An added $475,000 is flowing from the province to the North Bay Regional Health Centre to help expand access for critical mental health and addictions supports during COVID-19.
MPP Vic Fedeli announced the funding for two community support programs:
Day/Evening Care (Day Treatment) for Addictions/Substance Use Treatment – $320,000
Nurse Practitioners for Detox Services (Residential WMS) – $155,000
“This is an important investment for North Bay. It will make it easier for people to find and access high-quality mental health and addictions services when and where they need them,” said Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli. “We’re working with our partners to provide long-term stability and investments in critical services to improve and modernize the system and close urgent gaps in care,” added Fedeli.
“We made a promise to the people of Ontario to address the growing frustration with capacity issues within our mental health and addictions system,” said Associate Minister Tibollo. “Despite the additional challenges facing Ontarians during this outbreak, we are focused on increasing capacity and addressing wait times for services, so that Ontarians can get quality care and improve their quality of life.”
To enable Roadmap to Wellness, Ontario is investing $3.8 billion over 10 years to create new services and expand programs.
The province has started to fill urgent gaps in care as identified by system partners.
This year’s $176 million increase builds on the $174 million the government invested last year in more funding for mental health and addictions programs, bringing new base investments across the sector since 2019-20 to a total of more than $350 million.

(file photo by station staff)

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