
Series of ER closures in Lillooet expected to end by fall 2025: Interior Health
LILLOOET, B.C. — Interior Health expects the series of emergency room closures that have plagued the community of Lillooet this year, to begin to end by this fall.
Executive Director of Clinical Operations, Karen Cooper, said all the ER closures at the Lillooet Hospital and Health Centre this year have been due to a lack of physicians.
Speaking to CFJC Today, Cooper said one new physician that arrived in Lillooet in April is expected to begin working by July, with three others expected to arrive in September.
“With the addition of those four physicians, that does bring us to a full complement of physicians for Lillooet,” Cooper said. “We’re three months into where we’ve had a lessening of our physician pool, however we will be replenished before end of 2025.”