EMS services are getting consolidated in neighbouring parts of the region.
City council voted in favour of combining ambulance bases for Superior North EMS for North Shore and Greenstone communities.
It’s all part of a 10-year master plan, as it’s intended for resources to be distributed across the district amid severe staffing shortages, rising call volumes and other growing and costly obstacles.
Beardmore will keep a paramedic and non-ambulance vehicle for their community medicine set-up.
Bases will then be located in Geraldton and Nipigon, which are an hour away respectively.
Another successful ‘Stuff an EMS’ fundraiser in Dryden.
City Police joined Provincial Police, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Dryden Fire and ambulance personnel Saturday to collect donations of toys, food and cash for Christmas Cheer.
Eight emergency services vehicles came back stuffed to the roof with toys and food.
Dryden GM dealership owner Nick Beyak matched all cash donations, making the total raised $7,563.40.
Northwestern Ontario hospitals are getting an increase in funding for overall operations.
The Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre is welcoming an additional $341,000, while the Dryden Regional Health Centre will see a $185,000 bump.
The Margaret Cochenour Memorial Hospital in Red Lake is getting an extra $68,000, with the Lake of the Woods District Hospital receiving another $292,000
Kenora-Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford made the announcement today. (Tuesday)
Rickford also pledged an additional $1.4-million for land ambulance services for the Kenora District Services Board.
The investment includes funds for an additional paramedic crew in Kenora 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
Rickford says it’s part of a government strategy to end hallway health care.
Dryden Mayor Greg Wilson attended the ceremony in Kenora.
Wilson says “EMS, of course, that affects everybody in our region. So, anything we can do in Dryden to support the whole area, it means everybody wins.”
He adds “Quickly that EMS can respond, the better. Both with proper vehicles but also staffing. That’s huge for our area because you have one area trying to cover another area and it doesn’t work in the north.”
“And I think that the geographic distances aren’t really appreciated in southern Ontario. So, I think this attempt at addressing it, it’s taking us in the right direction.”
Wilson says the City of Dryden supports the efforts of the Kenora District Services Board, the provincial government and the direction that they are going as well as local MPP Greg Rickford.
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