Province provides $1.3 million for health and wellness hub

EAST FERRIS, ONT.—The Municipality of East Ferris, Ont. will be getting funding from the province to help build a health and wellness hub, which will create a space for health care practitioners to provide the community with better access to health care services.

The municipality will receive more than $1.3 million through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation, which will be used to build a large facility that will house a physician and provide additional space for other interested health practitioners, such as a chiropractor, optometrist and/or a midwife. The facility could also house a pharmacy.

“Maintaining and improving health services right here in our community is a priority for East Ferris,” said Pauline Rochefort, mayor of East Ferris, in a statement. “This funding will significantly reduce the financial impact that the project would otherwise have on our taxpayers and the municipality…We look forward to the official opening of the centre in the coming months once construction is complete.”