The percentage of long-term care residents experiencing moderate daily pain or excruciating pain at any frequency within Northern Health is more than twice the national average.
While the national average in 2015/16 was 8.5 per cent, Northern Health sat at 21.2 per cent, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).
And while last year The Pines in Burns Lake reported 13.2
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