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SH-cnatraining-0408-21 Chelsea Stiggle, CNA, helps with a patient at Northern Light Continuing Care in Mars Hill. Northern Light AR Gould Hospital and MSAD 42 are partnering to offer a seven-week CNA training program beginning in June. (Contributed photo) Chelsea Stiggle, CNA, helps with a patient at Northern Light Continuing Care in Mars Hill. Northern Light AR Gould Hospital and MSAD 42 are partnering to offer a seven-week CNA training program beginning in June. (Contributed photo) CNA traini...

Article content Ontario will go into a province-wide, four-week shutdown starting Saturday just after midnight, as cases surge and hospitalizations spike due to COVID-19. Premier Doug Ford on Thursday called it a difficult decision, but that the variants of concern (VOC) meant that the province was “fighting a new enemy, this is a new pandemic,.” Locally, Dr. Paul Roumeliotis — the Eastern Ontario Health Unit’s medical officer of health — in his regularly-scheduled media briefing, sai...

Northern Light AR Gould Hospital, along with its Continuing Care facility in Mars Hill, will reopen for visitors on Wednesday, March 17, on a limited basis.   “This marks an important milestone in our response to the pandemic and underscores the role vaccines play in returning to some normalcy in our lives, particularly in our nursing home,” said Greg LaFrancois, president. “Now that our residents and staff are vaccinated, we feel confident they will be safe with visitors. Of course, we...

September 11, 1934 - February 18, 2021 It is with great sadness we announce the passing of James William Neill. He was born September 11, 1934 and passed away peacefully with family by his side on February 18th, 2021 at the age of 86 years. Jim grew up on the family farm where he farmed with his father and brothers until health issues made it necessary for him to move to Continuing Care in Drumheller. He has resided there for the past 25 years and called it home. He enjoyed all recreational a...

February 22, 2021 Dr. LeJon Poole, Director of the Healthcare Management Program at the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business, was elected to the board for Trinity Health’s Continuing Care as chairman beginning January 2021. Trinity Health is an American not-for-profit Catholic health system operating 93 hospitals in 22 states, including 120 continuing care locations encompassing home care, hospice, PACE and senior living facilities. Based in Livonia, Michigan, Trinity Health employs more than 1...

The president of the Yukon Employees’ Union (YEU) is not happy with Premier Sandy Silver. Last week, during an interview with the Star, Steve Geick said sources within the government had told him during a meeting that up to 60 per cent of health and social services workers were off the job on Feb. 5. During last Thursday’s weekly COVID-19 briefing, Silver and Dr. Brendan Hanley, the chief medical officer of health, were very critical of the figures Geick released and which were reported by...

Over the weekend, Steve Geick, the president of the YEU, posted some startling numbers on social media. “According to the YG Public Service Commission, roughly 60 per cent of Continuing Care staff were off sick yesterday, Friday Feb. 5,” he wrote on the YEU Facebook page. “Group-vaccinated essential workers are dealing en masse with the side effects of their second shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.” Geick said today he received updated numbers that indicated the 60 per cent figure w...

  CORNWALL -- A Cornwall long-term care nurse has been brightening up residents days with her artistic talent throughout this pandemic, by drawing characters on her masks every day. Laura Mackenzie says it all started last spring when the mandatory mask rule was introduced at St. Josephs Continuing Care Centre (JCCC). "It was Good Friday actually and I happened to be with a friend of mine, one of the RPNs, and we decided to draw on each others masks because we wanted to make it fun, we wan...

The Northern Light Continuing Care facility in Mars Hill. (David Marino Jr. | The Star-Herald) The Northern Light Continuing Care facility in Mars Hill. (David Marino Jr. | The Star-Herald) Northern Light says residents, staff testing negative after outbreak in Mars Hill facility More than a week after the Maine CDC opened an investigation into Northern Light Continuing Care in Mars Hill, officials said that strict testing and visitation protocols prevented the outbreak from becoming like o...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Following months of congressional negotiations, on December 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, a $2.3 trillion piece of legislation that includes $900 billion in federal funding and relief for COVID-19.[1] The legislation also includes the No Surprises Act (“Act”), effective January 1, 2022, which significantly bolsters consumer protections for patients by addressing the circumstan...