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January 14, 2021
By Susan Brown
Op-Ed Commentary
As we look back on 2020, we might be tempted to focus on the challenges. However, I want to take a moment to reflect on the strength and resilience demonstrated by individuals and communities as we overcame unimaginable odds together.
Our health care system, supported by outstanding teams of providers, patients and families, found new and innovative ways to provide and receive care. Our capital projects continued and new services opened to ensure more patients could access the health care services they need, closer to home.
The COVID-19 pandemic hit us hard early in the year and as new information about this novel virus came streaming in, health-care teams throughout Interior Health stepped up to rapidly adapt new processes and procedures.
As we look back on 2020, we might be tempted to focus on the challenges. However, I want to take a moment to reflect on the strength and resilience demonstrated by individuals and communities as we overcame unimaginable odds together.
By Susan Brown, President and CEO, Interior Health As we look back on 2020, we might be tempted to focus on the challenges. However, I want to take a moment to reflect on the strength and resilience demonstrated by individuals and communities as we overcame unimaginable odds together. Our health care system, supported by outstanding teams of providers, patients and families,
Image Credit: SUBMITTED / RIH Foundation December 10, 2020 - 11:18 AM The Royal Inland Hospital Foundation got a generous early Christmas gift from a family in Merritt. The Rizzardo Family donated $200,000 for medical equipment and technology for the new patient care tower under construction at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, according to a RIH Foundation media release. Healthcare has played an important role in the Rizzardo family s life. The eldest son works at Emcon Services Inc., which provides road, bridge and mechanical contract services in B.C., Alberta and Ontario. Two sons are physicians, and the fourth is a pharmacist. “We chose to donate to healthcare, to the local hospital in Merritt, the regional hospital in Kamloops, as well as to major centres in Vancouver, father Frank Rizzardo said in the release. These are all facilities that our family has benefitted from in the past and we would like to ensure that other families throughout the