Increasing awareness about the urgent need for organ and tissue donation became a family effort this year for 87-year-old Honoria Groves.
Her great-granddaughter, Alexandria, had a life-saving liver transplant this summer when she was five months old.
On Monday, Community Care Information Management, in partnership with the Sault Area Hospital, four Local Health Integration Networks (Champlain, North East, North Simcoe Muskoka, and North West), and eHealth Ontario, completed the launch of the Integrated Assessment Record health-provider portal, “Doorways.”
Like other parts of Ontario, the Northwestern Health Unit is reporting ’flu shot numbers have been lower than usual since its immunization campaign began in mid-October.
“It’s a bit slow,” Donna Stanley, manager of infectious diseases, said during an interview last week.
The Canadian Diabetes Association’s “Clothesline” program continues to be popular here, with local drop box host “Share Bears” seeing 7,482 pounds of reusable items donated in the past year.
The CDA’s major fundraiser is the collection of used clothing and household articles, and their resale through Value Village.
The ongoing battle against substance abuse is being highlighted this week as district communities and organizations mark National Addictions Awareness Week as well as the Ontario-wide Drug Awareness Week.
Sue Martin is a local champion. She fought for her life and won.
A local support group for anyone dealing with an anxiety disorder is starting up this week.
The support group will begin meeting Thursdays at 7 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church (1105 Scott Street), starting this November 4.
Since the age of five, Blair Jack has faced many life-threatening situations with courage and determination.
He came in contact with blastomycosis, which damaged his kidneys and lungs, and his life has not been the same since.
Over the years, Jack, now 30, has been in the hospital many, many times—and many times doctors gave him a limited time to live.
Gearing up for ’flu season, the Northwestern Health Unit began administering immunizations to the public this week.
“Everything’s ready to go,” Donna Stanley, manager of infectious diseases, said yesterday.
“It’s quite smooth, actually,” she noted. “We’ve got a big supply.
The Riverside Breast Health Program last week celebrated 25 years of fighting breast cancer across the district.
“I can’t believe it’s 25 years. This is so exciting,” Eva Thornton, one of the program’s founders and first nurse examiners, enthused to the crowd on hand for a celebratory open house last Wednesday afternoon at La Verendrye Hospital.
