Ontario Healthcare

• St. Lawrence College unveils specialty nursing lab thanks to $400K donation

  St. Lawrence College unveils a $400K specialty nursing lab to tackle Ontario’s nurse shortage, offering hands-on training for students starting January 2025.

  Canada

  Dec 5, 2024
  
• Plan to divide services between 2 Central Ontario hospitals moves ahead

  On July 2, the board of directors unanimously voted in favour of its healthcare planning consultants to proceed with detailed planning for redeveloping its hospital sites.

  Health

  Jul 3, 2024
  
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• Federal government signs $3.1-billion health accord deal with Ontario

  Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed a $3.1-billion deal with Ottawa to improve access to primary health care.

  Health

  Feb 9, 2024
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• Ontario provides Trent Hills Family Health Team $220K to improve primary care

  Northumberland-Peterborough South MPP David Piccini announced $221,933 for the Trent Hills Family Health Team which provides care to more than 11,480 patients at three sites.

  Politics

  Feb 9, 2024
• Woman with ‘debilitating’ chronic pain waits decades for endometriosis diagnosis

  After struggling with debilitating pain her whole life, a 44-year-old Ontario woman is grateful to finally have answers, but angry it took almost 30 years to get help.

  Health

  Feb 3, 2024
• Two health centres partner to create new obstetrics clinic for marginalized women

  The women that the obstetrics clinic are trying to reach have socioeconomic barriers that prevent them from accessing traditional healthcare providers.

  Canada

  Jan 31, 2024
• Muskoka hospital says patient volumes surge to 150 per cent capacity

  Patient volumes at a pair of hospitals in central Ontario have surged to as high as 150 per cent of its capacity, the health-care network is warning.

  Health

  Oct 6, 2023
• Ontario boosts Land Ambulance Service Grant for Peterborough County-City Paramedics

  Funding via the Land Ambulance Service Grant (LASG) will see the paramedic service receive $9,490,038 in funding for 2023 — an addition of $914,328 to $8.7 million in 2022.

  Health

  Sep 22, 2023
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• Ontario funds return of dedicated offload nursing program at Ross Memorial Hospital

  On Monday, the City of Kawartha Lakes and Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay announced the province is providing up to $195,000 in one-time funding.

  Health

  Sep 11, 2023
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• Campbellford Memorial Hospital unveils rendering of proposed Campus of Care

  The Campus of Care proposal includes a redeveloped 50-bed hospital, a new 128 long-term care home, offices and more on a large plot of land on County Road 30 near Campbellford.

  Health

  Sep 6, 2023