WE’VE BECOME NUMB TO ALL THE BAD NEWS around medical care provided and not provided in Kamloops. We shouldn’t be numb to the news from this week, though. The Thompson [Continue]
Should the new addition at Royal Inland Hospital be designated a “radio free zone”? Just this past year, a report in a couple of media outlets stated that Kamloops Fire [Continue]
By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN Guest Columnist OUR RURAL COMMUNITIES’ established medical services are collapsing. Emergency wards in their hospitals are repeatedly being [Continue]
A FULL-SERVICE CANCER CLINIC is in the works for Kamloops somewhere within the books of the provincial NDP government but it might be a long way off. Premier John Horgan [Continue]
Interior Health got an earful this week from the Thompson Regional Hospital District board of directors about the state of healthcare in the region. The hospital district [Continue]
By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN Guest Columnist HELLO, Lynne Stonier-Newman here, a social marketing and communication consultant, and a B.C. historian and author. During the past [Continue]
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ALMOST AS FRUSTRATING as the staffing crisis at Royal Inland Hospital is the way in which the issue has been politicized. Everybody from [Continue]
The guest column is written by an anonymous nurse. THIS IS IN RESPONSE to the campaign of misinformation propagated by the administration of the Interior Health Authority. [Continue]
IN TWO MONTHS, give or take, the new $417 million patient care tower at Royal Inland Hospital will open its doors. It will have some nice new bells and whistles. The tower is [Continue]
THE STORY OF THE MOTHER GOOSE laying her eggs outside the Royal Inland Hospital maternity ward must have been a welcome respite from all the doom and gloom for staff at the [Continue]
To the patients of the Thompson-Cariboo-Shuswap, The Department of Surgery at RIH has been advocating, on your behalf, for many years to improve local access to surgical [Continue]
I saw your clip regarding the reinstatement of paid parking at RIH and that it forces “visitors and patients to pay for parking at hospitals creates another toll on [Continue]
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. GET READY TO START struggling with pay parking machines at Royal Inland Hospital again. Free parking at all B.C. hospitals will end on March [Continue]
LIFE CAN CHANGE IN AN INSTANT. That instant comes for all of us — it just doesn’t have the common courtesy to warn us ahead of time. For me, that instant came on a [Continue]