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News Items tag as: Interior Health crisis
Interior Health spending on agency nurses up 2,476% in two years
March 22, 2024 - 7:30 AM
Interior Health is contracting out an increasing number of nursing jobs as its spending climbed to more than $30 million last year.
Expectant moms may not be able to deliver at Vernon hospital due to OBGYN shortage
October 17, 2023 - 7:00 AM
Some expecting mothers in Vernon may have to be relocated to other hospitals to deliver due to service interruptions at Vernon Jubilee Hospital at the end of November.
Merritt considers withholding taxes due to hospital closures
October 12, 2023 - 7:00 AM
Over the past 11 months, the Nicola Valley Hospital has been closed 15 times as it faces ongoing staffing shortages. The mayor of Merritt is fed up.
Maternity clinic in Kamloops isn't closing
June 09, 2023 - 9:01 AM
A maternity clinic at Royal Inland Hospital will start taking new referrals after it was previously expected to close.
Ashcroft's primary care centre closed on Saturday
May 19, 2023 - 2:12 PM
The Urgent and Primary Care Centre in Ashcroft won’t be open tomorrow.
BC emergency departments on 'red alert': Doctors association
May 10, 2023 - 6:00 PM
BC doctors are sounding the alarm as patients in emergency departments across the province are being "warehoused" for 24 to 48 hours.
Petition demanding end to Merritt ER closures picking up steam
May 04, 2023 - 11:30 AM
Merritt area residents are fed up with repeated closures at their local emergency department.
Interior Health asks local governments to pause plans to ban open drug use in parks
April 20, 2023 - 10:50 AM
Interior Health has emailed all municipalities in the Southern Interior, asking the local governments to hold off on any bylaws to ban open drug use in parks.
Nursing program at Okanagan College coming to an end
April 04, 2023 - 2:56 PM
Health-care training is expanding in Kelowna but it means nursing students will have to shift from Okanagan College to UBC Okanagan in order to complete their training.
Interior Health has closed Oliver's ER for 20 hours this week
March 30, 2023 - 8:11 AM
The emergency department at the hospital in Oliver was closed again overnight, the second such closure this past week.
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A look back at the glory days of celery production in the Okanagan
Celery isn’t grown commercially locally these days, but once upon a time there were acres of it growing in the Okanagan. Kelowna resident Domenic Rampone’s family immigrated from northern Italy to Kelowna in 1893 where they grew
North Thompson woman refused home insurance over cannabis plants loses human rights case
A North Thompson woman has lost a legal battle against more than a dozen insurance companies after she was refused coverage because she grew medical cannabis on her property. According to a May 2 BC Human Rights Tribunal decision, form
New Kamloops supportive housing site comes with $30M price tag
A new North Kamloops supportive housing project is slated for move-in by 2028. BC Housing is looking for contractors to build the 54-unit building and attached a $30.5 million price tag. That's according to procurement documents,
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