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New Sask. Hospital tops fundraising goal following $1M donation
A $1 million donation is putting Saskatchewan's new psychiatric rehabilitation hospital over the top in its fundraising goal. Gordon and Jill Rawlinson, owners of Rawlco Radio, donated $1 million toda...
Feb 07, 2019 David Dekker (centre) poses with members of the Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford New Beginnings campaign on Feb. 7, 2019. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
$6M donation kicks off hospice fundraising campaign
A big donation has helped kick off a campaign to build a hospice in Saskatoon. The St. Paul's Hospital Foundation launched its Close to Home fundraising drive Wednesday. The campaign got a major push ...
Jan 31, 2019 Health Authority plans to announce Tuesday a plan to address overcrowding at St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon (650 CKOM)
Water leak causes flood at Children's Hospital
Construction on the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital suffered a setback this month. Parts of the facility flooded on Jan. 25 after a water line in one of the main floor bathrooms sprung a leak. Water ...
Jan 29, 2019 A surgical suite seen under construction at the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital in October 2017 (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
Sask. NHLer helps net life-saving donation for teen with leukemia
The NHL's St. Louis Blues put out a video this week showing how a program set up in honour of a Saskatchewan woman who died of leukemia has helped save a life. Mandi Schwartz died in 2011 at the age o...
Jan 25, 2019 Regan Brown, 18, of Alabama was linked up with a donor for a life-saving bone marrow transplant through a registry set up by the family of Saskatchewan NHL player Jaden Schwartz. (Regan Brown/Facebook)
FSIN calls for government action on opioid crisis
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is calling on both the provincial and federal governments for immediate action against the ongoing opioid crisis in Saskatchewan's First Nations c...
Jan 16, 2019 Chief Calvin Straightnose (right) speaks to reporters at the FSIN offices in Saskatoon on Jan. 15, 2019. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
Flu shot uptake an issue in poor areas: clinic manager
Despite the shocking news of three toddler deaths due to influenza in Saskatchewan this flu season, walk-in clinics in Saskatoon aren't seeing a spike in patients looking for a vaccination. Clinics ac...
Jan 11, 2019 The H1N1 flu virus. (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention)
Medical ketogenic formula shortage frustrates Saskatoon mom
A mother in Saskatoon is doing everything she can to ensure her daughter Jennica has the special ketogenic formula she needs. Michelle Linklater's 22-year-old daughter has autism and epilepsy. Accordi...
Jan 08, 2019 Michelle Linklater is trying to get answers on the shortage of KetoCal 4:1 formula that her daughter relies on. (KetoCal/Facebook)
Kamsack family looks forward to cancer-free Christmas
A Kamsack family is getting the best Christmas present of all this year: a clean bill of health for their daughter. Brittney Durell said her daughter Zarah Googe, 3, has been undergoing monthly chemot...
Dec 23, 2018 Zarah Googe, 3, will have her last treatment for leukemia in February 2019 after first being diagnosed in 2016. (Brittney Durell/Submitted)
Saskatoon boys honoured for saving grandmother
Saskatoon paramedics honoured two little boys Tuesday for their bravery in the face of a tough situation. Kian and Grayson Wu, 10 and 7, were getting set to watch a movie at their grandmother's house ...
Dec 04, 2018 Kian and Grayson Wu (centre left and right) and Patti Chatterson (centre) pose with paramedics and dispatchers during an awards ceremony on Dec. 4, 2018. (Bryn Levy/650 CKOM)
Group meets with premier over ovarian cancer doctors leaving
A group of people in Saskatchewan are taking it upon themselves to keep the care of ovarian cancer patients near the top of the premier's priorities. By the end of next summer, three of the four gynec...
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