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Online engagement tool draws
impressive response
The North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) isn’t short of ideas for improving the health-care system....
Date Published | April, 2009- More.... |
Mattawa’s 41-year wait for hospital comes to an end
A 41-year wait for a new hospital in the Town of Mattawa has finally come to an end...
Date Published | April, 2009- More.... |
Aging at Home
Aging at Home programs funded by the North West LHIN are helping to keep seniors from across northwestern Ontario out of long-term care homes...
Date Published | April, 2009- More.... |
Docs to get bonus for taking orphan patients
The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has announced plans to help orphan patients find a primary care provider...
Date Published | April, 2009- More.... |
Videoconferencing revolutionizes care for developmentally disabled adults
Eight organizations serving the developmentally disabled in Northern Ontario are no longer limited to the specialized resources within their own communities...
Date Published | April, 2009- More.... |
Sault ER docs open walk-in clinic
A group of emergency physicians at Sault Area Hospital has announced plans to open an independent walk-in clinic and family practice in the city...
Date Published | April, 2009- More.... |
Ontario invests $741 million in diabetes strategy
Ontario’s recently unveiled $741 million diabetes strategy is good news for diabetics in Northern Ontario...
Date Published | April, 2009- More.... |
New hospitals in North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie set the stage for improved health care
The future of health care is closer than we think. Two new hospitals taking shape in North Bay and Sault Ste. Marie will be among...
Date Published | April, 2009- More.... |
HIV/AIDS patients in North living longer
The human immune-deficiency virus (HIV), once considered a deadly disease, is being tamed at Sudbury Regional Hospital’s Haven Clinic...
Date Published | April, 2009- More.... |
Thunder Bay expands angioplasty services
A second angioplasty suite has been approved for Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre...
Date Published | April, 2009- More.... |
Northeast Mental Health Centre’s transition team eases path for seniors
One of the deepest needs of a human being is the need to belong.
This philosophy was the driving force behind the formation of an interdisciplinary team that provides...
Date Published | April, 2009- More.... |
Province to work on new mental health and addiction strategy for 2010
An all-party committee has been formed by the Ontario legislature to help develop ways to improve access to mental health and addiction
services in the province...
Date Published | April, 2009- More.... |
Three new medical and research professionals join cancer care team
Thunder Bay’s cancer care team is growing.
Dr. Kevin Ramchandar, originally from Kenora, will join the Regional Cancer Care team...
Date Published | April, 2009- More.... |
Northeast LHIN issues call
for integration proposals
The Northeast LHIN is poised to begin evaluating integration initiatives proposed by hospitals and health-care organizations ...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008- More.... |
Sudbury doctor goes “outside the wire”
“If you arrive alive, you will survive,” states the motto at the Kandahar Institute of Surgical Science at Kandahar...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008- More.... |
Timmins tackles ALC problem
In January 2008, half of Timmins District Hospital’s 112 acute care beds were taken up by alternate level of care (ALC) patients, most of them frail seniors no longer in need of acute care...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008- More.... |
North rolls out
red carpet for IMGs
They come to Ontario from all over the world, looking for peace and tranquility, economic gain and a better future for their children, but many of them have their hopes dashed. For...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008- More.... |
Sault pharmacist honoured by peers
Sault Ste. Marie pharmacist, Marisa De Rubeis, has been honoured as “Pharmacist of the Year”...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008- More.... |
Health officials take on E.coli
Containing an outbreak of E. coli (Escherichia coli) is not unlike an episode of the popular TV series...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008- More.... |
Common sense keeps E. coli at bay
E. coli 0157:H7 tends to occur naturally in cattle, but can also be found in other animals like sheep, goats....
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008- More.... |
New dietitians fan out across the North
The road is long and the going slow, but day-by-day, patient-by-patient, the message is getting through – now...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008- More.... |
Dermatologist in high demand
Dermatologist Dr. Lyne Giroux provides a wide variety of skin-care treatments within the Sudbury region...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008- More.... |
CritiCall goes high-tech
Not too long ago, emergency room physicians in Ontario who required a consultation with a specialist or the transfer of a critically ill patient to a better equipped hospital could...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008- More.... |
CPSO honours Dr. William McCready
Dr. William McCready, associate dean of faculty affairs at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM)....
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008- More.... |
Sudbury’s Family Health Team in business
The City of Lakes Family Health Team celebrated the opening of its Sudbury site on November 14. The team consists of seven physicians, four nurse practitioners, an RN....
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008- More.... |
Sault Hospital receives BD Canada safety award
Sault Area Hospital (SAH) has received the BD Canada Safety Recognition Award recognizing health-care institutions across Canada that are committed to providing a safer....
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008- More.... |
North struggles to develop FASD services
Imagine being a single mom from Caribou Lake or some other Northern Ontario community and having to travel back and forth to Toronto with three kids in tow for a diagnostic...
