As you drive around Thunder Bay this winter, you may spot a unique looking blue and white mobile coach parked at various locations around the city. This is the Screen for Life Coach. Inside it contains a mammography unit and a nursing room, designed to offer breast, cervical and colon cancer screening in one convenient location.
Heart health is important year round, but the cold weather that we experience in Northwestern Ontario can affect our hearts in ways you may not expect. We asked Dr. Andrea MacDougall, an interventional cardiologist and medical program director of the Cardiovascular Science Program at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, to help us understand what happens to our hearts when we are exposed to the cold and what we can do to stay heart healthy this winter.
The year 2022 had a lot to offer Suzan. She celebrated the 15-year anniversary of her business, she finished an exercise and wellness program, and she rang the bell at the Cancer Centre at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, indicating she completed her cancer treatment.
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre has introduced a new parking system for patients, families and visitors. Instead of a chip coin, people will now receive a paper parking ticket when entering parking lots.
I am pleased to share my final report of 2022 to the community as Chair of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre Board of Directors. And the headline for 2022, in my opinion, is ‘TBRHSC Perseveres Through a Record Challenging Year”.
The Laboratory Services team at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) provides an essential service in delivering safe, quality health care to patients. These medical laboratory professionals are trained in wide range of procedures, performing tests on biological specimens that help physicians diagnose and treat patients.
In Northwestern Ontario, there are over 60 Indigenous communities. For certain types of cancer, rates are increasing among the Indigenous population. Research suggests that culturally appropriate screening and education could help detect cancers early.
Our Hospital has moved its internal COVID-19 Pandemic Response Level from Orange (Restrict) to Red (Control). This decision was based on the need to increase response activities and protective measures geared to decreasing transmission of viruses and preserving hospital capacity and staffing as a result of the increased level of COVID-19, influenza and respiratory virus within the community.
Kinesiologists are regulated health professionals who study human movement and the relationship between physical activity and health. They are committed to enhancing quality of life through the promotion of physical activity and workplace health & safety, the prevention and management of injury and chronic disease, and the overall improvement of health and performance.
Each day during Nurse Practitioner Week (November 13-19), we are spotlighting Nurse Practitioners (NPs) to highlight some (but not all!) of the important roles they fulfill at our Hospital and in our community. Today, we’d like to introduce you to Kathryn Bill and Jeff Yahn.
