Today, the Northern Health Region opens its new Community Care Clinic at the Thompson General Hospital.
The clinic, located in Room M-170 on the main floor of the Hospital, will operate 7 da.
Out-of-town laboratory medical technologists, adjusted hours at the lab for outpatients, and point-of-care testing are some methods that Shared Health is using to manage a current staffing shortage a.
With the Thompson hospital lab down to three technologists, their union fears that could compromise its ability to provide full emergency room services.
Thousands of people in the northern Manitoba city of Thompson have signed a petition asking the province to bring back the preventive foot care nursing services that were offered at the Thompson Clinic until 2019.