Interior Health provides health services to over 742,000 residents of the Southern Interior. Interior Health serves a large geographic area covering almost 216,000 square kilometres and includes larger cities as well as a multitude of more rural and remote communities.
Communities Served
58 municipalities & 95 unincorporated places
55 First Nations communities
7 regional hospital districts
Services
16 community hospitals
4 service area hospitals
2 tertiary referral hospitals
6,275 residential care and assisted living beds (as of October 2012)
Acute care, health promotion and prevention, community care, residential care, mental health and substance use, public health, and more.
People
Approximately 18,666 staff (as of October 2012)
1,516 physicians with privileges in IH’s acute facilities (as of October 2012)