Interior Health Authority
Behind the scenes at Interior Health during the 2017 Okanagan meningitis outbreak
Internal memos and reports about last year’s meningitis outbreak in the Okanagan show just how…
Interior Health gets stiff fine, closes Princeton facility
PRINCETON – The Interior Health Authority has been fined more than $600,000 by WorkSafe B.C.…
Rash of assaults on staff prompt changes at Kelowna General Hospital
KELOWNA – A case of multiple assaults by a single patient on a number of…
Once unheard of, Kelowna has had two water quality advisories in a row
KELOWNA – The City of Kelowna is about to rescind the water quality advisory it…
Overdose death rate holding steady within Interior Health Authority
Deaths from suspected fatal illicit drug overdoses across the province were down 23 per cent…
A mother battles the system as her Kamloops son fights drug addiction, mental illness
KAMLOOPS – A mother of a Kamloops man says she is losing hope of ever…
Flu epidemic over but other viruses popping up in Interior Health
With influenza season dwindling to a close, you would think the Interior Health Authority would…
Overdose alert for Kamloops after six deaths in 10 days
KAMLOOPS – Six people have died from suspected overdoses in 10 days in Kamloops. Interior…
Chief medical health officer faces grim 2017 overdose numbers for Interior Health
After another year of ghastly overdose statistics for the Interior Health Authority in 2017, the…
Overdose action teams to hit the streets in Kelowna, Kamloops and Vernon
Three Interior cities are amongst the hardest hit in the province by the ongoing opioid…
Overdose warning stemmed from fatal overdoses across Interior: Chief medical health officer
THOMPSON OKANAGAN – After nine fatal overdoses in the Interior Health region, an overdose warning…
Two more overdose deaths as Interior Health repeats drug use warning
Two more overdose deaths have been added to seven reported on Friday by the Interior…
Funding extended for Interior Health supervised consumption sites
Interior Health's mobile supervised consumption sites are here to stay a little longer. Rae Samson,…
“No good news from the coroner,” Interior Health officials update regional directors on opioid crisis
PENTICTON – The severity of the region’s opioid crisis was brought home to regional directors…
Influenza hitting residential care facilities hard across Interior Health Authority
KELOWNA – Procedures for dealing with outbreaks of influenza in residential care homes within the…