Health Care

Health-care advocates urge BC to hire physician assistants to assist doctors

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A man originally from BC who is now a health-care worker in Halifax said BC needs to adopt physician assistants to assist doctors.

Gabriel Demone, who is a physician assistant with the Canadian Armed Forces based out of Halifax, said his daily role in assisting doctors is a big help in delivering timely medical services.

“If I were to encounter you as a patient, we would sit down and talk about what you brought into the clinic,” he said.

“We’re a force multiplier for the doctors.”

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New York state ends COVID mask mandate in health care facilities

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NEW YORK — Another chapter of the pandemic is drawing to a close. Masking in hospitals is no longer mandatory. Instead, the decision will be up to individual operators.

As we approach three years since the pandemic started, one of the last COVID-era mandates is finally ending.

Starting Sunday, masks and face coverings will no longer be required in health care facilities in New York.

“I am delighted that it is not mandatory, that it is optional,” said Peter Hayn of the Upper West Side.

“I don’t mind that they are lifted because I can keep myself safe,” added subway

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Healthy Valentine’s Day Gift – Maria Mind Body Health

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Valentine’s Day is coming!

Say what you will about Valentine’s Day, but I do love making it special. I get healthy gifts for all of my boys to make it special. It’s a day for love and I like to show my boys how much I love them.

HEALTHY GIFTS THAT “KEEP ON GIVING”

I love gifting the “Gift that Keeps Giving the All Year Long” as cousin Eddie would say! And a sauna blanket is the perfect gift to give to your loved one! Not only because every time they use it, they will think of your generosity, but

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NY lifts mask mandate for health care. What to know about hospitals, nursing homes, more

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New York is lifting its mask mandate for health care settings on Sunday, but some hospitals plan to keep requiring universal mask wearing in the near term as they finalize policies for the transition to a post-pandemic world.

The end of the state mask mandate will affect hospitals, nursing homes and other medical providers. Each facility will determine whether to require masks, state health officials said, noting the move follows Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance issued in September.

Several health systems on Friday announced visitors, workers and patients will continue to be required to wear masks in hospitals

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Canada’s new spending to be targeted on health care, clean tech

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The government’s responsibility not to pour ‘fuel on the flames of inflation, and force the Bank of Canada’s hand’

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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland in Ottawa. Photo by Blair Gable/Reuters files

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia

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Editorial Board Announced for 2023 – PHE America

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PHE America has announced its editorial board members for 2023. The Editorial Board is composed of professionals in higher education interested in serving as reviewers to offer writers constructive feedback in preparing their articles for publication. Editorial Board members serve both PHE America and Sport Coach America.

The six-member board includes Brian Sather, a professor at Eastern Oregon University; Editor-in-Chief, Pete Van Mullema professor at Lewis-Clark State College and director of Sport Coach America; Rory Weishaaran associate professor at Central Washington University; Jessica Savagean instructor at Lewis-Clark State College; Aubrey Shaw, an academic program advisor

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The Bay Health Foundation works to make health care services more accessible

Violin10/02/2023 40 Views

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – A local foundation is proving its commitment to the people of Bay County by continuing to make health care services more accessible to those who otherwise couldn’t afford them.

The Bay Health Foundation was formed more than a decade ago after Bay Medical leased the hospital to Ascension Sacred Heart. Since then, the board has been investing the money back into the community with more than $5 million in donations spread among a list of organizations.

On Thursday, the list grew at the 11th annual grant recipient luncheon. The foundation presented a $500,000 check to

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Collecting racial data in Manitoba hospitals will help ‘disrupt and destroy’ racism in health care: doctors

Violin09/02/2023 99 Views

Manitoba is launching a new system-wide expansion of race-based data collection in hospitals, building on efforts to track how different racial groups were disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.

Beginning this spring, the province will ask patients to self-declare their racial or ethnic background as part of the hospital admission process, making Manitoba the first Canadian jurisdiction to do so, according to the University of Manitoba.

“Black, Indigenous and racialized people actually receive significantly unequal care by race, and that is a reflection of how multi-level racism operates in our health-care system,” said Dr. Marcia Anderson, executive director of the Ongomiizwin Indigenous

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HEALTHY GIFTS THAT “KEEP ON GIVING”

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