Salmon Arm physician honours wife in Shuswap campaign

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Retired Salmon Arm physician Brian Ayotte is thrilled Shuswap Lake General Hospital (SLGH) will be establishing a new, full scope mammography program.

The former cardiologist and past-president of the Shuswap Hospital Foundation (SHF), Brian lost his wife Gail to breast cancer last April. Like most breast health patients, she spent time travelling to either Vernon or Kamloops for service.

First patient impressed with new Penticton emergency department

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It still had that “new car” smell.

That was one of the first impressions Oliver resident Lars (last name withheld by request) had when he arrived at Penticton Regional Hospital’s new emergency department (ED) after an unfortunate early morning car accident on Feb. 2.

As a precaution, Lars was taken to PRH to be checked out and, as luck would have it, ended up being the first patient in a new section of the PRH ED, which had opened the same day.