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B.C. nurse suspended for giving senior cannabis edible
A B.C. nurse that gave a senior edible cannabis and asked a coworker to create…
Interior Health doesn’t have enough nurses to run the emergency department in Merritt tonight
Once again, Interior Health has to close Nicola Valley Hospital’s 24-hour emergency department for the…
Emergency room at Merritt’s hospital closed: Interior Health
The emergency department at Merritt's hospital will be closed for almost 24 hours because of…
B.C. nurse caught sleeping on the job gets suspended
A Richmond nurse has been suspended for two months for sleeping on the job. According…
Kelowna ER nurse left Indigenous person ‘pulseless and unresponsive’
A Kelowna emergency room nurse who left a "pulseless and unresponsive" Indigenous person in the…
B.C. nurse who failed to assess patient, then lied, gets suspended
A B.C. nurse who failed to assess a patient properly and then falsified the medical…
Suspect charged in assault on health-care worker at Kamloops ER
A man is facing three criminal charges after a health-care worker was assaulted in Royal Inland…
Emergency room at Merritt’s hospital closing temporarily
Medical emergencies in Merritt and area are being directed to Kamloops again as the local…
Merritt ER closed for 24 hours on short notice
Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt doesn't have enough physicians to run its emergency department for…
Merritt’s emergency department closed until tomorrow morning
Emergency health services are unavailable in Merritt today, yet again. The latest closure of the…
Kamloops physiotherapist investigated for derogatory comments
A Kamloops physiotherapist added insult to injury when he called his patient a "redneck hick…
MLAs want answers on delayed plan for Kamloops cancer centre
Kamloops Liberal MLAs Todd Stone and Peter Milobar want more transparency from the provincial government on…
Interior Health butting out tobacco sales to minors; 7 stores fined this month
Interior Health is catching businesses red-handed selling tobacco products to people under 19. Seven fines…
Parents frustrated as Vernon daycare announces closure
Parents at a Vernon daycare are now scrambling to find childcare after the sudden announcement…
B.C. nurse suspended for two months for breaching regulator’s conditions
A B.C. nurse, who was previously facing criminal charges, has been suspended for two months…