Oliver and area residents are advised of temporary changes to emergency department hours at South Okanagan General Hospital (SOGH) due to limited physician availability.
From 2-5 a.m. on Aug. 22, emergency services will be unavailable and patients can access care at Penticton Regional Hospital.
Communities across the Interior Health region are experiencing heavy impacts from wildfire smoke.
People with chronic conditions, such as asthma, heart disease, or diabetes, as well as pregnant women, infants, and young children, are most affected by wildfire smoke.
The best way to protect your health from wildfire smoke is to reduce your exposure to smoke and seek cleaner air.
During smoky conditions:
As a result of a wildfire threat and evacuation alert in area, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), Fraser Health and Interior Health (IH) have worked closely together to temporarily relocate residents of the Vineyards Residence assisted living and long-term care home in Kelowna to George Pearson Centre and Villa Cathay in Vancouver.
Chase, BC - Interior Health (IH) is responding to additional fire-related impacts to a seniors care facility in Chase.
Parkside Community is on evacuation alert due to the Lower East Adams Lake Wildfire and Interior Health has evacuated the site. Fifty-three individuals in assisted living care were moved to appropriate alternate facilities in Kamloops and the surrounding area during the evening of Aug. 18. Interior Health has been in the process of contacting families directly to update them on the location of their loved one.
Interior Health (IH) is responding to additional fire-related impacts to seniors care facilities in the Kelowna/West Kelowna area.
To ensure the safety of individuals in care as well as the staff and physicians supporting them, IH is working with partners and has recommended its care facility partners evacuate the following locations:
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Grand Forks and area residents are advised of temporary changes to emergency department hours at Boundary District Hospital (BDH) due to unexpected limited physician availability. This change is not related to current wildfire activity in the Interior.
When Dallas had her son eight years ago, she quickly realized she had more milk than she her son needed to thrive.
“I knew there were babies who could really benefit from my donated breast milk,” says Dallas, a public health nurse at Interior Health. “I have donated more than 20 litres of expressed breast milk to the milk bank. I got the idea from my own mom, who also donated when I was born prematurely at BC Women’s Hospital in 1985.
Interior Health is responding to fire-related impacts to health facilities and clients in West Kelowna.
Brookhaven Care Centre is not currently on evacuation order as a result of the McDougall Creek Wildfire, however, given its close proximity to the evacuation order area and out of an abundance of caution, Interior Health has evacuated the site. 95 individuals in care are being moved to appropriate alternate facilities in the Kelowna and Summerland areas. Interior Health is contacting families directly to update them on the location of their loved one.
Name: Tracy McKelvey (she/her/hers)
Job Title: MHSU Administrative Support Clerk
Years of Service: 15
Worksite: Outpatient Psychiatry, Penticton Mental Health
Community: Penticton
Ancestral Territory: Syilx Nation
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Sometimes, travellers can bring back more than souvenirs and memories from their tropical vacation. Numerous tropical diseases can be acquired when travelling such as Malaria, Salmonella infection and rashes. Now, there’s an opportunity for Interior residents who are infected with a tropical disease to be treated closer to home as a new clinic opens in the Okanagan.
