Name: Natasha Nel
Job Title: Accounts Receivable - Accounting Assistant
Years of Service: 21
Worksite: Lansdowne Centre
Community: Kamloops
Ancestral Territory: T'Kemlups  
Favourite Quote / Advice to live by: Try to be kind, helpful, and share knowledge.  Learning doesn't stop after school.

Interior Health (IH) is proud to announce the opening of a new interventional radiology (IR) suite at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH), which will benefit patients from across the health authority.

This new suite is designed to offer minimally invasive procedures for the diagnosis, treatment of various medical conditions such as:

When you hear the word ‘psychosis,’ what words and images come to mind? Have you ever heard someone call something or someone else ‘psychotic?’

Psychosis can be a heavy-sounding word for what is a treatable mental health condition. Like many other mental illnesses, however, it also comes with stigma and shame.

Interior Health is removing the toxic algae bloom advisory for N’Kwala (Nicola) Lake. 

Recent water samples taken by BC Parks at Monck Park have tested negative for the presence of cyanobacterial toxin. Lake users should use caution if they see signs of an algae bloom. It is best to avoid contact with an algae bloom and if contact is made, rinse your body with clean water. 

First Nations Health Authority continues to monitor the northeast side of the lake as well as Spaxomin (Douglas) and Chapperon lakes.

Name: Deborah (Deb) Loney (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Registered Nurse
Years of Service: 41 
Worksite:  Hillside Centre
Community: Kamloops
Ancestral Territory: Secwépemc 
Favourite Quote / Advice to live by: “Be kind – you never know what battles others are fighting.” – Deb Loney

Alison Houweling is the project lead for the harm reduction policy rollout. She’s been seeking the voice of physicians, nurse practitioners and peers, to talk about how harm reduction methods have impacted their work and interactions with patients.

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

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

From 6 p.m. tonight, Sunday, July 30, to 8 a.m. Monday, July 31, emergency services will be unavailable and patients can access care at Penticton Regional Hospital.

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

Interior Health is advising people who use N’Kwala (Nicola) Lake, Spaxomin (Douglas) Lake and/or Chapperon Lake that there is a risk of exposure to cyanobacterial toxin due to the presence of blue-green algae blooms on these lakes.

Water samples taken on July 26 from each lake tested positive for the cyanobacterial toxin. Cyanobacteria can produce several types of toxin that can be poisonous to people, pets and livestock.