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Preterm babies will no longer have to be treated out of South Canterbury.

Barbara “Barb” Ann Kent, 82 of Lititz, passed away at her residence with family by her side on October 4, 2021. Born in Ashland, PA she was the daughter of

The Government of Saskatchewan says it has identified a “testing issue” at the Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory in Regina that led to a “large number” of invalid tests.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority and the Ministry of Health have identified an instrument error at the Roy Ro...

The Sheridan Memorial Hospital Foundation is matching all gifts in June to finish the Transitional Care Expansion Campaign.  The Foundation is an organization that devotes its time and fundraising efforts to help Sheridan Memorial Hospital. Funding from individual, corporate, foundation gifts and grants enables the Foundation to financially assist Sheridan Memorial Hospital with strategic and vital healthcare projects. The latest project is the expansion of the Transitional Care Unit. Accordin...

An important vehicle for doctors to take back control by keeping administrators from playing at medicine has oddly stayed under the radar.

Mrs. Lena (Filomena) Buttazzoni passed away on April 22, 2021 following a lengthy illness with family by her side. Born on October 24, 1931 in San Daniele del Friuli, Udine, Italy, Lena was the eldest of four children. In January 1953, she came to Canada to marry her childhood sweetheart, Tony. She arrived with only a travel trunk filled with linens that she embroidered and her Singer sewing machine which she used regularly until her passing. Lena and Tony were married for 68 years and ...

One of the ways that the independent monitor answered questions about charity care is they explained that when Mission was being purchased by HCA they had the option to move forward with Mission’s charity care policy. And instead, the board at Mission felt that HCA’s policy was actually going to cover patients better. And so they did make changes to that charity care policy to go with HCA’s policy instead. Here’s how Ron Winters, principal of Gibbins Advisors, talked about charity care ...

  BARRIE, ONT. -- Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) is dealing with another COVID-19 outbreak after three patients tested positive for the virus. The Barrie hospital confirmed an active outbreak in its Cardiac Renal Inpatient unit Thursday. In a release, the hospital said all other patients tested negative and will be retested later this week. Each patient is in isolation and being closely monitored for symptoms. The hospital provided the health unit with a contact list of rece...

A community gift supporting Sheridan Memorial Hospital’s Transitional Care Unit expansion project means that a 100 percent match will be made for all gifts made for the project this month. Richard Garber, who’s president of the Memorial Hospital Foundation Board and co-chairman of the expansion campaign, announced the “extremely generous” gift, saying any size donation to the project made this month will be doubled. He said the matching gift could not have come at a more important mom...