The Mobile Medical Unit is rolling towards home after a successful deployment at Cariboo Memorial Hospital (CMH) in Williams Lake.

With the hospital needing to undergo significant renovations as a result of a pipe bursting in -30C weather in February, the MMU team was able to support CMH while also juggling COVID-19 related deployments like the alternate care site at Vancouver Convention Centre and an outbreak at Abbotsford Hospital.

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.

Working as an environmental health officer (also known as a public health inspector), you never know what the day might bring.

You might find yourself inspecting drinking water systems, restaurants, public swimming pools, or tanning salons. We also investigate public health complaints, disease outbreaks, industrial camps, and special events.

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.

The past seven months reflect some of most turbulent times our country has seen, so if you are feeling anxious and confused, I understand.

At 82 years of age, Win Mott speaks of very few health-care complaints. The Trail resident knows he should pay attention to eating well in order to stay healthy, and he can envision needing some physiotherapy down the road to ease the pains that accompany aging.

Win also knows he’ll have easy access to health-care providers who will work together and with him to address those needs and any others, thanks to the new primary care network now launched in the Kootenay Boundary region.

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. 

As part of the ongoing construction of the Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) Patient Care Tower, patient access to RIH will be temporarily changed beginning Monday, Sept. 21, 2020.

Interior Health (IH) is urging attendees of a camping event at the Bombi Summit (between Castlegar and Salmo) to self-monitor after a large gathering occurred Sept. 12 and 13, 2020.

People in British Columbia will soon have more options to get quality teambased health care closer to home.