Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – Current clients will continue receiving in-home, school and clinic services despite a strike by some unionized staffers, says the North East Community Care Access Centre.The services – which include personal care, nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy –
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Visitor restrictions lifted
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Special) – The door is open once again to visitors at Temiskaming Hospital’s long-term care unit.The hospital lifted its visitor restrictions January 22.They’d been in place since January 15 after an outbreak of influenza A.In a news release, the hospital reminded people to refrain
When quitters are winners
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff/Special) – The rewards of quitting smoking are many, from better health to saving money.But going smoke-free could also earn a quitter a new car.The Canadian Cancer Society’s Driven to Quit Challenge is back.It offers participants who stay smoke-free for the month of March
The route to better healthcare
Speaker Reporter Darlene WroeRecently I travelled over to Sudbury to be checked over to try to decipher a weird symptom I keep experiencing.The doctor I met there
Englehart hospital lifts visitor restrictions
ENGLEHART (Special) – Visitors are welcome once again at Englehart and District Hospital.Restrictions were lifted January 12 after eight days had passed with no new cases of influenza A.But in a news release, the hospital stressed that regulations governing visitors will be enforced, and described them as
Temagami awarded assisted living services
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – It’s going to be a little easier for frail seniors in Temagami to stay in their homes.The North East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) is providing $128,000 to provide assisted living services for eight high-risk seniors.It’ll mean 24-hour access to
Baby Janessa still facing serious health problems
Hospital reiterates: not cutting staff or clinical services
DISTRICT (Staff/special)– A release from the Temiskaming Hospital December 12 reiterates their stand on cutting staff and clinical services.“Temiskaming Hospital has been facing fiscal challenges for three years now. Without effecting change, we will have a shortfall of approximately $1.4 million this year. This is clearly not sustainable
NO MORE CUTS
Registered nurses and health care workers, members of CUPE Local 904, rallied near the New Liskeard Post Office on Friday, December 12 to raise public awareness of Registered Nurses cuts and other job cuts coming from the Temiskaming Hospital. Timiskaming-Cochrane NDP MPP John Vanthof and Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie
Dialysis pioneer dies
SUDBURY (Special) – A physician described as a pioneer in dialysis treatment in Northeastern Ontario has died.Health Sciences North in Sudbury announced that William Fay died November 14 at the age of 72.Prior to Dr. Fay’s introduction of the dialysis program to Sudbury in 1973, patients suffering