South Okanagan Similkameen Primary Care Network Issues Paper
September 2019
The South Okanagan Similkameen (SOS) Primary Care Network (PCN) encompasses the entire SOS region. It serves approximately 90,000 residents in 8 communities.
The following paper contains an environmental scan of issues that have surfaced in our region. Input was given by physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Interior Health, Indigenous partners, local government, and patient voices.
Similar concerns were echoed by other Wave 1 communities.
New service blends traditional healing with modern medicine
“We are here now to shake hands with each other’s medicines and work together,” says Ahousaht elder Dave Frank, as a service is developing to