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Technology solution helps seniors remain at home

Technology solution helps seniors remain at home

Care Link Advantage solution includes sensors, door contacts, cameras and emergency communication device. An independent living solution developed by Sudbury-based Care Link Advantage has been embraced by New Brunswick’s Department… Read more »

Flotation therapy comes to Sudbury

Flotation therapy comes to Sudbury

Weightlessness said to relieve pain, stress Brent Giroux knows about head injuries and the effects of chronic pain. In 1987, Giroux was riding his motorcycle when he was hit by… Read more »

Mindfulness course offers stress relief at HSN

Mindfulness course offers stress relief at HSN

Course blends eastern and native teachings In a noisy, busy and cold hospital it is a welcome relief to find peace and quiet. Gary Petingola, a social worker at Health… Read more »

Public-private partnership funds new health services centre

Public-private partnership funds new health services centre

New building will house Thunder Bay’s cyclotron Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre is using a creative public-private ownership model to build a 75,000-square foot Health Services Centre on the… Read more »

Cochrane hospitals, agencies plan for integration

Cochrane hospitals, agencies plan for integration

LHIN sets March 31 deadline Administrators and hospital board mem­bers in the Cochrane District have been given their marching orders: either come up with an integration plan themselves, or have… Read more »

Nurse practitioners fill palliative care gap

Nurse practitioners fill palliative care gap

Support for end-of-life patients who choose to die at home The North East and North West Community Care Access Centres (CCACs) are filling a gap in community-based palliative care by… Read more »

Program targets youth with mental health, addiction issues

Program targets youth with mental health, addiction issues

16 nurses for northeast, 11 for the northwest The North East and North West Community Care Access Centres (CCAC) have received funding to hire 27 nurses to staff a mental… Read more »

Rare procedure leads to remarkable recovery of patient

Rare procedure leads to remarkable recovery of patient

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation used to treat case of blastomycosis A rare procedure and multi-team ef­fort at Health Sciences North (HSN) in Sudbury has saved the life of a patient suffering… Read more »

Timmins, Temiskaming pilot Health Links

Timmins, Temiskaming pilot Health Links

The Timmins Family Health Team and Le Centre de santé communautaire de Temiskaming in the North East LHIN have been selected as pilot sites for the Ministry of Health and… Read more »

Primary care lead to focus on access to care

Primary care lead to focus on access to care

Sault Ste. Marie’s Dr. Al McLean appointed primary care lead, for northeast How is health care in Ontario like “the hokey pokey?” Ask Dr. Al McLean, a family physician in… Read more »

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