Hubert d’Entremont, Digby General Hospital site manager and zone lead for restorative care has done a little bit of everything over his four decades working in health care.
Ensuring the safety of patients and staff inside the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) department is at the forefront of what MRI technologist Lynda Vidito’s team does at Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville each and every day.
Her Last Project, a film that chronicles a remarkable woman’s end-of-life journey, premieres on Friday, Sept. 13 as part of the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival’s documentary program. This extraordinary documentary follows Dr. Shelly Sarwal’s story of taking control of her destiny and leaving a lasting legacy. Diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy, an incurable disease, Dr. Shelly Sarwal chose to end her life through medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and to become an organ and tissue donor.
Every month, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) will be featuring one of our more than 7,000 caring, compassionate volunteers who take time out of their own busy lives to help with NSHA's goals of health, healing and learning. Across the province, each and every day, dedicated volunteers enrich the experiences of patients, residents, clients and families in meaningful ways .
Phoebe Mandry returned to Halifax recently after four weeks of volunteering in Tanzania with RadAid International, which “brings radiology to low-resource areas by delivering education, equipment, infrastructure, and support.” Mandry, who normally as a radiation technologist and sonographer in the QEII Health Science Centre’s diagnostic imaging department, was in the east African country to teach ultrasound and bone density testing to sonographers, technologists and residents at the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam.
Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) reminds the public that work to improve parking at Dartmouth General Hospital is now underway and will continue through early fall. The first phase of this work will take place through July and August. During this time, drivers can expect changes to existing roadway patterns that will cause congestion and increased traffic leading to the main entrance, so please plan ahead when visiting the hospital.
The Board of Directors of Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) announced today that Janet Davidson will be interim President and CEO effective Sept. 3, 2019.
When Wendy Brenton moved back to Truro after 25 years, first living in Ontario and then the United States, she called her previous family doctor to see if he would be willing to accept her as a patient again.
When Kirsten Willigar started the Brown Bag Lunch Program at Parrsboro Regional Elementary School, she didn’t realize that the impact of the program would go beyond nutrition.
