Health

COVID – City employees can choose rapid testing over full vaccination

November 1, 2021 // 1 Comment

City of Kamloops employees who choose not to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 15 may choose regular rapid testing for COVID-19 instead. The City made the announcement today (Nov. [Continue]

COVID – Seniors 75 and up may register for their vaccinations this week

March 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

People in their mid- and late 70s can book their COVID-19 vaccinations with Interior Health this week. A new schedule released today (March 22, 2021) allows seniors born [Continue]

COMMUNITY – Volunteers create new outdoor skating oval at Inks Lake

February 1, 2021 // 2 Comments

There’s a brand new skating oval on Inks Lake thanks to a collaboration between the Kamloops Outdoor Skating Association and Kamloops Long Blades along with other [Continue]

COVID-19 – Virus case identified at Save-On Foods pharmacy in Columbia Place

March 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

A case of COVID-19 has been identified at the Save-On Foods pharmacy in the Columbia Place Shopping Centre in Sahali, Interior Health announced today (March 26, 2020). In [Continue]

COVID-19 – Local Caremongering volunteering initiative launched

March 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Submitted by Caremongering-Kamloops: As the threat of COVID-19 loomed, and inspired by a national movement to help, the Facebook group Caremongering – Kamloops was [Continue]

COVID-19 – Essential visit restrictions in effect at all IH sites

March 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

COVID-19 update today (March 23, 2020) from Interior Health: Effective immediately and until further notice, Interior Health is limiting the number of visitors entering all [Continue]

CORONAVIRUS – Fear of a pandemic, or a pandemic of fear?

February 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

By ARNE RUCKERT L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa HELENE CARABIN Université de Montréal, and RONALD LABONTE L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa [Continue]

COMMUNITY – Mustard Seed reopens live-in support program

January 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Mustard Seed Kamloops has reopened a live-in support program, a 17-bed Men’s Sober Living Centre at the Outreach Centre at 181 West Victoria Street. The Centre will [Continue]

HEALTH – We must do more for seniors coming home from hospital

December 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

By RUTA VALAITIS and MAUREEN MARKLE-REID McMaster University DESPITE HAVING DIABETES and arthritis, Verne was a thriving independent 72-year-old who lived at home with his [Continue]

HEALTH – Gastrointestinal outbreak at RIH, Hillside limits access to 3 wards

January 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

Statement released by Interior Health: Gastrointestinal illness outbreak at Royal Inland Hospital KAMLOOPS – Royal Inland Hospital is currently experiencing a [Continue]

HEALTH CARE – How do we end emergency room madness?

March 4, 2018 // 3 Comments

The simple solution to overcrowding in our hospitals is to allow Canadians to purchase health insurance that covers medically necessary care By LEE HARDING Research Associate [Continue]

FOOD – Grocery stores bulk up on ultra-processed foods that don’t nourish us

February 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

Far too many products in Canada’s stores give us lots of calories but little nutrition. And we have dangerously abandoned cooking and meal-time routines By JEAN-CLAUDE [Continue]

AGING – Why you should talk to your family now about end-of-life wishes

January 27, 2018 // 1 Comment

By SHARON KAASALAINEN and TAMARA SUSSMAN EvidenceNetwork.ca MANY PEOPLE have been faced with having to make critical decisions for family and friends who were at the end of [Continue]

HELPING – A nurse practitioner turns a passion for humanity into a career

January 22, 2018 // 1 Comment

By MICHELE YOUNG Thompson Rivers University She travels thousands of miles to help people in some of the poorest places on the planet. Nurse practitioner Patrice Gordon has [Continue]