Public Health System
Residents of Vernon and the North Okanagan are in the Okanagan Health Service Delivery Area. Interior Health Authority delivers services including hospitals and health centres, health promotion and prevention, home care, residential care, mental health and other related health services.
Vernon Local Health Area
The Vernon Local Health Area (LHA) serves approximately 73,600 residents with 130 general practitioners or approximately 1.7 practitioners per 1,000 people in 2021. Approximately 82% of those in Interior Health had a regular medical doctor. In addition, there are over 30 dentists providing a range of dental services.
City of Vernon Health Facilities
Vernon Jubilee Hospital, a 186-bed regional hospital, has 1,700 employees and provides acute and emergency care, ambulatory care, medicine and surgery, psychiatry, maternity, and pediatrics. The hospital recently saw the opening of the $180-million Polson Tower expansion and is slated to become a satellite teaching hospital for the new school of medicine offered by the University of British Columbia Okanagan. The City of Vernon has two residential care facilities: Gateby Care Facility and Noric House. Gateby Care Facility is a 75-bed facility providing 24-hour nursing for patients requiring complex care along with a rehabilitation/social/respite day program. Noric House is an 85-bed facility providing 24-hour nursing for patients requiring complex care.
The Vernon Urgent and Primary Care Centre (UPCC) located in the City provides team-based care for non-emergency health concerns to individuals in Vernon who require same-day attention such as minor injuries, infections, less serious child illness and injury, and cuts, wounds or skin conditions, by appointment only. Depending on individual care needs, patients may see either a family physician, nurse practitioner, registered nurse, social worker, physiotherapist, or mental health and substance use clinicians.
A sample of other health and wellness companies in the Vernon area include: