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.
Summerland residents are advised of a temporary closure to the Summerland
Health Centre Outpatient Laboratory beginning November 16, 2021.
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
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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 has declared the COVID-19 outbreak over at Cottonwoods Care Centre
long-term care in Kelowna.
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.
We are IH is a recognition campaign to spotlight Interior Health employees and medical staff – through pictures and stories.
Name: Charles Wincott
Job Title: Supervisor, Biomedical Engineering, IH West
Years of Service: Three
Worksite: Royal Inland Hospital
Community: Kamloops
Ancestral Territory: Secwépemc (She-whep-m) / Shuswap Interior Salish
We are IH is a recognition campaign to spotlight Interior Health employees and medical staff – through pictures and stories.
Name: Ashley Latimer (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Medical Radiation Technologist
Years of Service: 11
Worksite: Cariboo Memorial Hospital
Community: Williams Lake
Ancestral Territory: Secwepemc (She-whep-m)/Shuswap Interior Salish
Please see the attached document to learn more about the look, contamination, and risk associated with the current drug alert.
Please see the attached document to learn more about the look, contamination, and risk associated with the current drug alert.
