Mass vaccine clinics winding down
The Oshawa Campus Ice Centre mass immunization clinic will be closing in September. As the need for large vaccination clinics are coming to an end in many parts of Ontario, [...]
HEALTH
Site selection survey for new hospital receives more than 13,000 responses
Almost 13,000 community members provided their input on the site for the proposed new hospital in Durham. Lakeridge Health announced the beginning of a site selection process [...]
Lakeridge launches naming survey for new long-term care home
Lakeridge Health is looking for input on naming the new long-term care home in Ajax. The province announced a collaborative partnership with Lakeridge Health last summer to [...]
Have your say on expanding health care in Oshawa
The City of Oshawa is calling on community members to help choose the site of Lakeridge Health’s new hospital. The city says a site in north Oshawa is the ideal location [...]
Construction on long-term care home in Ajax on track
(Photo courtesy Lakeridge Health) It’s been about a year since the province announced a new long-term care home in Ajax, and Lakeridge Health says construction on the [...]
Community input wanted on site selection for new hospital
While Lakeridge Health continues to remain vigilant during the COVID-19 pandemic, planning has resumed on the commitment to build a strong and integrated regional health care [...]
Better patient experience coming to central east Ontario
Lakeridge Health has partnered with six hospital organizations, representing 14 hospitals in Ontario’s Central East Region, to deliver a new, digital clinical information [...]
Lakeridge Health curtailing non-emergency services, surgeries
Lakeridge Health is cutting back on elective surgeries due to the increased number in COVID-19 admissions. A letter to the community, on behalf of Chief of Staff Dr. Tony [...]
Revolution needed for elderly care
Moira Welsh has spent almost two decades writing about seniors living in long-term care and has recently released a book, Happily Ever Older, which details new approaches to [...]
Oshawa vaccination clinic now open for seniors 80 and older
The COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Oshawa is located at the Campus Ice Centre at Durham College and Ontario Tech University. Oshawa’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic opened [...]