Cardiac Care to improve in the Interior (British Columbia)

"With a mandate to provide equal health care to all British Columbians, the Provincial Health Authority recently help their annual board meeting in Rossland. The group heard from a hand full of Interior Health Doctors, including Dr Richard Hooper, Interior Healths cardiac clinical program director. He stressed the importance of bringing better cardiac care to the interior. The province is injecting $27 million to enhance cardiac care at the Kelowna hospital. The upgrades will hopefully allow Interior doctors to preform angioplasties and open heart surgeries by 2012. Interior Health is looking to train rural nurse practitioners and family doctors to become specialists in heart disease" - KBS News