{"id":495538,"date":"2026-02-24T04:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495538\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:34:08","slug":"outbreaks-hit-care-homes-in-vernon-kelowna-100-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495538\/","title":{"rendered":"Outbreaks hit care homes in Vernon, Kelowna, 100 Mile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Outbreaks hit care homes in Vernon, Kelowna, 100 Mile<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 6:30 pm Monday, February 23, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Outbreaks are being reported at several long-term care facilities in the Interior Health region.<\/p>\n<p>Gastrointestinal illness is affecting Armstrong\u2019s Pleasant Valley Manor (declared Feb. 23), Salmon Arm\u2019s Bastion Place (Feb. 23), Vernon\u2019s Creekside Landing (Feb. 20 in Osprey Court), Kelowna\u2019s Three Links Manor (Feb. 18 in the entire facility), and at Village at Mill Creek in Kelowna (declared Feb. 18 in the Okanagan Unit).<\/p>\n<p>There are also several respiratory infections (RI), with two stemming from human metapneumovirus in Kelowna at Glenmore Lodge (Feb. 23) and at Keremeos\u2019 Orchard Haven (Feb. 21).<\/p>\n<p>In 100 Mile House there are two RI outbreaks: one at the hopsital (Feb. 23) and one at Fisher Place (Feb. 20).<\/p>\n<p>There are several RI outbreaks in the Central Okanagan, including at Kelowna General Hospital (Feb. 23), Orchard Manor (Feb. 14), West Kelowna\u2019s Brookhaven Care Centre (Feb. 11) and Kelowna\u2019s Cottonwoods Care Centre (Feb. 3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outbreaks hit care homes in Vernon, Kelowna, 100 Mile Published 6:30 pm Monday, February 23, 2026 Outbreaks are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-495538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}