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Apprenticeship information session at employment centre

Greater Sudbury Northern Life YMCA Employment Services, located in the Rainbow Centre, is offering an employment apprenticeship information session Nov. 27 from 5:45 to 8 p.m.

Hospital receiving 24 interim beds

Greater Sudbury Northern Life Sudbury Regional Hospital received approval today from the North East Local Health Integration Network (NE LHIN) to implement 24 interim transitional care beds in order to help alleviate some of the hospital’s existing p
Nurse practitioners to open second clinic site

Nurse practitioners to open second clinic site

Greater Sudbury Northern Life Reporter Janet Gibson The Sudbury Nurse Practitioner Clinic, the first of its kind in the province, will soon open a second site in Greater Sudbury. The clinic has a home base at 359 Riverside Dr.
City celebrates new citizens

City celebrates new citizens

Greater Sudbury Northern Life Reporter Mandi Hargrave Nearly 100 immigrants were welcomed to Sudbury Nov. 19 as they officially became citizens of Canada during a community citizenship ceremony at Tom Davies Square.

Doctors peeved about nurse practitioner clinics

Greater Sudbury Northern Life The Ontario Medical Association is speaking out about the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care delaying the addition of 50 family health teams for one year while opening three new nurse practitioner clinics.

Guideline helps nurses prevent suicide

Greater Sudbury Northern Life Each year in Canada, 4,000 people take their own lives. And now Ontario nurses are going to do something about it.

Mine Mill CAW 598 expects deal on early retirement

Greater Sudbury Northern Life Reporter Bill Bradley Early retirement is one way companies and unions can help each other respond to economic pressures without laying off workers.

Recruiter alarmed doctors could leave

Greater Sudbury Northern Life Reporter Janet Gibson A letter sent by nine doctors to the media last week was “very alarming” to the people who recruit doctors for Sudbury.

Pilot project brings real world to classroom

Greater Sudbury Northern Life Reporter Janet Gibson Standing beside a living, breathing lung, Maurice Rousselle, wearing a white medical jacket, said he absolutely loves his program of study.
Laurentian professors weigh in on crash of 2008

Laurentian professors weigh in on crash of 2008

Greater Sudbury Northern Life Reporter Janet Gibson In years to come, Laurentian University students enrolled in Introduction to Economics will remember the day in November 2008 when three experts visited their lecture hall to help them understand th