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.
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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.