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Monday, March 23, 2026

Hospital to Home helping patients recover at home and freeing up hospital beds

After three weeks in hospital recovering from a broken back, Marlene Keefe returned home in severe pain, using mobility aids and facing the reality of recovering alone.

Fiercely independent and hesitant to accept help, she wasn’t sure she wanted anyone coming into her home. That is, until she worked with her care team at Health Sciences North to enroll in the province’s Hospital to Home (H2H) program.

“I didn’t think it was for me,” she said. “I like to do things myself.”

Now, she says enrolling was one of the best decisions she made during her recovery. Marlene is one of hundreds of patients benefiting from Hospital to Home, a provincially supported transitional care program that helps patients who no longer require acute hospital care continue their recovery safely at home.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Thank you, Team HSN

To Our Valued Team Members,

On behalf of the Senior Management Team and our Board of Directors, I want to extend my deepest gratitude to all employees, medical staff, volunteers and learners for the extraordinary commitment you have demonstrated over the past several days. Your dedication to our patients, our community, and to each other has been nothing short of remarkable.

As I rounded through the organization on Monday, many of you shared the incredible efforts you made to get to work despite the challenges created by the storm. Your stories were inspiring—snowshoeing, snowmobiling, skiing, walking long distances, and carpooling with colleagues—each of you found a way to be here because you understood how important your presence is to the people we serve across Northeastern Ontario.