The Northeast LHIN has announced a $6.2 million investment for the area.

CEO Jeremy Stevenson says the funding is being spread out to a number of groups to help marginalized individuals.

“When you meet with these clients they have no where else to go, they need those services.  If we want to have an impact we have to invest where the greatest needs are.  These marginalized individuals are where the greatest needs are,” he says.

Officials say the money is allowing people in North Bay and across the Nipissing-Temiskaming region to have increased access to high-quality primary health care closer to home.

The funding will connect patients with a range of health care professionals, including nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, physiotherapists, social workers, and dieticians.

  • Primary Care Clinic for North Bay’s Marginalized Population: The North Bay Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic (NPLC) is receiving $1.1 million to support the delivery of primary health care and programming that is accessible, non-judgemental, and meets the needs of North Bay’s marginalized population in the downtown core, focussing on improving health equity.
  • Nipissing/Temiskaming Rapid Access Addictions Medicine (RAAM) Clinic: Community Counselling Centre of Nipissing is receiving $200,000 to bring timely medical treatment closer to home for people with opioid and alcohol addictions. The clinic will be based in North Bay and will serve the entire sub-region. The North Bay Recovery Home will provide Addiction Case Management support services to the RAAM Clinic.
  • Family Health Team: The Mattawa Hospital is receiving $581,000 to create a new Family Health Team and offer allied health programs and services to patients of the rural townships of Papineau-Cameron, Mattawan, Mattawa, Calvin, Bonfield, and Chisholm.
  • Indigenous Interprofessional Primary Care Team for Nipissing/North Bay: Nipissing First Nation is receiving $2.6 million to create an Indigenous Interprofessional Primary Care Team to serve the three First Nations of Dokis, Nipissing, and Temagami as well as the Indigenous population in North Bay.
  • Indigenous Interprofessional Primary Care Team for Temiskaming: The Temiskaming Native Women’s Support Group is receiving $1.7 million for a new Indigenous Interprofessional Primary Care Team to serve Indigenous people in the Temiskaming district.