Just over four years ago, the CHCN was offered a unique platform to provide health messaging to the Northumberland Community on a weekly basis. Naturally, we jumped all over it!
Since July 2017, the CHCN has hosted a weekly radio show called ‘The Weekly Health Beat’ in partnership with Northumberland 89.7FM. The show started with Adam (Registered Dietitian) and Trish (Nurse and Diabetes Educator) jumping into the studio as hosts of the show and highlighted ‘The Top 10 things you don’t know about a CHC!”
Since then, the 30 minute show has covered a number of different topics that relate to health and our community. Over the years, guests from all over Northumberland, Ontario, and Canada have joined the ‘The Weekly Health Beat’ to discuss everything from clinical topics such as heart disease or diabetes, to social issues that impact our health like housing and food security. The show has hosted many local organizations as guests to promote available resources in the community and to help highlight some of the services that are available to support residents of Northumberland. One thing that we have noticed since the start of launching the ‘The Weekly Health Beat’, is that there are so many amazing health professionals and organizations who are doing wonderful things to make our community safe, healthy and happy!
If you have yet to explore any of the previous shows, you can do so here: https://northumberland897.ca/the-weekly-health-beat
The show was on a brief hiatus for the summer to help plan for more topics and guests in the coming months and will return to hosting live shows with Adam this September. If you have any suggestions for a health topic or a theme to be covered on the show, please send any suggestions to info@porthopechc.ca as we would love to hear from you.
‘The Weekly Health Beat’ runs every Tuesday at 12pm on Northumberland 89.7FM, truly local radio!
