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Winds Damage Dryden Area Family Health Team Building

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Powerful winds Sunday night caused a bit of damage to the Family Health Team building and some information technology systems at the Dryden Regional Health Centre.

Staff and service personnel are on site to address and remedy any damage.

Services at the Family Health Team will be open Tuesday as normal.

The safety of staff and patients is DRHC’s number one priority.

DRHC appreciates ongoing patience and cooperation, if any delays or inconveniences be experienced.

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AUDIO: Dryden Regional Health Center Completes First Anterior Hip Replacement

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The Dryden Regional Health Center has hit another milestone this week in performing their first anterior hip replacement surgery.

CEO of DRHC, Doreen Armstrong-Ross explains that this is a leading surgery that will benefit not only community members, but the entire northwest region.

“Care close to home is something that the Dryden Regional Health Center focuses on. Certainty we can’t have everything. But we’re one of the very few places in Canada and certainty one of the very few small hospitals that can offer this level of procedure. Its really important to get these into the community and people to get care close to home.”

The Dryden Regional Health Center began the process to get the surgery to Dryden before COVID-19 hit.

Ross says she is very proud of DRHC staff for stepping up, in an already busy time to get trained and be able to offer this surgery.

“To be able to offer this in August, when we’re still in the pandemic and really just in the beginning stages of re-opening is a really remarkable thing. It really speaks to the commitment DRHC staff has to our community. We’re working really hard to catch up for everything and we’re happy that these patients that have been waiting for hip replacements will be able to get it done with a real leading edge hip replacement procedure.”

With this hip replacement surgery patients go home the same day and there’s a shorter recovery time.

By end of week, the DRHC will have completed 8 anterior hip replacement procedures.

  1. Doreen Armstrong Ross-CEO DRHC


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More Services Returning To Dryden Hospital

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The Dryden Regional Health Centre is beginning a gradual resumption of many of their services.

With approval of the Northwestern Health Unit and Ontario Health North, select services that were suspended in March will begin to return next week.

Such services include physiotherapy and occupational therapy, diagnostics, general surgery, primary care, mental health and addictions and anaesthesia clinics.

The hospital also says maybe later in the summer, specialty surgeries and services may return including orthopaedics, gynaecology, plastics, otolaryngology and rheumatology.

More details can be found below.

Media Release_ DRHC Re-Intr… by Rayson Martyn on Scribd

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Recognizing The Work Of Nurses During National Nursing Week

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This is National Nursing Week and CKDR is recognizing the amazing work our dedicated nurses do across the country and here in the region as well.

With the threat of COVID-19, this week carries more importance than ever.

Dryden’s Dawn Armstrong is the Regional Vice President for the Ontario Nurses Association and she has been a Registered Nurse at the hospital for 29 years and she says all nurses deserve recognition.

“All of our hard working nurses out there. The nurses that work at the Health Unit. We have Para-Med Home Care nurses. We have our Local Health Integrated nurses working from home. All of our hard working nurses at Princess Court.”

Armstrong says “Favourite part of my job is actually being a mentor and a leader. I have been involved in the union basically since I started my career and have done several jobs within it. It was always my goal to become a member of the Board of Directors so that I can advocate and be a mentor and leader.”

Armstrong notes she initially wanted to become a doctor, but once she worked as a nurse for some time, she fell in the love with the job and kept doing it.

She admits it can be a tough job sometimes and you may miss a lot of events and birthdays, so if you want to get into the profession, you really must have a passion for helping people.

To hear more from Dawn Armstrong, visit the Audio link below.

(Picture provided by the Dryden Regional Health Centre)

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Visitor Restrictions In Place At Dryden Hospital

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The Dryden Regional Health Centre is taking some extra precautions with the rising concern of COVID-19.

According to a release, visitors are not permitted at the hospital effective immediately and will stay in place until further notice.

The release states that one care partner is welcome at all times and is designated by the patient.

There will be limited exceptions that may be permitted to end of life, paediatric, Medical Assistance in Dying or other patients with extenuating circumstances and will be determined by the Nursing Supervisor.

Any patients and visitors that experience respiratory-like illness including fever or a new or worsened cough, shortness of breath are advised to stay at home unless the symptoms are sever enough to warrant medical attention.

Further restrictions may come in to place as the situation develops.

The release also says although these precautions are being taken, the risk in our area remains low.

Dryden Regional Health Centre CEO Doreen Armstrong-Ross says they want to “limit the amount of people within the organization to leave us better prepared to care for all the patients we do have.”

Media Release_ Visitor Restrictions DRHC_March 2020 by Rayson Martyn on Scribd