News Ontario looking at Palliative Care improvements by studying northeastern programs SHARE ON: Taylor Ablett, staff Monday, Jul. 4th, 2016 Photo: Lianne Valiquette, Palliative-Hospice Care Officer with the NE LHIN (left) takes notes while Erinne Ritchie, a Palliative Pain and Symptom Management Nurse, facilitates discussion at a first-ever Death Café held this Spring in Sudbury. Supplied. The North East LHIN’s seven hospice volunteer visiting programs will be the focus for the province as it looks closer at palliative care. Hospice Palliative Care Ontario will be taking its cues from performance indicators within the seven programs in northern Ontario. HPCO will be examining volunteers working in locations like Elliott Lake, Cochrane, Nipissing, Sudbury, Algoma and Espanola. The LHIN says hospice volunteers play a vital role in providing services, with about 26,000 hours of work with 1,800 palliative patients in the region. (Written by: Greg Rosser)
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