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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…
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…
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 caught sleeping on the job gets suspended
A Richmond nurse has been suspended for two months for sleeping on the job. According…
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…
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…
Babies at Kamloops hospital to benefit from local businessman’s $1M donation
Royal Inland Hospital's newborn care unit is getting a $1 million boost from a local…
Westbank nurse suspended for snooping on medical records
A Kelowna-area nurse has been suspended for snooping on medical records. According to a Jan.…
Flooding at Kamloops hospital squeezes appointments
A burst water line is delaying X-ray and CT scan appointments at Royal Inland Hospital.…
Another South Okanagan emergency room will be closed Christmas Eve
The emergency department in Oliver will be closed throughout the night on Christmas Eve and…
Interior Health doesn’t have enough nurses to operate the healthcare clinic in Ashcroft today
Ashcroft residents will have to go to the hospital in Kamloops if they need healthcare…
Anti-vax ‘wellness’ clinics in Kamloops, Vernon shuttered
A pair of clinics in Kamloops and Vernon that were opened to serve unvaccinated people…
B.C. health-care workers are facing an epidemic of violence
Ten years after she was assaulted at work, Pam Owen still remembers her attacker’s empty…
A hidden consequence of not having a family doctor in Kamloops
A Kamloops man has found himself deprived of much-needed prescription medication because he doesn't have…
Kelowna city councillor consulted for business behind anti-vax billboards
A Kelowna city councillor was listed as a "consultant" for the business behind new anti-vax…