News releases from Office of Healthcare Professionals Recruitment (Page 1)

The village commission of Lawrencetown, Annapolis County, has built a new, modern healthcare facility with donations and volunteer labour.

Two western Nova Scotia communities will use funding from the Province to promote their unique advantages to doctors and nurses looking to make a move.

Nova Scotia needs a diverse healthcare workforce to make healthcare supportive and equitable for everyone. Four groups working to recruit diverse healthcare providers from within their communities are getting help from the Office of Healthcare Professionals Recruitment.

A doctor-led group in Pictou County is getting support from the Province to help increase their own numbers.

Health and wellness organization Tajikeimik will receive funding from the Province to help recruit Indigenous healthcare workers.

A new marketing campaign that showcases Truro and the surrounding area to doctors looking for a new place to practise will be launched soon.

Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse, which works to ensure Acadian and francophone Nova Scotians receive safe, reliable healthcare, is getting funding from the Province to help attract and recruit bilingual mental health professionals.

Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse, qui œuvre pour assurer à la communauté acadienne et francophone de la Nouvelle-Écosse des soins de santé sûrs et fiables, obtient du financement de la Province pour attirer et recruter des professionnels de la santé mentale bilingues.

Community groups on the Eastern Shore will work together, each with a different focus, to recruit and retain healthcare workers using funding from the Office of Healthcare Professionals Recruitment.

The Province is supporting work to recruit and retain healthcare professionals in Antigonish through the Community Navigation and Physicians Retention Services Association.

The Province is supporting a group that is working to bring healthcare professionals to Lunenburg and Queens counties and keep the providers already there.

A Lunenburg County group is receiving support from the Province to recruit and retain healthcare professionals.

New funding from the Government of Nova Scotia will help recruit and retain healthcare professionals for the people of Yarmouth.

Patients and their families who live in Shelburne will benefit from new tools the community will have to recruit and retain healthcare workers thanks to a new investment from the Government of Nova Scotia.

The Province is supporting the Municipality of the County of Richmond, the Town of Port Hawkesbury and community groups in the area as they work to recruit and retain healthcare professionals.

The Province is supporting work to recruit and retain healthcare professionals in Inverness.

Two municipalities and a community group in Cumberland County will receive provincial funding to help bring more healthcare professionals to their communities and support those already living and working there.

Two groups in the Annapolis Valley will get support to recruit doctors and other healthcare professionals and retain those who already live and work in their communities.

The Province is supporting two groups working to bring healthcare professionals to Cape Breton Regional Municipality and keep the professionals already there.

More continuing care assistants will soon be moving to Nova Scotia to work, the result of a recent recruiting trip to Kenya.