Interior Health

Interior Health vice-president of medicine Dr. Mark Masterson says the doctors make up the whole department, but he assured the public there will be no change to obstetric or gynecology services at the hospital.

Josie Osborne says more than 2,250 doctors, nurses and other health professionals have signed up for webinars and expressed interest in working in B.C. since March.

The authority says the end of president and CEO Susan Brown’s tenure is among ‘key actions’ taken by the board of directors and other leaders to reopen the pediatric department as soon as possible.

British Columbia’s Fraser Health authority says measles infections have been confirmed in three Chilliwack residents since Friday and the cases appear to have been acquired locally.

Emergency rooms tend to be crowded during the summer months even without ‘limited physician availability.’

Court documents say the ‘full extent’ of the hack still hasn’t been disclosed by Interior Health in the 16 years since.

Darold Sturgeon was fired as executive director of medical affairs for Interior Health in November 2021 after refusing to get the vaccine based on his Christian beliefs.

A notice posted online by WorkSafeBC, the province’s worker protection agency, says the $274,073 fine imposed in August was the result of an incident in which two workers were sickened after a noxious odour was detected in a patient’s room.