Health care in the region is planned, coordinated, and governed by the Interior Health Authority and the Northern Health Authority. All Cariboo Chilcotin residents pay for the costs of building local hospitals and purchasing equipment through two taxes on their property tax notice: the active Cariboo Chilcotin Regional Hospital District and the previous Cariboo Regional Hospital District. The Board of Directors has committed to keeping the tax rate for the two Regional Hospital Districts at a sum of $75 per $100,000 of residential assessment.

In 1996, the Ministry of Health changed the boundaries of the Regional Hospital District and created a new Cariboo Chilcotin Regional Hospital District (CCRHD). Currently active, the CCRHD cost shares with the Ministry of Health for acute care and extended care capital purchases. The Health Authorities fund 60% while the Cariboo Chilcotin Regional Hospital District funds 40%.

The Cariboo Regional Hospital District is the previous regional hospital district. Although inactive, the old CRHD must remain in existence until all the debt acquired for capital projects is retired, which is scheduled for 2014.

Main Health Facilities in the Region 

South Cariboo Health Centre

100 Mile & District Hospital
Emergency & Main Entrance

The South Cariboo Health Centre was constructed in 1999 and 2000 to provide obstetrics, inpatient and diagnostic service, and emergency service. It is overseen by the Interior Health Authority. The facility connects the 100 Mile District General Hospital with the Fisher Place extended care residence, a new multi-level residential care facility that provides single rooms with 24-hour nursing care.

 

Cariboo Memorial Hospital

Residents of the Central Cariboo can receive health care at the Cariboo Memorial Hospital in Williams Lake, which operates under the Interior Health Authority. The facility includes 69 beds with 24 acute care beds and 45 extended care beds. Medical, surgical, obstetrical & gynecological and pediatric services are provided. Many of the surgical procedures are now provided safely on an outpatient basis through Daycare Surgery. The hospital offers 24-hour emergency room coverage.

G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital and Baker Lodge 

The Northern Health Authority operates the G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital and Baker Lodge in Quesnel. The Hospital has 31 acute care beds - 4 Intensive Care Unit beds, 5 Crisis Stabilization beds and a 40-bed extended care facility. Services on site include an internist/cardiologist, an urologist, an Ear, Nose and Throat surgeon and 2 general surgeons. A radiologist visits weekly and pathologists are available in Prince George. The hospital has a wide variety of specialized equipment, such as a stress electrocardiogram, an echocardiogram, a gastroscope, a sigmoidoscope, a colonoscope, a bronchoscope and mammography and spirometry machines. The nearest referral hospital is Prince George Regional Hospital.

To look over the highlights of 2003 for the Cariboo Chilcotin Regional Hospital District, click here.

The Cariboo Regional District is governed by a board of Electoral Area Directors, who are elected by rural voters to serve three-year terms, and Municipal Directors, who are appointed by their municipal councils for up to one full term. The Board selects its own Chair and appoints members to sit on committees that deal with various regional concerns. There are 12 electoral area Directors and four Municipal Directors. The Board responds to locally-expressed needs for services and consults with residents about which services it can provide, where they are to be provided, and how they are to be financed.

How to Contact Our Directors

The table below includes the names of the Directors, the electoral areas they represent, and their individual e-mail addresses. If you have any comments, concerns or questions you would like to express to a particular director, just click on their e-mail address.

Director of Area A: Ted Armstrong

Red Bluff - Quesnel South tarmstrong@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Area B: Roberta Faust

Quesnel West - Bouchie Lake rfaust@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Area C: John Massier 

Bowron Lake - Barlow Creek - Barkerville jmassier@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Area D: Deb Bischoff

Commodore Heights - McLeese Lake dbischoff@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Area E: Steve Mazur 

South Lakeside - Dog Creek smazur@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Area F: Duncan Barnett

Horsefly - Likely - 150 Mile House dubarnett@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Area G: Al Richmond 

Lac La Hache - 108 Mile Ranch arichmond@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Area H: Art Dumaresq

Canim Lake - Forest Grove adumaresq@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Area I: Jim Glassford

Narcosli - Nazko - West Fraser jglassford@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Area J: Alex Bracewell

West Chilcotin abracewell@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Area K: Rick Mumford

East Chilcotin rmumford@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Area L: Bruce Rattray 

Lone Butte - Interlakes brattray@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Williams Lake: Kerry Cook

kcook@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Quesnel: Mary Sjostrom

msjostrom@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of 100 Mile House: Mitch Campsall

mcampsall@cariboord.bc.ca

Director of Wells: Jay Vermette

jvermette@cariboord.bc.ca