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Health Sciences North is working with partners across Northeastern Ontario to support the provinceâs critical care demand by transporting COVID-19 patients by land ambulance from southern Ontario hospitals who are in need of critical care.
COVID-19 admissions to intensive care units remain high at many hospitals in the southern part of the province.
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âDuring these difficult times, the health care system must work as one to provide critical care to patients everywhere in Ontario,â Mark Hartman, senior vice-president of patient experience at HSN and chair of the hospitalâs COVID-19 incident command team, said in a release. âSo, as of May 5, HSN and City of Greater Sudbury Paramedic Services have transported a total of six COVID-19 patients from hospitals in southern Ontario to
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The Nipissing University Student Union (NUSU) is applauding a decision by Canadore College and Nipissing University to put forward a plan that will allow students in the Collaborative Bachelor of Science in Nursing program to “progress to the next level of study.”
About 200 students were shocked Monday to find they had been assigned INP, INC (incomplete) or UNSAT (unsatisfactory) marks, which has been blamed on the inability of many to take part in the clinical portion of their year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The effect of chronic underfunding to Ontario’s hospitals over the next eight years is going to be felt particularly hard in Northeastern Ontario, according to…
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The Nipissing University Student Union (NUSU) is calling on Canadore College and instructors in the Collaborative Nursing Program it operates with the university to apologize to almost 200 students who received unsatisfactory, in progress or incomplete marks this year.
The marks mean the students will be unable to progress and may have to repeat their year of studies, which the student union blames on students’ inability to attend clinical hours at the North Bay Regional Health Centre due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The North Bay Regional Health Centre will delay all elective surgeries starting Monday in an effort to ensure the province’s health-care system can help critically ill patients.
The hospital says the decision is in line with the chief medical officer of health’s Directive No. 2, which calls for the cessation of non-emergency and non-urgent elective surgeries and procedures in order to preserve system capacity to deal with COVID-19 effectively.
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All urgent and emergent surgeries and procedures will continue at North Bay Regional Health Centre and patients will continue to have access to related health services, such as diagnostics.