Ashcroft and area residents are advised that due to temporary limited staffing availability, the emergency department (ED) at the Ashcroft Hospital and Community Health Care Centre will close overnight on the weekend, including from midnight tonight until tomorrow at 8 a.m.

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

 

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Name: Michael-Ann Miller (She/Her)

Worksite: Princeton General Hospital

Janet Costa and her husband Sam were vacationing in Mexico several years ago when Sam suffered a major heart attack.

It has been five years since the Provincial Health Officer declared a public health emergency in response to the significant rise in opioid-related overdose deaths reported in B.C.

In homes, schools, sports arenas and workplaces across our region, someone is missing.

Five years ago the increasing number of opioid overdoses prompted the Province to declare a public health emergency. Since then across Interior Health, more than 1,117* family members, friends, coworkers, teammates, neighbours and friends have been lost to overdose.

Interior Health’s immunization program is rolling out across the region, much to the relief of many people searching for a “light at the end of the tunnel” during the pandemic.

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

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Interior Health has declared the COVID-19 outbreak over in unit 5B at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH).

People in Williams Lake and the Cariboo-Chilcotin are a step closer to an expanded, renovated Cariboo Memorial Hospital (CMH) with Graham Design Builders LP selected as the project proponent.

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