Manitoulin family doctor honoured by peers
Dr. Maurianne Reade has been practising in Mindemoya for 15 years Dr. Maurianne Reade had only planned to practise medicine on Manitoulin Island for six months, but the beauty of…
Screen addiction: a mental health problem
Inpatient care required in extreme cases Girls resorting to self-harm and suicide attempts over relentless bullying online, boys staying up all night playing video games, sleeping during the day and…
ED wait clock empowers patients, eases patient flow
Wait times for Sault Area Hospital Emergency Department posted online Sault Area Hospital is the first Emergency Department (ED) in Northern Ontario to implement a wait clock. Now, before going…
Toolkit helps case managers with dementia care
Trans-Atlantic research collaboration produces valuable resource for optimizing interactions A research program involving collaborators from Huntington University in Sudbury, the North East Community Care Access Centre, Windescheim University of Applied…
Quality tables tackle health care challenges
Health Quality Ontario initiative promotes sharing of best practices Regional Health Quality Tables in the North East and North West LHINs have their work cut out for them based on…
Mobilization hubs support people at risk
Social service agencies work together to reduce crime rates Community mobilization tables are popping up across the province as social service agencies discover the value of working together in a…
Dementia strategy planning underway
Projected increase in aging population prompts dementia strategy When Dale Hall’s 84-year-old father-in-law, Ernie, began forgetting to eat, the family didn’t think much of it because Ernie had always been…
HSN’s Virtual Critical Care program used for high-risk delivery
You are going into labour 8 weeks early. Your local hospital doesn’t normally deliver babies, let alone babies that are premature. And the one-hour trip by ambulance to the referral…
North East LHIN puts focus on fall prevention
It takes a community to prevent a fall One in three older adults fall each year, accounting for 6,400 Emergency Department visits in the North East LHIN and almost as…
SAH first in North to implement restaurant-style menu
Steaming avoids overcooking and retains nutrients The dinner menu boasts a soup or salad followed by one of 16 different hot entrées, not to mention six dessert choices. Lunch has…