{"id":506720,"date":"2026-03-01T05:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506720\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T05:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:14:06","slug":"interior-health-declares-outbreak-at-salmon-arm-long-term-care-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506720\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Health declares outbreak at Salmon Arm long-term care facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another outbreak declared
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On Feb. 26, a respiratory infection outbreak was declared for the entirety of the long-term care facility Hillside Village in Salmon Arm.<\/p>\n

Another outbreak has been declared by Interior Health at a Shuswap care facility.<\/p>\n

On Feb. 26, a respiratory infection outbreak was declared for the entirety of the long-term care facility Hillside Village in Salmon Arm.<\/p>\n

That brings the total to 12 facilities under influenza or respiratory outbreaks.<\/p>\n

On Feb. 25, IH declared a respiratory infection for the entirety of the Dr. Andrew Pavillion long-term care facility in Summerland.<\/p>\n

Feb. 23 saw outbreaks declared at four facilities: a respiratory infection on 4B of Kelowna General Hospital; norovirus gastrointestinal illness in the Rosedale Building of Pleasant Valley Manor in Armstrong; a respiratory infection in Building 1 of the Glenmore Lodge in Kelowna and a norovirus gastrointestinal illness on the second floor of Bastion Place in Salmon Arm.<\/p>\n

On Feb 21, a respiratory infection outbreak was declared for the General Population Unit of Orchard Haven in Keremeos.<\/p>\n

On Feb. 20, a respiratory infection outbreak was declared for the entirety of the Fischer Place\/Mill Site Lodge in 100 Mile House a norovirus gastrointestinal illness outbreak was declared for the entirety of Creekside Landing in Vernon.<\/p>\n

Two outbreaks were declared Feb. 18 in Kelowna: a norovirus gastrointestinal illness in the Okanagan and Oyama units of Village at Mill Creek and norovirus hit the entirety of Three Links Manor.<\/p>\n

The longest-standing outbreak declared Feb. 3 is at Cottonwoods Care Centre in Kelowna where a respiratory illness has impacted the Unit A- Short Stay Unit of Cottonwoods Care Centre.<\/p>\n

The outbreaks list is updated when new outbreaks are declared in a facility.<\/p>\n

Outbreaks are listed for the following types of infections and illnesses: clostridium difficile Infection, gastrointestinal illness and respiratory infections.<\/p>\n

The list includes all hospitals and long-term care facilities within IH that either fall under the Hospital Act or are licensed under the Community Care and Assisted Living Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another outbreak declared Photo: File photo On Feb. 26, a respiratory infection outbreak was declared for the entirety…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-506720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506720","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=506720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}