More Lies From Interior Health

I’ve been watching the game of chess being played between the residents of Princeton (and area) and Interior Health for the past several weeks.

It’s been an interesting match.

It was announced at a recent Town Council meeting that work is continuing on the recruitment of new doctors to Princeton by IHA. That may be true, but when you visit the IHA ‘recruitment’ website it doesn’t take long to see how out of touch with Princeton Interior Health really is.

On the community profile page on Princeton there’s two glaring errors I picked up on right away. Under the heading of ‘economy’ it states “Forestry, agriculture, tourism, cattle ranching” but there is no mention of mining. By my last count there were no less than three mining companies setting up shop in the area.

  

However, probably the biggest blunder made by IHA in their attempt at marketing Princeton to doctors is related to education. On the community profile it says we have two elementary, one intermediate and one secondary school. In case you’ve forgotten, the intermediate school is now Riverside Centre – a local cultural and social community centre. And there’s no mention of the Skills Centre or The Bridge for additional educational opportunities.

So when Interior Health says they are working hard to resolve local issues it’s pretty clear to me they have little knowledge of our community. When you have little knowledge of a product, you can’t effectively promote it.

So what is IHA really doing for Princeton?