In Alta., any physician paid a recruitment incentive is placed in rural towns for an average of five years. Once these agreements lapse, many move to urban areas and this was among the reasons physicians left Lethbridge. The municipality partnered
Universities and family medicine residency programs are working to increase the number of available positions. Still, Canadian Resident Matching Services shows 268 family medicine residency positions remain unfilled across Canada after the first
There are versions of these programs in Canada but some experts say we need more of them to ease our own healthcare system's bottleneck. These virtual wards allow patients to get hospital-level care at home , helping speed up their recovery while
It’s part of a plan to increase the sharing of test results, such as lab results, with patients so they can be more involved in their ongoing care. The provincial patient portal, Health Gateway, will allow specialists and family doctors at hospitals
Build Back Better surveyed the population to explore how the pandemic affected four areas of health equity: housing access, food security, mental health and substance use. The early findings about housing and food security in the province indicate
This study suggests there are income-based disparities present even in countries with universal healthcare and robust social services. Researchers explored whether poorer outcomes observed in lower-income Americans relative to higher-income Americans
It's the first province to adopt minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in an effort to improve nurses’ working conditions and patient care. The model, based on nurse-to-patient ratios in Calif. and Australia, will allow nurses to spend more time
Syphilis made a global resurgence over the last five years and Canada's an outlier among wealthy nations in its rate of increase. The incidence of babies born with syphilis reached 26 per 100,000 live births in 2021, up from two in 2017, a 13-fold
The Women's Mobile Primary Care Program aims to deliver healthcare to women in a culturally appropriate manner. The health unit's van teams doctors, nurses and social workers with Indigenous knowledge keepers, elders and healers to provide care from
Healthcare leaders part of the Public Policy Forum are calling for major reforms related to how Canadians access the health system, including scaling up team-based primary care. The report lays out 10 steps policymakers must take to expand access to