A B.C.-based patient advocate spent the last three years speaking about the importance of taking one's health into their owns hands. This follows years of treatment and the discovery of a brain tumour.
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Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's preliminary year-end monthly wait-times report for 2017-18 revealed ER wait times were down 16% compared to the previous year, however, median ER wait times climbed in March for the fifth straight month since…
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L'appareil, d’une valeur de $34,000, a été installé au Service d’urgence de l’établissement pour desservir les communautés de Saint-Quentin, de Kedgwick et des environs. L’appareil apporte à l’établissement une technologie qui surpasse celle…
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The national #EndPJparalysis campaign aims to get patients out of bed, dressed in their own clothes and moving around in order to speed up their recovery. It also challenges all those who care for…
- NBHC Sustainability
The province is investing $2.1 million to create more memory care beds and assist existing care homes. The first of three per diem increases will raise rates to $135 from $127.42 per resident. The increase will be retroactive to Apr. 1 and will…
- NBHC Sustainability
The government plans to hire 25 new medical specialists to fill vacancies, address shortages and tackle workload issues. The additions will include a cardiologist in Saint John and the rest will be up to regional health authorities to decide on…
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The Canadian Institute of Health Information finds wait times for joint replacement and cataract surgeries in New Brunswick have…
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During a hospital stay, the ClinicAll app enables the use of TV, Internet, and to call up all hospital information such as treatment appointments,…
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Newfoundland and Labrador leads Canada and the U.S. for antibiotics overuse. The province’s health minister is now warning that drug resistance could bring a wave of deaths by infection. John Haggie warns overuse and over-prescribing (as a global…
- NBHC Population Health
French researchers found that mental illnesses ranked second among the causes of disability-adjusted life-years for youths ages five to 14 in the Americas and Europe in 2015, up from third place in 2000. The…
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The leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick and the MLA for Fredericton-South, David Coon, believes city hospitals are operating over capacity with inadequate staffing and blames this on the use of a fiscally-driven healthcare system, rather…
- NBHC Engagement
New Brunswick introduced a limited colon cancer screening program four years ago to find the disease in people who had no family or personal colon cancer history, helping people who might overlook the risks. Cancer specialists say the results…
- NBHC Engagement
The website's designed to help men decide if they should get a prostate exam. It also aims to address inequities in testing rates across ethnic groups and to gather information on inconsistencies across…
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The Prince Edward Island government is projecting a $1.5-million surplus for the 2018-19 fiscal year. The highlight of the $1.7-billion fiscal plan is a 4.8% increase in…
- NBHC Population Health
The study (for purchase) focuses on one county in Ohio were researchers collected data from all pediatric hospitalizations. They paired pediatric patients with a census…
- NBHC Sustainability
A P.E.I. doctor from the Island’s Kings County Memorial Hospital says the past months have seen two trends: increased issues in managing the demand in the ER and increased aggression towards staff because of wait times. The physician says that…