Manitobans shouldn\u2019t have to take a road trip to get life-saving health care. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve heard from many citizens after the Progressive Conservative government announced that some patients seeking hip, knee or spinal surgeries will have to travel to other provinces and, in some cases, across the border for treatment, far from home, family and supports.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
Manitobans shouldn’t have to take a road trip to get life-saving health care. That’s what I’ve heard from many citizens after the Progressive Conservative government announced that some patients seeking hip, knee or spinal surgeries will have to travel to other provinces and, in some cases, across the border for treatment, far from home, family and supports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":600003925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"education-subject":[],"media-literacy-topic":[],"post_topic":[],"content_type":[24],"class_list":["post-600003924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-correspondents","category-west"],"acf":{"short_title":"","seo_title":"","deck":"","story_tag":"","byline":"Nahanni Fontaine","updates":null},"apple_news_notices":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/correspondents\/2023\/01\/25\/meeting-health-care-needs-here-at-home","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Meeting health-care needs here at home","url":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/correspondents\/2023\/01\/25\/meeting-health-care-needs-here-at-home","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/correspondents\/2023\/01\/25\/meeting-health-care-needs-here-at-home"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/1079368_web1_Fontaine-012523.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/01\/1079368_web1_Fontaine-012523.jpg"},"articleSection":"Community Correspondents","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"laurieb"}],"creator":["laurieb"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Our Communities","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2023-01-25T08:00:08Z","datePublished":"2023-01-25T08:00:08Z","dateModified":"2023-03-08T00:19:27Z"},"rendered":"