“The Liberal government must end the secrecy surrounding medical tourism in Ontario. Frontline health care professionals can see that the Liberals have quietly opened a backdoor to put profits ahead of patients, threatening to undermine the public health care system we all hold dear. Even the [Read more]
Wednesday, September 10, 2014, the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Federal Minister of Health, announced the launch of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA), a national initiative aimed at tackling the growing onset of dementia and related illnesses and improving the lives of [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – The NDP is demanding that the Minister of Health explain serious oversights in drug safety, including why drug manufacturers that repeatedly failed to meet safety standards are allowed to distribute their products in Canada. “Medicine is a matter of life and death for thousands of [Read more]
During the last five months, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) has been collaborating with Northern Ontarians to develop the School’s Strategic Plan for 2015-2020. Wednesday, September 17, 2014 will be the final day to complete the School’s Strategic Planning survey (available in [Read more]
Creating Jobs, Strengthening Health Care in Northern Ontario THUNDER BAY, ON – Premier Kathleen Wynne visited the Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute today, where she announced that the government will help it expand its patient-centred health care research and create 29 new jobs. “Our [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 Adds More Hospital Beds for Epilepsy Monitoring and Testing Ontario is more than doubling the number of hospital beds for epilepsy patients in order to enhance their care and reduce wait times for diagnostic testing. The province is adding 21 new epilepsy monitoring unit beds at [Read more]
Health-care professionals across Northern Ontario are invited to attend the four-part webinar series on Francophone health and culture. This series will take place on the fourth Thursday of each month, beginning January 23, 2014. This series will be conducted in English and facilitated by Health [Read more]
Partnership between key health educators will pool resources, improve student learning opportunities, and ultimately lead to better patient care THUNDER BAY, ON – A major new partnership between key health care educators in the region aims to pool resources and increase training capacity – [Read more]
Flu Update 101 lab-confirmed cases of the flu (influenza) 6 flu-related deaths 5 deaths in adults under the age of 65 and 1 in an adult over 65 All were positive for Influenza A (5 confirmed as sub type H1N1) Everyone over the age of 6 months should get the flu shot. People at high-risk [Read more]
Green Light For myCare MANITOUWADGE, ON – Late in 2012, the Manitouwadge General Hospital (MGH) initiated a one year pilot project with the North West Community Care Access Centre (NWCCAC) to deliver home nursing services by the nursing staff of MGH to the residents [Read more]
New Health Link to Co-ordinate Care for Seniors and Patients with Complex Conditions High needs patients in the City of Thunder Bay Integrated District Network (IDN) will soon benefit from better coordinated care from a new Health Link bringing together all health providers in the community. [Read more]
This week I met with representatives from ALS Canada who explained they were concerned about the impact the conservative budget is having on their organization. They are looking to have parliament reinstate the funding they were receiving up until 2012 that had been cut in last year’s omnibus, [Read more]
THUNDER BAY AND ORILLIA , ON – Lakehead University researchers are receiving more than $1.5 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for exciting projects relating to new media, First Nations renewable energy initiatives and economic development, [Read more]
Originally from the U.S., Annie earned her Canadian Citizenship in 2013. Annie & her Husband live in Pic River First Nation. She works as full-time as an Adult Mental Health and Addictions Therapist at the Marathon office of North of Superior Counseling Programs. Annie Wenger-Nabigon, [Read more]
