Staff at the Rotterdam Eye Hospital improved patient care and raised staff morale using only 10 minutes a day and a special deck of cards. Hospital managers developed a patient-safety card game to encourage coworkers to work together and to…
Health in the News
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- NBHC Care Experience
- NBHC Population Health
This Rutgers study supports the association between education and monetary investments in health. It found parents educated beyond high school invest more in family…
- NBHC Population Health
A survey conducted by Health Canada suggests 15% of Canadians aged 15 and up smoked cigarettes last year, an increase from 2016'…
- NBHC Care Experience
An early warning system that measures six vital signs has been used to dramatically reduce the incidences of Code Blues at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS). Code Blues used to sound daily at HHS, but since the…
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The clinic is one of the Saskatchewan Health Authority’s new strategies to reduce pressure on emergency rooms. The Community Health Centre will be used to keep elderly people with complicated healthcare needs out of hospital. It will open in a…
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Nova Scotia will implement the interRAI system, an electronic tool that enables assessments of long-term care residents. With the technology, staff will identify health issues,…
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Fifteen homes in the Victoria, B.C., area will be outfitted with technology designed to keep seniors with early-stage memory loss or dementia in their homes longer. The pilot project called Ease-e-Home uses Amazon Echo's digital assistant Alexa…
- NBHC Sustainability
Bidders on a provincewide electronic health record (EHR) system in Nova Scotia allege the province mishandled the health services contract. The planned purchase of the EHR system is expected to cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and the…
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Federal rules taking effect Nov. 1 will require all doctors and nurse practitioners to report how many patients are forced to leave Covenant Health's health facilities for medical-assistance-in-dying (MAiD) assessments. An Alberta woman was…
- NBHC Sustainability
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister sent updated mandated letters to all cabinet ministers, spelling out a vision for the departments. The letter sent…
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Regina's The Gardens Community Health Centre has become the first centre of its kind in the province to take a team-based approach to care. The provider team includes physicians, nurses, paramedics, therapists, a pharmacist and a nutritionist.…
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Protocol found to drastically reduce opioid use and leftover narcotics among post-operative patients
Called STOP Narcotics, the program was developed to reduce the amount of painkillers patients are given following common operations. Western University found the…
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Nova Scotia is said to be a Canadian leader in hospital room service. QEII Health Sciences Centre’s Halifax Infirmary is working on a room service food model that will have hot, fresh food prepared and delivered on demand via on-unit kitchens.…
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The College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Mental Health Commission of Canada developed a…
- NBHC Engagement
The campaign, developed through consultation with students at two high schools, encourages youth to seek medical help if they think they've been sexually assaulted. It uses the hashtag…
- NBHC Care Experience
The research explains that since more and more patients are released the same day as their operations, they lose attention and education provided by nurses. That loss in post-operative oversight increased the chance they’ll experience concerns or…