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IH prepares for wildfire season long before the smoke arrives

For IH, wildfire preparedness is shaped by years of experience, regular training, exercises, inventories and relationships with partners across the region.

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Closing the circle: Indigenous communities shaping future of CMH

IH’s CMH redevelopment team travelled around Cariboo to reconnect with Indigenous communities and share how their input is shaping the hospital's new building.

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What Worked for Me: Chris’s focus on daily skills helps recovery

Chris Turner turned to addiction as a teenager, but through his recovery has become a mentor to give hope to others battling addiction.

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How to walk, bike or roll to school safely

Find tips for walking, biking or rolling to school safely. Learn how to make it safer to travel to school in your community.

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We are IH: Retired nurse still makes difference in long-term care

For Kelli Hartman, nursing was never just a career choice. It was a calling. What she didn't expect was where that calling would take her.

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Community & Culture
What Worked for Me: Sara’s journey from surviving to living
What worked for Saras addition recovery was the connections and relationships she formed at IH that changed her life.
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Health & Wellness
Knowing the signs of an opioid overdose could save a life
With B.C.’s ongoing toxic drug crisis., it’s more important than ever to know how to recognize the signs of an overdose and what to do if someone needs help.
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Health & Wellness
Protect yourself from mosquito-borne diseases in B.C. and Canada
Mosquitoes in Canada can carry viruses that may cause serious illness in humans. Here are steps you can take to protect yourself and your family.
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IH works with partners to continue dialogue on toxic drug crisis
Learn how IH and partners are remembering, healing and finding hope together.
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A cooler kind of care: An extreme heat story from Nelson
Learn how Nelson and Interior Health partnered to educate people on the dangers of extreme heat.
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Community & Culture
What Worked for Me: Nadine’s journey of counselling, culture and healing
Learn about Nadine's path to sobriety, shaped by intergenerational trauma, poverty, loss, addiction and, ultimately, by love.

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Collage of three images: On the left, a health-care worker checks on a patient in a long-term care home setting. In the centre, a hospital worker in a green top with a face mask around their chin stands in a hospital room. On the right, a smiling individual with shoulder-length hair poses for a selfie in a room.
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We Are IH: Celebrating our health care assistants
Health care assistants make a big difference in our lives. Meet three IH HCAs who provide personal care services to vulnerable patients, clients & residents.
Two people: a woman with short brown hair (left), wearing a grey tank top and blue shorts, stands next to a man with brown hair, wearing a white t-shirt that says Revelstoke and green shorts behind them are lots of green trees.
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We Are IH: Celebrating a nurse's remarkable career and retirement
Deb is an introspective leader who values empowering others to express themselves. After a 33-year career at IH, she’s looking forward to her retirement.
four female health care workers stand beside a medical machine and smile
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Conversation leads to unexpected job shadowing opportunity at IH
For those contemplating a shift into health care, both Emily and Christa offer heartfelt advice.
Woman with long, curled blonder hair wearing a black blazer with a light blue blouse underneath is sitting in front of ultrasound equipment and smiling at the camera.
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We Are IH: Sonographer finds career humbling but never boring
Brooke loves her job as an ultrasound technician not only because of what she gets to do, but because of the team she works with at Royal Inland Hospital.

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