Bancroft news

• ‘Over 500 emergency scans so far’: Quinte Health shares update on CT Scanner 

  06-09-2024 21:03
  
  In a recent social media post, Quinte health updated the community on the impact the Bancroft hospital’s new CT scanner has had since its arrival. 
  According to Quinte health, The North Hastings Hospital team performed its first CT exam on Jan. 29.
  They say that over the last six months the CT scanner has been “essential to providing high-quality patient care and keeping care close to home”.
  As of mid-August, 1,638 patients had received CT scans at North Hastings Hospital,
  
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• Kijicho Manitou Elders host kids fishing derby and community gathering

  06-09-2024 21:02
  
   The Kijicho Manitou Madouskarini Elders are inviting everyone to gather outdoors, take part in fishing if they’d like, share a meal and more at the 3rd annual Kids Fishing Derby and Community Gathering. 
  The day will feature drumming at the beach, children’s cultural teachings and smudgings, a BBQ, potluck and more, at the lake St Peter Provincial Park beach.
  MooseFM spoke with Algonquin Elder and organizer Jimmy Green, about some of what inspired the first
  
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• Kijicho Manitou Elders host kids fishing derby and community gathering - mybancroftnow.com

  06-09-2024 21:02
  Kijicho Manitou Elders host kids fishing derby and community gathering  mybancroftnow.com
  
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• Mobile dental vans for seniors could be coming to the area 

  06-09-2024 19:59
  
  The launch of two new mobile dental vans was discussed at this week’s Hastings Prince Edward Public Health (HPEPH) Board of Health meeting.
  The mobile dental van initiative began in 2020 when capital funding was approved through the Ontario Seniors Dental Care Program (OSDCP). The vans will enhance accessibility to provincial dental programs for residents in Hastings Prince Edward County and “help bridge the gaps in oral health care within communities, particularly in underserv
  
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• Think Turtle Initiative launches turtle hatchling blues-themed ‘Name-a-Thon’ 

  06-09-2024 19:55
  
  What do the blues and turtles have in common?  
  According to Kelley Wallace from Think Turtle Initiative, it is the time of year in Ontario when freshwater turtle species nests are hatching. The hatchlings are vulnerable to predators and road mortality and “need all the help they can get to navigate their way to water safely.”
  Brant Zwicker, host/executive producer of the syndicated blues radio program At The Crossroads (atcblues.ca), recently voiced a
  
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