UVic researchers found the homeless they followed during the study only received the best healthcare available when they had reached the end of their lives…
NBHC Population Health
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 Population Health
Life expectancy in Canada could decrease for the same reason it's falling in the U.S., says (sub. req.) a researcher from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Life expectancy stateside…
- NBHC News
The Telegraph Journal believes a physician shortage in rural parts of the province is creating a barrier to healthcare access and says it found rural communities have to offer financial incentives, beyond a good salary, to attract doctors. The…
- NBHC Care Experience
Mass.-based MITRE Corporation is developing a digital Patient Toolkit, which lets patients digitally record symptoms, treatments and…
- NBHC Sustainability
ICES and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health believe over one-third of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are high-cost healthcare patients, defined as those who rank in the top 10% of healthcare spending. The…
- NBHC Sustainability
There are about 15 licensed nurse practitioners that are unable to work in the province because there are no positions available for them. One of these nurses is now considering a move to Nova Scotia because she can't find work. The Nurse…
- NBHC Care Experience
Bill-21, an Act to Protect Patients, could see doctors and other providers face automatic licence suspensions for sexually abusing patients. The bill is similar to…
- NBHC Care Experience
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…
- 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…
- NBHC Care Experience
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…
- NBHC Care Experience
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,…
- NBHC Care Experience
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…
- NBHC Care Experience
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…