Following an announcement from Ontario’s Minister of Health that the province will close 10 supervised consumption services (SCS) sites across the province, RNAO CEO Dr.
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by: Dr. Doris Grinspun
On May 28, we marched to Queen’s Park with a large and vocal group of care providers, families and concerned Ontarians to demand funding for supervised consumption services (SCS) sites across Ontario. Many of those involved were driven by first-hand personal and/or professional experiences that prove SCS saves lives.
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by: Christina Hughes, RN, BScN, Kathy Moreland, RN, MScN, Kimberley Kearsey, Louise Lemieux White, RN, BScN, IBCLC, Mathew McGuigan, RN, BScN
NP and RNAO member Joanna Binch is tenacious and undeterred by barriers that others may find daunting. For more than a decade, she has laid the groundwork to not only help, but also respect and honour her clients in an area of Ottawa that has more rooming houses than any other part of the city....
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by: Kimberley Kearsey
RNAO has been building environmental and social determinants of health into the fabric of its policy and advocacy work for more than two decades (you can read more about this in the latest installment of Conversations with Members, by Dr. Doris Grinspun). In the late 1990s, the association began to think bigger and broader ...