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Join us virtually on Tuesday, October 27th at 4 pm for our Annual General Meeting! All community members are welcome to attend! To register, please contact Carolyn Rutherford by October 26, 2020 at 905-885-2626 ext. 209 or [email protected] with your first and last name as well as your email ...

September 1, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRES OF NORTHUMBERLAND DENTAL PROGRAM GROWS TO SERVE MORE LOW INCOME SENIORS As part of a 90 million dollar investment to fund a comprehensive plan to end hallway medicine, Ontario has launched many programs to help keep seniors healthier, longer within ...

Covid-19 has caused a big shift in how we connect and work with members of the community, at the CHC we have worked hard to make these shifts to ensure our clients and participants still get access to the services that they need. We will continue going forward to ...

The Community Health Centres of Northumberland is pleased to announce it has received a grant of $10,000 from Community Food Centres Canada’s Good Food Access Fund. The grant will enable us to support more then 150 families, couples and singles and provide a weekly meal to two emergency shelters ...

A huge shoutout and thank you to the Port Hope Panthers hockey team, who held a food drive and bake sale for our Emergency Food Cupboard on Saturday, February 1st. We are so grateful for both the warm welcome and the generous food and cash donations. Check out the ...

The Volunteer Peer Support (VPS) program—one of three new programs coming to our community as part of the Year 1 activities of the Ontario Health Team of Northumberland (OHT-N)—will see well-trained peer volunteer facilitators support Northumberland seniors and their caregivers experiencing persistent complex problems and conditions with the introduction ...

Last updated: November 16th, 2021 The Community Health Centres of Northumberland (CHCN) continues to closely monitor the situation with COVID-19. It is the intention of the CHCN to continue to minimize risk to clients, staff, and visitors to the Centre and therefore we continue to implement a screening process ...

Questions about Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)? Learn more at the next PACE talk, with Dr. Mark Essak – January 15, in Port Hope NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, Friday, January 10, 2020 — This month’s PACE conversation will take place at the Community Health Centres of Northumberland, 99 Toronto Road, Port ...

Ontario Launches Free Routine Dental Care for Low-Income Seniors December 17, 2019 Port Hope, ON — As part of its comprehensive plan to end hallway health care, Ontario is investing in programs that keep seniors healthy in their communities longer. Each year in Ontario, preventable dental issues like gum ...

Currently, in Canada, only nine percent of plastic waste is recycled.  Much of this plastic is durable single-use plastic, which never biodegrades and causes persistent pollution in nature, oceans, and waterways.  Today, disposable packaging makes up about 40 percent of all plastic products manufactured.