Date Published | Oct. 1, 2008- More.... |
North pushes for Regional Geriatric Program
Twenty years after the establishment of regional geriatric programs (RGPs) at academic health sciences centres in Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton and London, efforts are finally underway to...
Date Published | Oct. 1, 2008- More.... |
Geriatric training targets front-line providers
The timing of a $1.7 million project aimed at developing a province-wide network of expertise in geriatric...
Date Published | Oct. 1, 2008- More.... |
LU keeps radiation therapists at home
Laurentian University’s Radiation Therapy program has accomplished two of its primary goals: making training in this profession more accessible to students in Northern Ontario...
Date Published | Oct. 1, 2008- More.... |
Organ procurement a complex and delicate process
The transplant process is complex and delicate, but like any valued commodity, the availability of healthy transplantable organs can be simply a case of supply and demand...
Date Published | Oct. 1, 2008- More.... |
Orthotist opens practice in the Sault
Residents of Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma District with mobility challenges now have a full-time certified...
Date Published | Oct. 1, 2008- More.... |
Sleep doc urges group counselling for insomniacs
Dr. Stuart Holtby, a specialist in sleep medicine, is urging the health-care community to wake up and take insomnia seriously...
Date Published | Oct. 1, 2008- More.... |
Physician assistants ease wait times
During his first few months of employment in the Emergency Department of Timmins District Hospital, Shawn Best figures he spent at least a half hour every day fielding questions from...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008- More.... |
Nurse trades scrubs for boxing gloves
As a registered nurse working the graveyard shift, Amber Konikow spends her nights taking care of gravely sick and injured people in the intensive care unit at Sudbury Regional Hospital...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008- More.... |
Nurse practitioner clinic serves as provincial model
A unique nurse practitioner clinic that opened in Sudbury last summer will serve as a model for 25 similar clinics across the province...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008- More.... |
Docs lace up in Thunder Bay
There was no shortage of doctors in Thunder Bay April 3 to 5 when some 540 physicians from across Ontario descended on the city for the annual Docs-on-Ice hockey tournament...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008- More.... |
North Bay General takes lead in health and safety
When things go wrong in the airline industry, a nuclear power plant or a mine, the result can often be catastrophic. Images of radioactive plumes, body bags and mine rescue teams racing against the clock to free trapped miners have instilled in all three industries a culture of safety that has put the health care sector to shame...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008- More.... |
Hospices set to open across the North
By late this summer, residents of both Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie will be able to receive end-of-life care at two 10-bed residential hospices...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008- More.... |
North gets in line with the Ontario Cancer Plan
Northern Ontario cancer care professionals are working hard to meet the standards set out by the Ontario Cancer Plan for 2008-2011...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008- More.... |
Prostate screening urged for early detection
In 2007, 556 men in northeastern Ontario had a heart-to-heart talk with their urologist. Prostate cancer ranks ahead of breast, colon and lung cancer in terms of the number of cases reported every year, but trails all three in terms of morbidity...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008- More.... |
Lung cancer prognosis bleak
Thoracic surgeons and medical oncologists focused on lung cancer can be excused for their decidedly gloomy disposition...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008- More.... |
Sudbury Regional pilots smoking cessation program
Sudbury Regional Hospital will initiate an in-patient smoking cessation pilot program based on the so-called Ottawa model later this summer, said Dr. Amanda Hey, clinical lead for preventive oncology...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008- More.... |
Breast screening targets within reach for Northern Ontario
A large purple, white and yellow bus roaming the roads of remote northwestern Ontario is a crucial tool in the push to screen more women in the region for breast cancer...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008- More.... |
Dental oncology program improves patients’ quality of life
After patients with oral cancer have surgery to remove growths in their mouths, they are sometimes left with severe defects that could detract from their quality of life...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008- More.... |
Joint Centre speeds surgeries
Patients undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre used to spend as many ...
Date Published | Mar. 20, 2008- More.... |
New home for One Kids Place
When 25-year-old Shawn Venasse of North Bay was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at eight months of age, his mother, Lori, felt very ...
Date Published | Mar. 20, 2008- More.... |
Emergency team improves outcomes
A Medical Emergency Team (MET) at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre is being credited with having a significant impact ...
Date Published | Mar. 20, 2008- More.... |
Tissue bank takes shape
Hospitals in Ontario have a new resource to draw upon when searching for the human tissues needed to do certain surgeries ...
Date Published | Mar. 20, 2008- More.... |
Medical information kits popular
John Whitehead, general manager of Care Link, a medical alarm response company serving Sudbury, North Bay and Timmins ...
Date Published | Mar. 20, 2008- More.... |
Alternate Level of Care patients swamp northern hospitals
It's a little after 10 a.m. and a group of 15 elderly men and women with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are sitting ...
Date Published | Mar. 20, 2008- More.... |
