By Aaron Schulze

Interior Health

Interior Health’s central number expands to Thompson and South Cariboo

Nov 12, 2021 | 3:47 PM

KAMLOOPS — Interior Health established a new 1-800 number for Thompson and South Cariboo communities to access and navigate home and community care and chronic disease management services.

By calling 1-800-707-8550, residents in the following communities can connect to healthcare services seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.:

• Ashcroft
• Barriere
• Blue River
• Cache Creek
• Chase
• Clearwater
• Clinton
• Kamloops
• Lillooet
• Little Fort
• Logan Lake
• Lytton
• McLure
• Merritt
• Sun Peaks
• Vavenby

Residents calling the 1-800 number can reach a central intake office and will be connected to the appropriate care management, palliative care, acquired brain injury services.

Interior Health says the central number was launched as a pilot project in South Okanagan in September 2020, and has since expanded to the Kootenay Boundary, East Kootenay, Central Okanagan, and the Cariboo Chilcotin. It does not replace existing contact numbers, including the Interior Health crisis line at 1-888-353-2273, hospital, emergency services, or 911.

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Interior Health says the central phone service will be expanded to additional regions later this year.