Royal Inland Hospital
Royal Inland Hospital eyes next phase of development
KAMLOOPS - With construction still in the works on the clinical services building the hospital is already looking towards the next phase of development, a patient care tower. It will still be about one year before the nearly $80-million clinical services building opens at Royal Inland Hospital but planning will soon be underway for the...
Kamloops resident donates modern equipment to hospital
KAMLOOPS – Local businessman and philanthropist Ken Lepin has donated $300,000 and an important piece of medical equipment to Royal Inland Hospital. Lepin helped procure a piece of laser assisted technology used to help identify bacterial infections known as a MALDI/TOF Mass Spectrophotometer. Bacterias like meningitis, staphylococcus or even the flu continue to be deadly...
Another nurse allegedly attacked at Hillside Centre
KAMLOOPS - A nurse working at Royal Inland Hospital's Hillside Centre in Kamloops was allegedly attacked by a patient Sunday. The event comes within days of a similar event between a patient and doctor at a Penticton hospital. According to a media release from the B.C. Nurses' Union, an experienced nurse was grabbed by the...
Kamloops councillors back hospital laundry workers
KAMLOOPS - The health of the hospital is so much more than just doctors and nurses and potential job cuts to laundry services could deeply hurt the hospital. This is the message Donisa Bernardo, the Hospital Employees' Union's financial scretary, brought to Kamloops city council Tuesday, April 14. The organization is concerned about the amount...
No charges recommended against RCMP in parkade death
KAMLOOPS – A Kamloops RCMP officer has been found not criminally negligent after he tasered an 18-year-old man who jumped from the Royal Inland Hospital parkade last summer. On June 11, 2014, two police officers responded to a report of a youth who left the hospital and was in distress. Officers tried to convince Jacob...
Police identify suspect in shooting case
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP are on the lookout for a 26-year-old man believed to be involved in a shooting that put a second man in hospital Friday, March 6. Cpl. Cheryl Bush says investgators from the Serious Crime Unit have determined there was an "altercation" between two men at a North Shore residence Friday night, adding both...
$130k donation means better care for trauma patients at RIH
KAMLOOPS – A Kamloops resident is making sure Royal Inland Hospital has the equipment it needs to help doctors and nurses save lives in the emergency room. Guy Mercier made the $130,000 donation through the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation, which paid for the other $437,000 required to complete the project. At a conference Friday afternoon,...
Lack of staffing postpones 55 surgeries at RIH
KAMLOOPS - A total off 55 surgeries have been postponed at Royal Inland Hospital this month as the hospital deals with a shortage in anesthesiologists. Chief of Staff Norm Kienitz says this is actually a small number of surgeries and while it looks like the next couple of months will be okay, recruitment is something...
RCMP looking into report of threats against RIH
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP are investigating a report of threats involving Royal Inland Hospital, though Mounties haven't disclosed the nature of the alleged threats. Police first learned of the incident December 10, just before 11 a.m. according to a media release. They say threats were made through a third party who told police. As a...
Pedestrian hit while crossing the street downtown
KAMLOOPS - A female pedestrian was struck by a male driver while she was crossing 3 Avenue and Columbia in the crosswalk around 9 a.m. Wednesday morning. The 74-year-old male driver was turning left when the 43-year-old woman was struck according to an RCMP press release. The woman was taken to Royal Inland Hospital across...
Hospital budget approved, no tax increase for 2015
KAMLOOPS - The hospital board approved the 2015 budget for Royal Inland Hospital and while the budget is $16 million higher than in 2014 it will not impact tax bills next year. The Thompson Regional Hospital District board of directors approved the $34.4 million provisional budget, which is nearly double the 2014 budget. The 2015...
VIDEO: Kamloops mayor among dancers for a cause this weekend
KAMLOOPS – Small-business owners, a lawyer, a judge - even the mayor will dance for a crowd and judging panel this weekend. The event, inspired by popular TV show “Dancing with the Stars” will feature well-known community members from Kamloops. Royal Inland Hospital’s event “Dancing like the Stars” will take place at the Columbo Hall...
No charges laid after man was run over in parking lot
KAMLOOPS - A father accused of running over his son in the Royal Inland Hospital parking lot will not face a judge. “The file was concluded without any charges,” said Cpl. Cheryl Bush, a spokesperson for the RCMP. Last week, officers heard the father was bringing his son to the hospital when an argument broke out...
Son hit by a car after fight with father
KAMLOOPS – RCMP members are looking for answers after a Kamloops father ran over his son after the two had a disagreement at the Royal Inland Hospital. Police believe the father was trying to bring his son to the hospital when the two began fighting. When the father tried to leave, the son was struck...
Victim not speaking to police after being run over by his father
KAMLOOPS – It’s unclear why a father was driving his son to Royal Inland Hospital in the first place, but police are saying the altercation between the two suggests the son had changed his mind once they arrived. On Monday afternoon, the two had a verbal dispute in the emergency drop-off zone before the father...