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Dementia patients take up Ontario psychiatric beds ill-suited to their care: experts

Dementia patients take up Ontario psychiatric beds ill-suited to their care: experts

Medical experts describe the trend as troubling, noting such moves threaten to overtax a mental health system that struggles to deliver adequate psychiatric care at the best of times
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HSN boosts bed capacity by at least 40, converting space at Daffodil Lodge

HSN boosts bed capacity by at least 40, converting space at Daffodil Lodge

New beds at facility for out-of-town cancer patients will take the pressure off pandemic demands and surgeries; temporary measure will be in place until summer 2021
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Nurses rally in Sudbury call for more staff and more PPE

Nurses rally in Sudbury call for more staff and more PPE

‘We are angry. We are upset. We are disappointed with the Ford government. From day one, they have not listened to what Ontario nurses have had to say about the pandemic’
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Canadian med journal suggests 'COVID Zero' achievable, but only with strict lockdown

Canadian med journal suggests 'COVID Zero' achievable, but only with strict lockdown

It points to the success of Melbourne, Australia, which eliminated COVID cases after 16-week lockdown
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Alarm bells: Pandemic has nurses, PSWs suffering high COVID infection rate, job stress

Alarm bells: Pandemic has nurses, PSWs suffering high COVID infection rate, job stress

Frontline health-care workers being told they cannot refuse work that might put them in danger
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Angels in Pink donate $10K toward new MRI for HSN

Angels in Pink donate $10K toward new MRI for HSN

HSN currently only has one MRI, which operates 24/7 to meet demand
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Gélinas bill aims to unfetter Ontario’s chief medical officer from politics

Gélinas bill aims to unfetter Ontario’s chief medical officer from politics

Bill 227 would make chief medical officer of health an independent officer of the legislature, independent of the Ministry of Health
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Metro recalling 21 products from shelves due to possible Salmonella contamination

Metro recalling 21 products from shelves due to possible Salmonella contamination

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning consumers not to consume the recalled products
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Ontario doctors comment on public rallies and protests against lockdowns

Ontario doctors comment on public rallies and protests against lockdowns

Medical association says some protests ‘causing more harm than good’
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Greater Sudbury area's opioid death rate is three times the national average, stats show

Greater Sudbury area's opioid death rate is three times the national average, stats show

Rate is far higher than Toronto, Peel, Ottawa, Windsor or Niagara, and is the highest in the North
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