PARRY SOUND-MUSKOKA — Long-term care providers will receive $786,453 from the province to assist residents with complex health needs. Parry Sound-Muskoka residents will have access to new items such as IV equipment, bariatrics equipment bed support, bladder scanners, and ECGs. The funding also included important everyday things like slip-proof floor mats, wrap around bed rails […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — MPP Graydon Smith says he is “pleased” that MAHC and south Muskoka doctors are at least sitting down again to attempt to resolve their serious differences as a fall deadline for submitting a proposal supported by the full communities soon approaches. In a statement yesterday, which comes the same […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — The middle ground between MAHC and south Muskoka doctors remains an unrelenting battle ground. After another attempt at a resolution last week, presented by some mayors, the impasse remains. Bracebridge Mayor Rick Maloney, who hosted the meeting, couldn’t bridge the growing gulf. Dr. Rohit Gupta, who was only there […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com BRACEBRIDGE — Kim King sat in the middle of Memorial Park this afternoon, with rain drizzling around her — an old umbrella in one hand, a thumbs up in the other and a big grin on her face. She sat only a few feet from the band shell to hear the […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com MUSKOKA — “Quality patient care” — always at the heart of hospital discussions — was again the primary focus of south Muskoka doctors in another round of talks with Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare this week. It’s at least some healthy progress in the stubborn stalemate with physicians that not long ago had […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com SOUTH MUSKOKA — A march down main street Bracebridge Sunday afternoon will coincide with a rally by the Save South Muskoka Hospital committee. Ontario Green Party co-deputy leader Matt Green has been invited to speak at Memorial Park at 1 p.m. after meeting at 12:45 p.m. outside MPP Graydon Smith’s Manitoba […]
Bob Pomerantz, Special to MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — The 31st annual Chamber of Commerce car show provided plenty of eye candy — like the 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Skyliner Retractable hardtop convertible; or the ’68 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow; or the R.E.O. (for company founder Ransom Eli Olds) Speed Wagons or even the odd, amphibious cars wading […]
Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com GRAVENHURST — It’s not the heat, but the rain that’s postponed Thursday’s 2 p.m. Rotary Rocks the Barge grand opening. The much anticipated new summer seating by the service club and town was rescheduled at the last minute after sudden “untimely” torrential rains overnight Monday made final landscaping impossible. Flooding and […]