Williams Lake and area residents are advised of temporary changes to emergency department hours at Cariboo Memorial Hospital.

Name: Magalie Knopf (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Social Worker
Years of Service: 1.5 
Worksite: Royal Inland Hospital and Home & Community Care
Community: Kamloops
Ancestral Territory: Secwepemc Nation 

Please see the attached document to learn more about the look, contamination, and risk associated with the current drug alert.

Interior Health (IH) has once again been named a BC Top Employer. We are proud, honoured and humbled to be recognized this year, the 10^th time IH has received the award.

Merritt and area residents are advised of temporary changes to emergency department hours at Nicola Valley Hospital.

Emergency services will be unavailable from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. Patients can access care at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops during this time.

All other inpatient services will continue as normal at Nicola Valley Hospital.

Name: Jonathan Saah (he/him/his)
Job Title: Data Governance Specialist
Years of Service:  7
Worksite: Vernon Jubilee Hospital
Community: Coldstream
Ancestral Territory: syilx Nation

Street outreach Peer Volunteer Nova-Lee Dixon and her colleague Kelly cross the intersection of Oliver Street and Fourth Avenue as they make their rounds in downtown Williams Lake on a chilly winter morning.

Pulling a small blue wagon, they head towards the nearby bus stop across from a local grocery store where a handful of people sit and mingle, bundled up trying to stay warm. The group awaits the approaching Peer Volunteers and it’s clear the visit is welcomed.

Christine Aiken is on stage in front of more than 200 people at the Penticton Lakeside Resort for an event billed the Memory Café. She speaks to the audience without notes nor a pause, then takes questions from the audience for the better part of an hour.

To hear and see Christine, it would be impossible to know she has been living with vascular dementia for more than 10 years.

On January 22, the Health Sciences Academy, a collaborative partnership between Interior Health (IH) and School District 73 (Kamloops-Thompson), celebrated a significant milestone: the successful conclusion of its first-ever semester.

Launched in September 2024, this innovative program gives grade 11 and 12 students a unique opportunity to explore exciting health-care careers by immersing them in a range of in-demand roles.