Moose Deer Point expanding healthcare services – Anishinabek News

June 17, 2025

MOOSE DEER POINT — Moose Deer Point is looking forward to the completion of a palliative care room in the community’s Health Centre for citizens in the community. Moose Deer Point citizens had suggested that it would be more comfortable to stay in the community for palliative care during a community information session.

“Currently, we have to send them to the West Parry Sound (Health Centre), and it made it very difficult for family members to access them,” says Lorraine Richard, band administrator at Moose Deer Point. “We thought if we could take available space that we had and just renovate it and accommodate a palliative care room here, then the community member could stay here and their family could access them. So it would cut down on the transportation barrier that we do have back here.”

The West Parry Sound Health Centre is located about 61 kilometres north of Moose Deer Point. It has five palliative care beds that offer specialized care to patients with terminal illnesses.

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