Rural Physician and Health Services Review

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Rural Physician and Health Services Review

• Your ideas
• Your voice
• Your chance

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to contribute to the development of solutions

• Did you know
• about the community
• about facilities
• about rural doctors
• Current challenges
• The future

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about the community

• covers more than 32,000 square km
• population of 70,183
• demographics
• 73 towns and municipal councils

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about facilities

• 20 acute care and 28 long term care centres
• 348 acute beds equals 4.96 beds/1000 pop.
• average occupancy of 55 for acute beds

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about facilities/services

• Public Health
• Mental Health
• Home Care
• Clinics
• Emergency Services
• Diagnostic Services
• Rehabilitation Services

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about rural doctors

• 59 Full-time and 9 Part-time physicians
• Recruited 45 doctors over the past 4 years
• Number of students in first year medicine
• Number of students choosing family practice

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about rural doctors/other professionals

• Nurses
• Diagnostic Technologists
• EMS
• Home Care
• Pharmacy
• Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy

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Current challenges

• Human resources
• Local services
• H signs
• Not alone in this

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The Future

• Training programs are on the increase
• Office of Rural and Northern Health
• Coordinated Physician Recruitment strategy
• Work together to make it happen

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Rural Physician and Health Services Review

• You can make a difference for better health care.

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