CBC was allowed access to the Thessalon, Blind River and Richard's Landing sites of the North Shore Health Network between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie
Cathy Marshall tears up when she recalls how a northern Ontario hospital saved her from a life-threatening health scare, saying, "I can honestly say I'm here today because of this hospital." Residents from the region's North Shore worry small-town health care is precarious after last year's emergency room closures.CBC was allowed access to the Thessalon, Blind River and Richard's Landing sites of the North Shore Health Network between Sudbury and Sault Ste.
She was discharged from Sudbury to the Blind River Hospital, where she waited for a rehabilitation bed at the Sault Area Hospital, 142 kilometres down the Trans-Canada in the other direction. Her great-grandfather was mayor of Thessalon in 1902. Her husband is a rural family physician in southern Ontario.
Mary Jane Thompson lives in Thessalon and is gathering anecdotes for the Ontario Health Coalition about the problems in accessing rural health care. The beds have never been reinstated and the current administration said that given limited resources, they won't be in the foreseeable future. Still living in the home she was born in and steps from the chapel she goes to, Thompson is digging her heels in.
His advice to those worried about declining health-care service is to be a thorn in the decision-makers' sides.
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