Human Resource pressures facing GBHS Emergency Departments
Many hospitals across Ontario are experiencing staffing shortages, and the availability of emergency department physicians is causing concern locally at Grey Bruce Hospital Service...
Province expanding routine vaccine program
The Grey Bruce Health Unit wishes to advise primary care providers, community organizations, residents and others of the government of Ontario’s plan to expand...
MPP announces increased operating funding for hospitals
Although Grey-Bruce Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker recently said that he will not be running in the upcoming Provincial election, he announced today (May...
Good Food Box looking for volunteers
This week is National Volunteer Week and the theme this year is 'Empathy in Action'.
Grey-Bruce Good Food Box is a volunteer-powered, community-based program aimed...
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month
April 2022 is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. We’re honouring the approximately 10,000 people in Southwestern Ontario with Parkinson’s disease (PD), letting them know that they...
Public Health: Spring testing of drinking water sources encouraged
With the arrival of warmer temperatures, the Grey Bruce Health Unit is encouraging residents on private drinking water systems to get their water tested.
Spring...
Grey Bruce receives optional Novavax vaccine
The Grey Bruce Health Unit is pleased to announce that it has received a limited number of doses of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, which...
Southwest hospitals to maintain masking requirements
Hospitals across the South West region have updated their ongoing protections against COVID-19, and confirmed that current masking requirements for all individuals entering their...
Avian flu confirmed in Grey-Bruce
Under the leadership of the Chief and Council of the Chippewas of the Nawash Unceded First Nation, the Grey Bruce Health Unit is supporting...
Influenza A arrives in Grey-Bruce
The Grey Bruce Health Unit received laboratory results Thursday confirming that Influenza A is a Grey-Bruce resident.
Area health care practitioners are being notified.
There were...
