Called a PASS kit, first-year students at the University of Waterloo will receive a package which includes a squeezable stress star, ear plugs, a sleeping mask, a pack of gum and a deck of 25 flash cards…
Health in the News
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- NBHC Engagement
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To implement the plan, the government will set up a taskforce called the National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group. The 10 measures in the plan include rolling out refreshed mental…
- NBHC Sustainability
Ontario Psychiatrists says that access to mental health services is being severely impacted by a shortage of psychiatrists. Its…
- NBHC Population Health
The study (sub. req.) concludes people who exercise report having 1.5 fewer days of poor mental health a month compared to people who do not…
- NBHC News
In this commentary, Daryl Wilson, former auditor general for New Brunswick from 1997 to 2005, provides examples of how performance measurement could be established, by sector, by the provincial government in its throne speech. Wilson cites survey…
- NBHC Engagement
The Dublin-based company’s Inner Circle patient engagement program uses gamification principles to encourage behaviour changes. The focus is on increasing so-called Time in Range, which is the…
- NBHC News
Times & Transcript columnist Norbert Cunningham expects that healthcare will once again be one of three dominant issues as the provincial election nears, alongside the economy and education. He says all 11 provincial elections since 1972 have…
- NBHC Population Health
A study in CMAJ suggests mortality rates spike when patients with a hip fracture wait longer than two days for surgery. Eighty-seven percent of people in that situation undergo a procedure…
- NBHC Care Experience
The director of health systems analysis and emerging issues at CIHI notes it's impossible to get good data on how prevalent pressure ulcers (bedsores) obtained in hospital or in long-term care. She explains that figures are most complete from…
- NBHC Care Experience
America's Essential Hospitals will undertake a three-phase research project aimed at improving patients' trust in their providers. The goal of the initiative is to build guidelines and policies that hospitals can use to boost patient trust,…
- NBHC Care Experience
More and more healthcare providers are investing in data analytics for research, to gain insight into their business and clinical operations and improve patient care and population health efforts. South Dakota-based Sanford Health, a 44-hospital…
- NBHC Care Experience
Infoway’s report provides a picture of attitudes toward digital health services. It shows more people want access these services and points to a gap between this desire and their ability to access services online. The report shows 73% don’t have…
- NBHC Population Health
A Statistics Canada study found the majority of Canadian seniors are more satisfied with their lives than other age groups. On a scale from one to 10, the…
- NBHC Care Experience
In a CMAJ commentary (sub. req.), two Toronto doctors argued patient portals should be universally available as part of patient care across Canada. The records patients access through portals…
- NBHC Engagement
A Horizon client was inspired to create the Healing Books Project because of the support she found in self-help and therapeutic books while in treatment for PTSD. The…
- NBHC Care Experience
The Bonnyville Health Centre was recognized by AHS with the President’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement and Quality Improvement for implementing the Commitment to Comfort Project. The…