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LETTER – Patient safety is key in radio communication at new RIH addition

January 3, 2023 // 0 Comments

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]

GUEST COLUMN – Is it time to ask for Canadian Forces medics?

August 27, 2022 // 4 Comments

By LYNNE STONIER-NEWMAN Guest Columnist OUR RURAL COMMUNITIES’ established medical services are collapsing. Emergency wards in their hospitals are repeatedly being [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Kamloops has to up its lobbying game on the cancer clinic

August 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

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]

HEALTHCARE – Regional hospital directors pepper IH rep with concerns

June 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

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]

GUEST COLUMN – Why was the RIH emergency ward out of pillows?

June 10, 2022 // 11 Comments

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]

EDITORIAL – Time to give control of Royal Inland back to the community

May 30, 2022 // 5 Comments

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]

GUEST COLUMN – Hospital is on fire as staffing shortage in full crisis

May 27, 2022 // 3 Comments

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]

COLLINS – New hospital tower won’t be the ‘saviour’ for health care

May 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

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]

PETERS – The staffing situation at RIH is grim, but the goose is far from cooked

May 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

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]

LETTER – Level of care at Royal Inland Hospital is unacceptable

March 20, 2022 // 8 Comments

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]

LETTER – Parking for Royal Inland Hospital staff still hasn’t been resolved

March 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

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]

EDITORIAL – Here we go again – paid parking at hospitals makes a return

January 24, 2022 // 2 Comments

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]

PETERS – To the staff at Royal Inland Hospital: Thank you

December 18, 2021 // 1 Comment

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]

STONE – After a tough year in 2021, let’s approach 2022 with optimism

December 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson and PETER MILOBAR MLA. Kamloops-North Thompson AS THE BC LIBERAL MLAs for Kamloops and the Thompson Valleys, we thank you for [Continue]