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What do you hope for each morning as your tired eyes read the news? You try to be a positive person, but day by day, things are getting worse. The world is in an awful mess. If there is a God, how cruel a deity to let suffering continue. Is […]
Erie Shores HealthCare (ESHC) has officially broken ground in its eagerly anticipated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite, heralding a new era in diagnostic precision and patient care for Essex County. Scheduled to be completed in late 2024, the project is poised to transform healthcare delivery at ESHC. The purchase of […]
To raise youth awareness of the health effects of vaping, the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU) has launched the Break the Vape Challenge. The Break the Vape Challenge is a Public Service Announcement (PSA) video contest. The WECHU encourages local students in grades 6 to 12 to use their voices […]
After a successful trial period, Windsor Regional Hospital’s Paediatric Emergency Diversion Service (PEDs) is getting set to expand to 7 days a week. Thanks to Ontario Ministry of Health funding, the pilot program was rolled out in September 2023 with the aim at reducing the time paediatric patients spend in […]
The Windsor Regional Cancer Centre is proud to offer a new service for cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy. In August, The Paxman Scalp Cooling System (PSCS) also known as ‘cold cap’ became available onsite for patients to book, in an effort to help reduce hair loss during chemotherapy. The […]
Is necessity or curiosity the mother of innovation? Sometimes good old common sense is the driving factor, and there will be no Nobel prize for seeing the obvious. That, however, is what’s behind a new development in barber shops and hair salons. What’s the buzz? It’s that barbers and hairdressers […]
Windsor Regional Hospital was recognized by Ontario Health (Trillium Gift of Life Network) for its outstanding efforts to integrate organ and tissue donation into quality end-of-life care in 2022/23. In total, Windsor Regional Hospital was presented with three awards: Hospital Achievement Award – Provincial Conversion Rate (7th year) reaching a […]
As of January 31, 2024 there are 2,593 elementary school students that are at risk of school suspension on March 1, 2024 due to missing vaccinations or immunization records that have not yet been submitted to the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU) as required by the Immunization of School Pupils Act […]
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU) is proud to have entered a multi-faceted memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of Windsor (UW) in 2022 to better serve the public health needs of Windsor-Essex County. Under this initiative, UW and WECHU have explored the possibility of research and knowledge translation […]