Interior Health has rolled out its Integrated Health Outreach team - I-Hot; it's a van equipped with supplies and outreach/medical professionals to help the most vulnerable.
Interior Health unveiled the new wheels that will transport its Integrated Health Outreach team or I-Hot across the central Okanagan to provide health care to people experiencing homelessness or living in supportive or transitional housing.has rolled out its Integrated Health Outreach team, also known as I-Hot. The medical van equipped with supplies, outreach workers and medical professionals has arrived on the doorsteps of people in precarious situations.
“We’re trying to bring mobile responsive health care to the Central Okanagan, seven days a week, to really try and support individual health outcomes.”While it’s not a new concept in larger urban centres, it’s the first of its kind in the Okanagan. Before this, Interior Health had Outreach Urban Health in downtown Kelowna, where one or two nurses were available at any given time.
“Then we also have a schedule, so we’re hitting locations geographically throughout the Central Okanagan. Every day, we go to different areas to make sure individuals know we’re going to be there at that time.”“With the support of our donors in this community, we were in a position to contribute $260,000 to the purchase of the van,” Allison Young from the KGH Foundation said.
“Caring community is a pillar for us. Of course we support, with our donors, excellence in our hospital and that will always be important … but the more support we can provide for people in community – it actually has a tremendous positive benefit to our hospital”Plant-based milk recall: Class-action lawsuits filed over Listeria outbreakViewed
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