Posted: May 18, 2021 Improved access to community care with new 1-800 number Interior Health is making it easier for seniors and others in the East Kootenay region to access and navigate home and community care and chronic disease management services. Residents throughout the East Kootenay can now easily connect to health-care services in their community Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (MST) by calling 1-800-707-8550. Communities in the East Kootenay are the latest to see implementation of the new 1-800 number. The central number was launched as a pilot project in South Okanagan in September 2020, and later expanded to the Kootenay Boundary, Central Okanagan and the Cariboo Chilcotin.