Arnprior Regional Health

11/14/2025

We’re proud to share that Dr. Pil Joo, one of our exceptional ARH physicians, is a co-author of a new article in Canadian Family Physician on anaplasmosis, a lesser-known but increasingly important tick-borne illness in Canada.

🦠 What is anaplasmosis?

Also known as human granulocytic anaplasmosis, this infection is carried by the same ticks that transmit Lyme disease. As tick populations expand with climate change, cases are rising across the country, including here in Ontario.

Why clinicians should pay attention:

➡️It often presents as a nonspecific fever (no obvious rash).
➡️Common lab clues include leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and mildly elevated liver enzymes.
➡️When patients present with fever of unknown origin, anaplasmosis should be part of the differential.

Early recognition and treatment can reduce complications, making awareness essential for primary care and hospital clinicians.

👏 We congratulate Dr. Joo for contributing to this important national clinical guidance and for helping improve awareness across the healthcare community.

🔗 Read the full article:
https://www.cfp.ca/content/71/10/623

11/03/2025

Last month residents of the Grove Home attended a Sens game. Lots of cheering and excitement!

10/31/2025

Join us in celebrating these two phenomenal staff. We are lucky to have these two on our team.

The Real Heroes Don’t Wear Capes

Some heroes don’t wear capes — they wear scrubs and smiles! 💚

This Halloween, we’re celebrating two of our amazing Arnprior Regional Health staff members, Micheline H. and Claire M., who recently received Angel Pins for their kindness, compassion, and dedication to patients.

They remind us that true heroes walk among us every day — caring for others and making a difference close to home.

Want to recognize a healthcare hero of your own?

Make a donation in honour of an ARH staff member here:
👉 https://wl.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E920314QE&id=21

Wishing everyone a safe and spook-tacular Halloween! 🎃

10/29/2025

If you are "trick or treating" on Halloween night, come by The Grove Home from 6:00 - 6:45pm to get some treats! The residents will be handing out treats and would love to see everyone's costumes.

10/20/2025

Last Wednesday, ARH staff, residents, and clients donned their best pink outfits in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

If you are between the ages of 40 and 74, you can book a screening mammogram today - no referral required! All you need is your health card.

Call today 613-623-7962 x 359

10/14/2025

Please be advised that beginning today and continuing through the end of the week, access to the back parking lot of the Hospital will be temporarily modified due to paving and construction work.

☀️Between 7:30 AM and 6:00 PM daily

Entry and exit must be made via the North entrance (ramp to the Emergency Department).
Flag personnel will be on-site

🌙 Between 6:00 PM and 7:30 AM

Vehicles may exit the back lot using the original exit lane located between the Primary Health Care Centre and the separate school yard fence.

This temporary traffic plan will remain in effect for the rest of the week. A follow-up notice will be issued once this phase of work is complete.

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we continue to enhance our exterior property.

10/14/2025

This week we celebrate our Assisted Living staff! We are lucky to have such incredible individuals serving our community.

10/06/2025

This week we celebrate Sonography Week!

Our team at ARH is dedicated, compassionate, and knowledgeable - we are lucky to have them!

09/30/2025

Our deepest thanks to the Circle of Turtle Lodge for leading us in a smudging ceremony and sacred to***co vigil at both the Grove Home and the Hospital in honour of the children who never returned home from residential schools, and in support of Survivors, their families, and communities.

Your guidance created a space for reflection, healing, and remembrance. Together, we continue to walk the path of truth and reconciliation. 🕯️🧡

09/25/2025

ARH invites members of the community to a vigil - including a smudging ceremony and to***co offering - hosted by the Circle of Turtle Lodge to honour the children who never returned home from residential schools, as well as Survivors, their families, and communities.

🔶 September 29, 2025 🔶
11:00 am: The Grove Home Courtyard
1:00pm: The Hospital (courtyard by Entrance D)

For more than a century, residential schools forcibly separated over 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children from their families and communities. Many children were denied food, care, and safety. They were stripped of language, culture, and identity. Some never made it home.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has since confirmed what Survivors have long told us: that the residential school system was an act of cultural genocide, leaving a legacy of trauma that continues to affect generations.

It is only through listening, learning, and acknowledging this painful history that we can walk the path of reconciliation together. This vigil is an opportunity for reflection, solidarity, and remembrance.

We encourage everyone to wear orange and attend as we pause to remember, reflect, and recommit to creating a future rooted in respect, healing, and reconciliation.

Thank you for joining us in this important moment of remembrance.

09/12/2025

In mid-October ARH will launch a modernized parking system designed to make parking easier, more reliable, and more secure for patients, visitors, and staff.

➡️Read more: https://www.arnpriorregionalhealth.ca/new-parking-infrastructure-rates/

09/12/2025

This week the Hospital hosted a Toilet Paper Cake contest in celebration of EVS week. Congratulations to the Laundry team for their winning entry! (Especially the team's creative genius, Thyan, not pictured.)