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Cassellholme Home for the Aged has started making room to accept hospital patients, according to the long-term care home’s executive director.
“I can tell you we are moving the pieces around in order to accommodate patients from the hospital. We already have eight new admissions scheduled and approximately another eight in the coming days and weeks,” he told The Nugget Wednesday. “Everyone needs to do their part.”
The province announced hospitals will begin moving chronically ill hospital patients out of hospitals and into long-term care homes to free up space for COVID-19 patients.
This move can be done without the consent of a patient or their substitute decision-makeras a result of an amendment to the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act, provided a doctor agrees their medical needs can be met in that setting.
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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.
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A 42-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the assault of a mental health worker at the North Bay Regional Health Centre’s King Street location in December.
Appearing by video from the Sudbury Jail, Scott Fisher pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to aggravated assault resulting in disfigurement and failing to comply with a probation order in connection to the Dec. 9, 2020, incident, in which the accused struck the victim with a telephone receiver.
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Fisher also pleaded guilty to an assault committed Nov. 24, 2020, and uttering threats to cause bodily harm on Nov. 10, 2020. In both instances, Fisher pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a probation order, as well.
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Dave Dale, Special to The Nugget
Critical care nurse Annette Trudel wants Northern Ontario residents to benefit from her experience treating extremely sick COVID-19 patients at Toronto General Hospital.
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Trudel, who grew up in Mattawa and started her career in North Bay, said it’s important to understand how serious the situation has become, especially with hospitals in the region receiving overflow patients from southern Ontario.
“I just want people there to understand the gravity of the situation with COVID,” Trudel said during a recent telephone interview.