Located in the same building as the private Southern Alberta Institute of Urology, the Prostate Cancer Centre opened in Calgary to provide PSA testing and other…
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Health in the News
Note: These are summaries of information originally produced by external sources (media, press releases, government, etc.). All questions should be directed to the original news source listed.
- NBHC Care Experience
The QE II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax successfully put in kiosks in 2011. Now, Health P.E.I. is looking to implement self-serve admitting kiosks at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown and Prince County Hospital in Summerside.…
- NBHC Care Experience
Their Putting Patients at the Heart (PPATH) Program was awarded the Canadian College of Health Care Leaders, 3M Health Care Quality Team Award – Improvement Across a Health…
- NBHC Care Experience
The app, called SurgeCon, was developed by a RN and a doctor who work at Carbonear General Hospital's emergency department. The app is now used by all front-line staff at…
- NBHC Care Experience
Transfer of patients from the intensive care unit (ICU) to a general hospital ward is considered a high-risk transition in which breakdowns in communication, medical errors and adverse events resulting in readmission can occur. This Canadian…
- NBHC Care Experience
Revera believes market and researchers tend to overlook the diversity within the senior population. Its survey makes a case for the…
- NBHC Population Health
A report from Heart & Stroke finds women are disproportionately affected by stroke, with females one-third more likely to die from an event. Other…
- NBHC Care Experience
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 Care Experience
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…
- 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.…
- NBHC Care Experience
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…