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<\/p>\nKelly first came to Kamloops as part of the city\u2019s first family medicine residency cohort.<\/p>\n
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What she found was a community and a hospital culture she didn\u2019t want to leave.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was such a welcoming community. The medical staff were so welcoming \u2013 the hospital, the collegiality, the way that people treat each other in general was just really inspiring,\u201d added Kelly.<\/p>\n
Since April 2025, nine new hospitalists have accepted positions at the RIH. Kelly says the mentality of the approach hasn\u2019t been about convincing doctors to move here, but instead showing them what life in Kamloops is really like.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I would get away from saying \u2018convincing\u2019 people to come here. I think that was the mental shift we all made. Kamloops is an amazing place to be. Let\u2019s showcase what is amazing about our hospital, what\u2019s amazing about our community, why we love to live here and that will attract the right people,\u201d Kelly stated.<\/p>\n
Those new additions are already helping improve stability within the hospitalist program, while reducing the existing pressures on physicians. Kelly believes the group has now reached an important milestone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are at a place now where things are more stable, which is amazing. Now we can be pickier, too, about continuing to find our people. That\u2019s really important to us, finding the right people to join our group.\u201d<\/p>\n
While recruitment remains a challenge across the province, Kelly says she\u2019s optimistic about the future of health care in Kamloops.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn abundance of doctors and all other health care professionals and nurses,\u201d says Kelly when asked on how she hopes the healthcare system will develop in years to come. \u201cI mean, we still have a ways to go with recruitments, so I would like to see us fully staffed, and I see that in our future.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Kelly, the goal isn\u2019t just bringing more doctors to Kamloops \u2013 it\u2019s building a stronger healthcare system for the community she fell in love with ten years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelly first came to Kamloops as part of the city\u2019s first family medicine residency cohort. What she found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-746444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746444","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=746444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}