THUNDER BAY, ON – The North West LHIN is pleased to announce that Cathy Farrell has been appointed by an Order-in-Council as the new Vice-Chair to the Board of Directors of the North West Local Health Integration Network (North West LHIN), effective July 11, 2017. Cathy was initially appointed [Read more]
To better meet demand, we have added a Thursday evening session as well. Feel free to print and circulate the poster to your friends and family. We look forward to your input into the future our how we deliver health care in Manitouwadge. Thank you. Jocelyn Bourgoin, C.E.O. Manitouwadge [Read more]
Ontario Reducing Wait Times for Assessments and Referrals Ontario is proposing to expand access to referrals for sex reassignment surgery for transgender people.Currently, patients can only receive a referral for insured surgery through the Gender Identity Clinic program at the Centre for Addiction [Read more]
This will be the final column featured on OntarioNewsNorth.com under the title of Hospital Happenings, as the column is going through a transformation to better reflect healthcare services in the community, watch for the new column in the coming weeks, it will be titled Health Happenings. [Read more]
Parliament saw welcome moments of agreement this week which amounts to good news for Canadians as we passed a New Democrat motion on a pan-Canadian palliative and end-of-life care strategy and got down to work on a government bill for drug safety. The motion should jump-start the government [Read more]
Primary Care Today Conference was held on May 7-11 at the International Centre in Toronto, Ontario.Marathon Family Health Team’s Physician Recruiter, Brett Redden, attended this years event. He was able to promote both our community and its health care team to the over 4000 physicians and [Read more]
Ontario Helping More Patients in Northwestern Ontario Receive the Right Care at the Right Time and at the Right Place Ontario is improving access to local doctors, nurses and other health care providers to help patients in Thunder Bay get the care they need, when and where they need it. The [Read more]
Ontario Improving Access to Remote Communities A winter roads network throughout northern Ontario is making it easier to get vital goods and health care services to remote First Nations communities. With support from the provincial and federal governments, 28 First Nations organizations and the [Read more]
McGuinty Government Reducing Time Paramedics Spend In Hospitals, Creating Jobs Ontario is helping hospitals create more nursing positions dedicated to assisting patients who arrive in emergency rooms (ERs) by ambulance. The province is providing $9.6 million for municipalities to create over 90 [Read more]
