Interior Health continues to gradually resume regular operations at the Nicola Valley Hospital.

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

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BC Provincial Emergency Alert - Emergency Response Across BC

The flooding/road closures may cause disruptions to the illicit drug supply across BC, which can increase toxicity and risk of overdose. There is no shortage of naloxone in BC and we are working to ensure distribution to sites across the province.

Read the full alert from Toward the Heart.

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Audiologist Jowan Lee of St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver is working with Interior Health patients to adjust their cochlear implants with digital health technology.

Ponderosa Lodge social worker Shirley Shanks could not believe it when she got a call setting up a virtual audiology appointment for one of her long-term care clients with a malfunctioning cochlear implant.

Rather than going to Vancouver, Cathy, who uses a wheelchair, was transported five minutes away to the virtual care clinic at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops. 

Kari Wutzke is one of several members of the public lending their voices and perspectives to the design of a new Interior Health person-centred website. 

Although her participation in this project began a year ago, she has a lifetime of experience as a patient and someone who uses InteriorHealth.ca to get health information and access services. 

Environment and Climate Change Canada has issued a severe weather notification in advance of the third of three atmospheric river systems expected to hit the central coast of B.C. between the evening of Nov. 29 and Dec. 2.

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Interior Health is lifting the COVID-19 regional medical health officer Gatherings and Events Order.

Children in Interior Health five to 11 years old will be able to get their COVID-19 vaccine starting this week.

Interior Health is hosting drop-in immunization clinics in Beaverdell, Balfour and Fauquier next week for people 18 and older who are due for their COVID-19 booster dose and for children age five to 11 to get the COVID-19 pediatric vaccine.

Interior Health is planning whole community immunization clinics in rural and remote communities for people 18 and older who are due for their COVID-19 booster dose and for children age five to 11 to get the COVID-19 pediatric vaccine.