Staying healthy: Using your COVID-19 toolkit
Northern Health is working hard to keep Northerners healthy and safe. As COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, you may wonder what tools you still have to protect yourself. Over the past few years, weâ...
Vanderhoof
Moving food closer to home and health care
March is nutrition month! This year’s theme, “Ingredients for a Healthier Tomorrow,” focuses on supporting a more sustainable food system for all. Northern Health’s Position on Healthy Ea...
Physician highlight: Dr. Shannon Douglas, Vanderhoof and area
Dr. Shannon Douglas has spent most of her life in the Lakes Omineca area and cannot imagine a better place to live. Dr. Douglas provides care as a rural family physician to the many communities sur...
Coming together to strengthen maternity care
St. John Hospital in Vanderhoof is the main delivery centre for maternity patients in 18 surrounding communities, including Indigenous communities, that extend as far North as Takla Nation, South to S...
Local artist completes mural at Vanderhoof’s Stuart Nechako Manor long-term care home
Annerose Georgeson, a Vanderhoof-based artist, recently completed a mural for residents in the courtyard at the Stuart Nechako Manor long-term care home. The mural is in recognition of her mother’s ...
School District 91 finds creative ways to celebrate graduates
I’m excited to share the creative ways that School District 91 recently celebrated their graduates. Lakes District Secondary School (Burns Lake), Nechako Valley Secondary School (Vanderhoof), and Fr...
Northern Clinical Simulation assists paramedics’ COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a lot of changes to how heath care professionals manage and respond to medical emergencies. This has required health professionals to continually change their practic...