Dr. Carole Mayer, a scientist at the Health Sciences North Research Institute, focuses on the psychological and social impact of cancer on patients. She helped to implement distress screening for cancer patients in 14 community hospitals in…
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- NBHC Care Experience
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The Alliance for Healthier Communities includes over 100 community-governed primary healthcare organizations in Ontario. These include community health centres, aboriginal health access centres, community…
- NBHC Engagement
Ontario’s Brockville Mental Health Centre opened a café run for, and by, the patients for the benefit of the forensic treatment patients and staff. The River Cafe's operated by patients who are part of the Vocational and Occupational Therapy…
- NBHC Population Health
Health systems and community stakeholders in some U.S. states are collaborating on initiatives to address social determinants of health. These health systems are finding that investing with community groups allows them to leverage those…
- NBHC Population Health
CIHI reports that from 2001 to 2017, death rates among women due to alcohol rose 26%, five times…
- NBHC Sustainability
The Manitoba government accepted the recommendation from a 2017 report and will designate paramedics as a regulated health profession. What that entails is that it…
- NBHC Care Experience
A study from The Conference Board of Canada expects the number of seniors who will access physiotherapy services to jump from 566,000 in 2014 to 1.5 million by 2035.…
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This review of the Personal Health Information Act by the province’s Department of Health and Wellness finds N.S. lags behind other provinces when it comes…
- NBHC Population Health
HealthLandscape is a U.S. company based on an interactive web atlas. It belongs to the American Academy of Family Physicians. It launched an atlas called the Community Vital Signs…
- NBHC Care Experience
A study of physician-patient communication and engagement found patients and doctors talked more about their goals for care when readied for such a conversation before an outpatient visit. The researchers also found an increase in patient-…
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Patients at the Downtown Walk-In Clinic in Charlottetown are using an app and paying five dollars if they want to book an appointment online. The fee’s collected by the online site and app developed by P.E.I. company…
- NBHC Engagement
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations’ (FSIN) suicide prevention strategy draws on previous efforts from Quebec, Nunavut and U.S. Indigenous…
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A hospital in Oliver, B.C., is testing a technology called MedHx to link its MEDITECH database with the province's prescription network, PharmaNet. The hospital says in the…
- NBHC Sustainability
The province introduced a benefit for people who provide informal care to help their loved ones remain independent. The budget includes $11.3 million for the benefits this year to help primary informal caregivers. The non-taxable, monthly benefit…
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Health hubs such as Veitch Physiotherapy and Wellness Centre and the Health and Performance Centre use buildings big enough to bring doctors…
- NBHC Population Health
A report into factors causing health…