Twenty-five years ago, Kim Montanaro started volunteering as a way to give back to the community and honour family and friends who had gone through a cancer experience.
Due to a limited amount of COVID-19 activity locally, the demand for testing and treatment services is decreasing significantly. As such, the final day of operation for the COVID-19 Assessment Centre will be March 31, 2024.
March 20th is Dietitian Day in Canada. It celebrates dietitians as regulated health care professionals, committed to using their specialized knowledge and skills to translate the science of nutrition into terms everyone can understand to unlock food’s potential and support healthy living for all Canadians.
March is National Social Work Month, and Social Work Week, March 4 to 10, provides an opportunity to raise awareness of social workers as part of the health care team and acknowledge the critical role they have at our Hospital.
Dr. Naana Jumah, an Obstetrician Gynaecologist at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and Assistant Professor at NOSM University, is an ally and advocate for Indigenous maternal health, and the recent winner of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada’s Carl Nimrod Educator Award. A Rhodes Scholar, PhD in Engineering and Harvard-trained physician, Dr. Jumah has chosen to return home to practise in Thunder Bay, where she grew up after immigrating from Ghana as a child.
When we think about healthcare, we often think about cancer, cardiac, stroke, and other “big” diseases. But the truth is, patients in the city and across Northwestern Ontario rely upon the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre for a wide range of care programs every day. In the operating rooms alone, patients come for surgeries of all types including orthopaedics for new knees and hips, urological and gynaecological conditions, eye surgery, and more. They may not be “life-saving” treatments in all cases, but they are all life-changing.
On February 22, 2004, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) opened, combining the services of McKellar and Port Arthur General Hospitals and Cancer Care services. McKellar and Port Arthur General Hospitals had merged in 1995 to become the Thunder Bay Regional Hospital, providing acute care for Northwestern Ontario.
At Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC), the Patient and Family Centred Care (PFCC) philosophy guides everything that we do, with the goal of delivering exceptional care for every patient every time.
We send our deepest condolences to Mona Hardy’s family, friends, her community of Rocky Bay First Nation, and all those affected by this loss as our dear friend makes her way to the Spirit World.
Our Cancer Centre’s Radiation Therapy Department received a provincial innovation award from Ontario Health – Cancer Care Ontario for their Remote Treatment Planning initiative. This award recognizes significant contributions to quality and innovation in the delivery of cancer care in Ontario.
