health care logistics

Staff shortages kept operating rooms at High Prairie hospital closed for years

Violin10/07/2023 60 Views

When the $228-million regional hospital in High Prairie, Alta., opened in 2017, the provincial government hailed it as a state-of-the-art facility that would improve the lives of patients in the community.

But six years later, the operating rooms are empty.

According to the Alberta government, the High Prairie Health Complex surgical program has been on pause since 2020.

That leaves the northwest Alberta region of 15,000 people — including several First Nations and Métis Settlements — with a minimum 115-kilometer journey for emergency surgery or to deliver a baby in hospital.

The gap in health care around High Prairie, about

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Health Care

Saturday’s letters: No tangible improvements in health care

Violin04/07/2023 36 Views

I noted in a recent edition of the Edmonton Journal that our minister of Health is “pleased by the progress made under Dr. Cowell’s leadership in the immediate areas of action he was tasked with. We already have tangible results that Albertans can see.”

In the six months sinceDr. Cowell has been in charge, my family physician has left his practice and there are no doctors in our community who are accepting new patients. I have spent considerable effort trying to find a family physician without
success. This past week, I took a person who was experiencing a

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Health Care

Carnivore Bagels – Maria Mind Body Health

Violin20/06/2023 36 Views

Who wants to come over for Carnivore Bagels?

My easy recipe for Carnivore Bagels will blow your mind!

HOW TO MAKE CARNIVORE BAGELS

To make my Carnivore Bagels, I used Further Food Gelatin!

Further Food gelatin and collagen peptides are both excellent sources of collagen. Both their Collagen & Gelatin are sourced from the highest quality, grass-fed, pasture-raised, hormone-free, and antibiotic free bovine collagen.

The benefits of collagen and gelatin are amazing! Just eating my delicious Carnivore Bagels helps support skin elasticity & hydration, longer hair & nails, stronger bones & joints, faster recovery between workouts, increased flexibility, improved digestion,

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Indigenous leaders not impressed with the Quebec healthcare bill

Violin17/06/2023 50 Views

A group supporting the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal (NWSM) met in Montreal’s Mont Royal Park for a spirit walk to raise funds and build reconciliation in the city.

The goal is to raise money for a retreat for women and children at the shelter.

“It’s a spiritual retreat with ceremonies and different elders and facilitators who come and offer tools. Nobody goes to a shelter because they want to,” said shelter executive director Nakuset.

This year’s walk coincides with Indigenous leaders’ reaction to the Quebec government’s Bill 32 (Loi instaurant l’approche de sécurisation culturelle au sein du réseau de

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Health Care

Alberta urged to create chief nursing officer position to help fix health system

Violin09/06/2023 46 Views

As Alberta looks to relieve pressure on its stressed health system, nurses are calling on the freshly re-elected provincial government to bring in a chief nursing officer to work alongside its chief medical officer of health.

The position was reinstated at the federal level last year, a decade after it was eliminated.

Nurses want Alberta to follow suit.

“It’s so important we have that nursing voice in decision making,” said Kathy Howe, executive director of the Alberta Association of Nurses.

“[This is] someone that the government can rely on for accurate information, someone who can advocate for nursing and someone

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Protein Sparing Bread Bruschetta – Maria Mind Body Health

Violin04/06/2023 46 Views

It warms my heart to see all of you enjoying my protein sparing bread! I have been eating it for over 15 years and to see it gets the attention now is really special to me!

I have made my protein sparing bread into so many different recipes over the past decade and making it into Protein Sparing Bread Bruschetta is really delicious and easy!

HOW TO MAKE PROTEIN SPARING BREAD BRUSCHETTA

To make my Protein Sparing Bread Bruschetta, I used Further Food Gelatin!

Further Food gelatin and collagen peptides are both excellent sources of collagen. Both their Collagen &

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4 min read

Health Care

To boost health care teams’ effectiveness, integrate organizational sciences research with tech development

Violin31/05/2023 98 Views

doctors — Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain

Health care organizations today are caring for patients with increasingly complex needs and leveraging larger teams that include clinicians with diverse and specialized expertise. At the same time, high turnover and labor shortages mean that facilities often employ a more temporary and mobile workforce.

In a new commentary, researchers point out that, as a result, “the structure of health care teams often defies decades of wisdom from team-design research about the conditions that support the best possible performance.”

The article was written by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Johns Hopkins University, Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s

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Health Care

Mills: My experience with the pain of private health care

Violin29/05/2023 43 Views

I faced detailed hospital bills itemized by a piece of gauze, and was immediately directed to the finance desk upon arrival at the ER regardless of how sick I was.

Published May 18, 2023 • Last updated May 18, 2023 • 5 minute read

Jessica Mills says her gratitude to the public-health system has only grown with time and experience. Photo by Jean Levac /Postmedia

As I sit perched on my hospital bed, recovering from a post-surgical infection, pain managed by a magical concoction of drugs, I can’t help but think about

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