Sudbury’s hospice expanding
BY ARRON PICKARD Celebrating its 10-year anniversary in September, Maison McCulloch Hospice originally opened as an 11,000-square-foot, 10-bed facility. Over the past decade, the hospice has added many programs and…
Health data centre opens in Sudbury
Health Sciences North Research Institute (HSNRI), Laurentian University, and Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) celebrated the opening of a new health data centre in Sudbury today. “Through our network…
Dr. Sandra Cameron named program director, NOSM Internal Medicine Residency program
Dr. Sandra Cameron appointed as Program Director for the NOSM Internal Medicine Residency Program, taking over Dr. Kim Tilbe, the School’s long-serving active Program Director The Northern Ontario School of…
Boreal and St. Joseph’s Health Centre team up to address PSW shortage
Collège Boréal and St. Joseph’s Health Centre of Sudbury have teamed up for a first of its kind pilot project aiming at increasing the much-needed Personal Support Worker (PSW) capacity…
Sudbury nurse wins Human Touch Award
Health Science North’s (HSN) Adrienne Barrett, Vascular Access and Independent Dialysis nurse from the Nephrology Program, was honoured by Cancer Care Ontario and the Ontario Renal Network with a Human…
HSN opens Kids Club House Room
Health Sciences North (HSN) officially opened the KICX for Kids Club House, a new treatment room at HSN on the NEO Kids Pediatric Unit in partnership with NEO Kids Foundation…
Changes to Breast Screening Service ‘a bad idea’
Dr. Nadia Alam, a family physician from Georgetown, blames the provincial government, not necessarily HSN administrators, for planned changes to the Breast Screening and Assessment Service at the hospital. Alam…
Health Care doesn’t need more advisers: Hospital union president
Ontario hospitals among Canada’s most efficient — they have to be, given how they’re funded Health Sciences North is among the most efficient, but being efficient won’t fix Ontario’s hallway…
Job cut fears: Hospital workers worry as budget review nears release
But the head of Health Sciences North’s biggest union says he thinks the hospital can trim positions without direct layoffs By Carol Mulligan for Sudbury.com While some employees of Health…
Who needs pharmacare?
Study shows 23.2 million had a private drug plan and 13.1 million had coverage under public drug plans. Source: Canadian Health Policy Institute TORONTO, June 19, 2018 /CNW/ – According… Read more »