New Year’s Resolutions: Stay On Your Feet
Statistics show that one in three Canadian adults aged 65 and older will experience at least one fall each year. Fortunately, most falls are preventable with the right mix of…
Gift Tag Tree ensures gifts for patients at NBRHC
Kendra Clarke and Taylor Mueller, NBRHC Foundation staff members hanging patient’s wish tags on the giving tree. NORTH BAY – More than 100 patients at the North Bay Regional Health…
Sudbury company to cover tuition for 10 PSWs
Plan A Long Term Care Staffing & Recruitment will cover tuition cost for 10 students interested in taking the PSW program starting in January 2019 at St. Albert Adult Learning…
21 new doctors now serving Sudbury
Front Row (Left to Right): Dr. Prashant Jani (Medical Oncology), Brenna Pugliese (Physician Recruitment Advisor), Dr. Brittney Parlett (Obstetrician-Gynecologist), Dr. Scott Carmichael (Psychiatrist), Dr. José de Wit (Anaesthesia), Dr. Raed…
Top doctors honoured during Family Doctor Week
Dr. Dieter Poenn is Ontario’s top doc. The College of Family Physicians of Canada and its provincial chapters are celebrating Family Doctor Week in Canada. Three Northern Ontario doctors were…
Children’s screening tool exported to other countries
The president of the NDDS board, Marg Peterson, with Fran Couchie, Nipissing District Developmental Screen board vice president. “This checklist constantly amazes us. We thought it was just for North…
Innovative recruitment efforts bring Atikokan to full complement of doctors
“The biggest problem we’re having right now is that capacity in the north in general is a challenge. You’ll find that some communities are very well staffed with doctors for…
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…