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Community Care |
34 Cambridge St. S., 2nd floor |
Health and Support Services |
Lindsay Ontario K9V 3B8 |
City of Kawartha Lakes |
Phone: 705-324-7323 |
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Posted By DAVE FLAHERTY, LINDSAY POST REPORTER
With the impending arrival of two new family doctors, the City of Kawartha Lakes has inched closer to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's recommended number of 48 within the municipality.
Dr. David Klein and Dr. Michelle Snarr will join the Community Health Centre in Lindsay, raising the number to 34 full-time and two part-time family doctors here, according to Cindy Snider, recruitment and retention coordinator for Kawartha Lakes Health Care Initiative.
The additions resulted from a mix of reaching out on both
sides, she said.
"We heard Dr. Klein was moving to the area and approached
him, while Dr. Snarr responded to an advertisement we
placed," Snider said.
Dr. Klein recently retired to the area after 30 years of practice in southwestern Ontario. He will still practice on a part-time basis while also helping the nurse practitioner, Snider said.
Dr. Snarr has a number of years of family medicine experience in northern Ontario and recently was a hospitalist at Peterborough Regional Health Centre. She will practice at the health centre and have full privileges at Lindsay's Ross Memorial Hospital.
According to CEO of Community Care Health and Support Services Valmay Barkey, the centre is set to open in mid-November and will be temporarily located at 108 Angeline St. S. in Lindsay.
Dr. Klein and Dr. Snarr will both accept unattached patients from across the city. Barkey declined to give a specific patient intake number.
"We will determine that when the team comes together," she said.
Registration forms for unattached patients are available
at many locations, including the Community Care Health
Services office and hospital.
The arrival of the doctors is is extremely good news for the
area, Snider said.
"We are very pleased that more residents will be able to
have doctors now," she said.