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Please join us as we officially welcome Closing the Gap Healthcare to ParaMed, marking an exciting step forward in our mission to provide people with the care they need, wherever they call home.
ParaMed and Closing the Gap share the same commitment to delivering high-quality, integrated home care to our patients and clients. Closing the Gap brings outstanding expertise in allied health care, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy and...

When you think of physiotherapy, you might picture athletes recovering from injury or post-surgical patients regaining strength. But for one physiotherapist, the most transformative work happens in a quieter place: long-term care.
After five years in fast-paced private clinics, treating athletes and clients recovering from accidents or injuries, Paras never imagined a future in long-term care. That changed during the early days of the pandemic. With clinics closed and uncertainty...

Extendicare Maple View in Sault St. Marie, Ont., is among Extendicare long-term care homes that are holding local walks and events in support of the Alzheimer Society of Canada.
“This Walk is very important to me, not only as a team member supporting our home’s residents, but because my grandmother had Alzheimer's and was a resident here at Maple View,” says Brittany, who works with the home’s Accounts Payable and Receivable...

Each day in May, when the weather is on their side, team members and residents at Extendicare Port Hope, near Colborne, Ontario, gear up for a daily walk as part of a step challenge at their long-term care home to support the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada...