One of the most vulnerable times in someone’s substance use journey can be when they leave a hospital. After an overdose or medical crisis, it can be easy for them to fall through the cracks without help and supports.

Substance Use Connections, launched at Interior Health (IH) in 2019 in response to the toxic drug crisis, is a vital bridge between hospitals and community health services and supports.

When Interior Health (IH) recruiter Elizabeth Leston walks into a WorkBC job fair in Kamloops, she’s greeted by familiar faces.

For the past two and a half years, Elizabeth has been working closely with the WorkBC Centre – Kamloops Thompson team, a partnership focused on helping local job seekers find meaningful, lasting careers in health care.

To commemorate National Addictions Awareness Week, members of Yaqan Nuʔkiy (Lower Kootenay Band), Interior Health staff, and Creston community members came together on Friday, Nov. 21 for the fifth annual Canoe Walk, showing solidarity and support for those impacted by the toxic drug crisis, which disproportionately affects Indigenous Peoples and communities across Canada.

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

Name: Kelly Monks (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Registered Nurse, Emergency
Length of Service: Six months
Worksite: Kelowna General Hospital
Community: Kelowna
Ancestral Territory: syilx

Interior Health (IH) provides health services to close to 900,000 people across the Interior region of B.C. But it takes more than health-care services to keep people healthy—it also takes well-run, safe facilities. 

Heating, cooling and ventilation (HVAC) systems quietly safeguard patient safety, comfort and air quality every day. 

By managing the way our buildings use and generate energy, we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, lower utility costs, and create healthier spaces for patients and staff while reducing the impact we have on the environment. 

100 Mile House and area residents are advised of temporary changes to emergency department hours at 100 Mile House District General Hospital.

Emergency services will be unavailable from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. Patients can access care at Cariboo Memorial Hospital in Williams Lake during this time.

All other inpatient services will continue at 100 Mile House District General Hospital.

Despite living with kidney disease and having needed life-sustaining hemodialysis treatments for the past eight years, Leno Benetton, who just turned 97, is living a full life as British Columbia’s oldest dialysis patient.

UPDATE: Temporary service interruption extended at 100 Mile District General Hospital emergency department

100 Mile House and area residents are advised that further temporary changes to emergency department hours at 100 Mile House District General Hospital have been extended due to travel impacts on medical staff.