Tag Archives: Health

Great Gulp slaking thirst

speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMarch 22, 2017CommunityHealth, Healthy Kids Community Challenge

TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – Open wide and take a great big gulp of water today.March 22 is World Water Day.It was proclaimed by the United Nations to highlight a global water crisis that has left more than 660 million people without access to a safe water supply

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Information flow

speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMarch 15, 2017Top Storyboil-water advisory, Health

Boil-water advisories prompt communication reviewDiane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Two recent waterline breaks affecting thousands of residents in New Liskeard and Dymond were repaired within hours.Because they raised the potential for contamination, boil-water advisories were issued until testing confirmed the water was safe to drink.

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ARC Industries closing as province adopts new approach

speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMarch 15, 2017BusinessCommunity Living Temiskaming South, Health

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – ARC Industries will close at the end of April as the province shifts away from sheltered workshops for people with intellectual disabilities.It’s a “very, very exciting time” for us, said Tony Rachwalski, executive director of Community Living Temiskaming South, which operates

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Consumer info for Nutrition Month ’17

speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMarch 15, 2017Communityeducation, Health

TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff/Special) – Temiskaming isn’t getting enough vegetables and fruit.“Only 38 per cent of Timiskaming residents are consuming five or more fruits and vegetables each day,” said Kerry Schubert-Mackey, the Timiskaming Health Unit’s director of community health, in a media release.But they have important health benefits.

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Team in Training

speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMarch 8, 2017CommunityESCSM, fundraiser, Health

Runners support local teen with leukemiaSue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — A Temiskaming Shores couple are running in the oldest road race in North America to raise funds for research into acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a disease which affects a close family friend.

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Doc recruitment incentive restructured

speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caMarch 1, 2017CommunityHealth

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Financial incentives for new doctors serving the Temiskaming Shores area have been restructured.Newly recruited physicians will be offered $10,000 each year for four years if they set up a local practice or are credentialed to work at Temiskaming Hospital.In the

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City rolls into bronze bike-friendly status

speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caFebruary 22, 2017NewsHealth, transportation

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – In the mid-February depths of winter, few people are thinking of biking.But that may change.Temiskaming Shores has been awarded a bronze level standing as a bicycle friendly community by the Share the Road Cycling Coalition.The city joins Thunder Bay

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Helping others at Temiskaming Hospital

speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caFebruary 15, 2017CommunityHealth, Temiskaming Hospital

TEMISKAMING SHORES — Helping others and supporting patients and their families at the Temiskaming Hospital is the goal of an organization that has always been there, working quietly but effectively behind the scenes.The Temiskaming Hospital Healthcare Volunteers (also known as the Temiskaming Hospital Auxiliary) has 70 members and

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EMS chief tells DTSSAB of plans to improve service

speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caFebruary 8, 2017NewsEMS, Health

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter DISTRICT — Internal changes are being implemented at the district’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS).Chief John McCarthy intends the changes to bring improvements to the EMS.A major organizational change expected to be implemented by the end of January or the middle of February will

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Infection control a “system-wide” issue

speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caJanuary 25, 2017NewsHealth

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter ENGLEHART – Controlling infections in a hospital setting is complicated, says the chief executive officer of Englehart and District Hospital.Screening patients and visitors as they enter the facility and working on infection control with all its staff, public health officials and visiting medical specialists

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