Rural Healthcare

McMaster Children’s Hospital operates as a touchpoint for staff at rural hospitals to call in for expert guid-ance when a child can’t breathe.

There are dozens of health occupations that will benefit from the funding, including audiologists, dietitians, lab technologists and radiation therapists.

NOSM student, Claire Poulin, takes a deep dive into the lack of care available to pregnant patients in rural Northern Ontario.

In Lloydminster, a city on the Saskatchewan-Alberta boundary, Mayor Gerald Aalbers says doctors who want to work in his community are facing roadblocks.

Many of the province’s more isolated hospitals that rely on locums have been benefiting from the Temporary Locum Program, which pays them a premium.

The max amount is rising by 50%.

The agreement introduced a new payment model and creates permanent virtual care codes, among many other updates.

Applying the health services coordination model created by the Rural Coordination Centre of British Columbia could be a game changer for Northern Ontario, according to a new paper by an independent think tank.