The app connects elders in his community with a driver who takes them to all kinds of healthcare appointments and offers translation support at appointments. Those behind the Madawaska Elder Initiative…
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A doctor opened the clinic in the Canterbury Community Centre near Meductic last spring, with the goal of offering care to people who needed quick access to a physician for minor ailments, routine screening and prescription refills. But within…
Alta.’s budget includes $305 million to support approximately 310,000 operating room procedures. Alberta Health estimates between 60,000 and 65,000 of these publicly funded procedures will be performed by privately-owned chartered surgical…
The New Brunswick Medical Society also says it wasn’t involved in developing the strategy. The strategy and action plan, which the Department of Health committed at least $10.3 million annually toward implementing, haven’t been made public. The…
Financial incentives to encourage more doctors to choose to practise in N.S. are now available in all areas of the province. Family physicians and specialists who want to establish full-time practices in the Central Zone can earn up to $75,000 in…
- NBHC Engagement
N.S. is partnering with Novo Nordisk Canada to create the Nova Scotia Lighthouse project, an initiative that’ll address childhood obesity and chronic disease in the province. The project will bring together healthcare, academic and economic…
The report shows 61% of people who died from substance-related toxicity had prior healthcare encounters for substance use disorder, yet engagement…
Canadians have low confidence their provincial governments will reduce ER wait times. Compared to Jan. 2023, a higher proportion would go to the U.S. to pay for more timely healthcare (+10 pts) or urgent care (+9 pts). Four in 10 believe…
Maternal obesity on its own and along with other risk factors, like diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking, substance use and chronic hypertension, was associated with an increased likelihood of fetal death. The risk of stillbirth in obese…
Canadians are twice as likely to expect the quality of healthcare that they and their family will have access to locally will worsen rather than improve in the next few years. British Columbians (32%) are significantly more likely to feel the…
The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction says healthcare costs related to substance use accounted for nearly 30% ($13.4 billion) of the overall costs of substance use in 2020. That amount included day surgeries, ER visits, inpatient…
B.C. established minimum nurse-to-patient ratios for different hospital settings and is investing $237 million to ensure they’re met. They include a minimum of one nurse for every four patients in adult medical and surgical units, 24 hours a day…
In addition, Horizon’s 46 community health centres will be modernized through the patient medical home model, which brings together physicians, NPs, physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals under one roof. Each clinic patient has an…
One year after a group of orthopedic surgeons began renting vacant operating rooms on Saturdays at an Ottawa hospital, the group is doubling the number of surgeries it performs there. The group already performed around 500 hip and knee surgeries…
The program provides province-wide access to counselling for loved ones of people who died by suicide or survived with significant injury or trauma. Services include referrals, counselling,…
- NBHC Engagement
The petition, calling on N.B. to get its own pediatric hospital, collected more than 400 signatures. Over the last fiscal year, more than 750 New Brunswick patients had inpatient stays at the IWK in Halifax. The NBMS echoes the call to improve…