, and risk associated with the current drug alert.
New 1-800 number expanded to improve access to community care
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Interior Health is making it easier for seniors and others in the Thompson and South Cariboo regions to access and navigate home and community care and chronic disease management services.
Temporary closure of Summerland Health Centre Laboratory
1 minute
Summerland residents are advised of a temporary closure to the Summerland
Health Centre Outpatient Laboratory beginning November 16, 2021.
We are IH: Nikole Johnson
2 minutes
We are IH is a recognition campaign to spotlight Interior Health employees and medical staff – through pictures and stories.
Name: Nikole Johnson
Job Title: Care Aide
Years of Service: One year
Worksite: Talarico Place
Community: Castlegar
Ancestral Territory: Ktunaxa (Tun-ah-hah)/Kootenay Ktunaxa
Favourite Quote: "Be kind, always!" -Unknown
Temporary visitor restrictions at Royal Inland Hospital
1 minute
The public is advised that temporary visitor restrictions are now in place at Royal Inland
Hospital due to COVID-19 activity at the facility. Effective immediately, only essential visitors will be able to attend the site.
Interior Health declares outbreak over at Cottonwoods long-term care in Kelowna
1 minute
Interior Health has declared the COVID-19 outbreak over at Cottonwoods Care Centre
long-term care in Kelowna.
One city’s steps to battle the poisoned drug crisis
3 minutes
Community members who use drugs continue to die from an increasingly toxic and unregulated drug supply. Even occasional users can – and do – experience fatal overdoses.
The City of Penticton has been one of the hardest hit communities in the Interior region, with a fatal overdose rate of 59.3 deaths for every 100,000 people (BC Coroner’s Service, January-August 2021). By comparison, the fatal overdose rate for the entire Interior Health region over the same period is 41.9 deaths for every 100,000 people.