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

Caring for someone with dementia can spark a range of emotions – and these will change over time. Everyone’s dementia journey is different: some people will live long and fulfilling lives at home. Others may decline quickly and will need specialized care in the community. 

Name: Jenna Hunter (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Interim Regional Knowledge Coordinator/Internationally Educated Nurses – Clinical Education
Years of Service: 18
Worksite: Vernon Jubilee Hospital
Community: Vernon 
Ancestral Territory: Syilx Nation

Oliver and area residents are advised of temporary changes to emergency department hours at South Okanagan General Hospital due to limited physician availability.

Emergency services will be unavailable from 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 12 to 7 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 13. Patients can access care at Penticton Regional Hospital during this time.

Name: Marie Vajda (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Administrative Services Manager
Years of Service: 6
Worksite: Penticton Health Centre  
Community: South Okanagan 
Ancestral Territory: Syilx
Favourite Quote / Advice to live by: “Don't stress. Take it one email, one request and one day at a time.” And “sorry—my crystal ball is broken!”

A period of significantly colder weather will begin to affect the province from Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024 to Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. It is expected that we will see temperatures plummeting to well below average with the coldest air lingering over Central & Northern B.C. There will be a combination of cold, snow and wind-chill.   

As the snow falls, and we prepare to enjoy our favorite winter activities, it is important to remain prepared and stay protected from risky weather situations. There's always potential for freezing cold temperatures in the winter. Here's what you can do to ensure you and your family remain safe and healthy.

After a mild winter throughout the B.C. Interior, the snow we’ve been anticipating has finally arrived. 

It’s an exciting time for ski and snowboard enthusiasts. It’s also a time when we pull out the shovels to clear our driveways, although hopefully not too often. 

Shovelling snow can be an inconvenience, but may also cause injury, mainly to your back and shoulders.

However, injuries can be prevented with the right approach.

If you find yourself forgetting names, misplacing keys or not remembering your granddaughter's birthday, it's natural to feel worried it could be a sign of dementia. As we explored in our previous story, memory loss and difficulties often come with age, but don't always mean you're developing dementia. 

In this story, we explore how dementia is diagnosed, and what happens after a diagnosis, both for the individual with dementia and their family.

Interior Health would like to clarify an internal memo related to COVID-19 testing changes that is circulating on social media.

Rapid antigen tests (RAT) detect infections in more than 70 to 80 per cent of patients with COVID-19 and are a great tool within the community to help inform members of the public if they could be infected with COVID-19 to help them prevent spread of the virus to others.