With influenza season approaching, it’s time to get vaccinated.

Right across Canada, more than ever, we need people of all ages and walks of life to get vaccinated against influenza.

We Are IH is a new recognition campaign to spotlight our people in a real way – through pictures and stories that allow their authenticity to shine through! Each week we will showcase an Interior Health employee who is working to make a difference in their community.

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Ken radiates positive energy and makes being at work a happy place simply with his presence. Over the past 12 years as a Housekeeper at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH), he has been inspired by working with patients in need, more recently in his current department, the Psychiatry Ward.

As part of the ongoing construction of the Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) Patient Care Tower, access to Ponderosa Lodge from Fourth Avenue will be temporarily closed beginning Oct. 7, 2020.

We Are IH is a new recognition campaign to spotlight our people in a real way – through pictures and stories that allow their authenticity to shine through! Each month, four Interior Health employees or medical staff will be featured through our News@IH website and our weekly In the Loop Roundup email newsletter. 

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Sean Adams thrives in challenging and high-pressure situations, so naturally, being the Patient Care Coordinator (PCC) at the High Acuity Response Team (HART) is a position that he excels in.

Interior Health advises a fifth COVID-19 case related to the Calvary Chapel outbreak in Kelowna has been confirmed. Anyone who attended services on Sept. 20th is directed to self-isolate until Oct. 4.

Interior Health is declaring an outbreak of COVID-19 at Calvary Chapel Kelowna and advising anyone who attended a morning church service on Sept. 13 that they may have been exposed to COVID-19.

We Are IH is a new recognition campaign to spotlight our people in a real way – through pictures and stories that allow their authenticity to shine through! Each month, four Interior Health employees or medical staff will be featured through our News@IH website and our weekly In the Loop Roundup email newsletter. 

Interior Health is advising anyone who attended the pub in the Coldwater Hotel on Sept. 19 between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. that they may have been exposed to COVID-19.

The Royal Inland Hospital Patient Care Tower Project in Kamloops has reached a significant milestone, bringing the hospital project another step closer to enhancing care for patients in Kamloops and the Thompson Cariboo Shuswap region, through a new state-of-the-art tower.