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

Violin31/05/2023 117 Views

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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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Mills: My experience with the pain of private health care

Violin29/05/2023 57 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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Peterborough Regional Health Center receives $3.4M for after-hours doctors work – Peterborough

Violin27/05/2023 133 Views

The Ontario government is providing more than $3.4 million to the hospital in Peterborough to support on-call funding for doctors working after hours.

On Friday, Peterborough-Kawartha MPP Dave Smith announced the province is providing $3,471,232 to the Peterborough Regional Health Center (PRHC) for on-call support for physicians.

Smith says the funding follows through on past agreements between the Ontario Ministry of Health and the Ontario Medical Association to increase dedicated funding for physicians on-call at nearly 100 acute-care hospitals.

“This funding increase will help PRHC by increasing the number of physicians available

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Manitoba joins feds to fund HVAC upgrades for schools and health-care facilities – Winnipeg

Violin26/05/2023 54 Views

A joint effort between the government of Canada and the province will provide millions to upgrade ventilation, heating and cooling or “HVAC” equipment in Manitoban schools and health-care facilities.

Totalling $13.1 million, the funding targets 32 institutions, including the Health Sciences Center in Winnipeg, the Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre, and the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba in Brandon. As stated in a Friday press release, the province says upgrades will be made to “keep the air fresh and healthy” while ensuring that facilities can maintain the appropriate temperature conditions throughout all seasons.

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Family medicine for all: Community health centers serve their neighbors, but capacity issues remain

Violin22/05/2023 87 Views

White Coat Black Art26:30The secret to success at Community Health Centres

On any given day, the employees of the Centretown Community Health Center near downtown Ottawa saw a diverse range of patients, from the unhoused to seniors to families with young children who had struggled to find family doctors.

Similar to a school catchment area, the idea is that anyone who lives in the area — which includes the Glebe, Centretown and Old Ottawa South — is automatically able to qualify for the center’s services. It’s an attempt to patch the gaps in a province where over two

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Illinois health care program for noncitizens, including illegal immigrants, balloons to $1.1B

Violin21/05/2023 107 Views

An Illinois program to provide health care coverage to noncitizens, including illegal immigrants, will cost the state $1.1 billion for the upcoming fiscal year, officials said this week, an enormous increase from the $220 million initially earmarked for the benefit.

The health care program provides state-funded health care to immigrants age 42 and older who would otherwise qualify for Medicaid if they weren’t for their citizenship status. That includes those who are here legally on a green card for fewer than five years, and illegal immigrants. The state began providing Medicaid-like benefits to those 65 and over in 2020 and

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Downtown Winnipeg project to include health-care expansion

Violin14/05/2023 40 Views

WINNIPEG – A private developer announced plans Friday to turn a struggling shopping center in downtown Winnipeg into a large complex of health-care services, affordable housing and public green spaces, with a small number of retail stores.

True North Real Estate Development, the real estate arm of the company that owns the National Hockey League Winnipeg Jets, unveiled its designs as it continues to work to buy the Portage Place mall. The mall is currently owned by the Vancouver-based Peterson Group, while the surrounding area including a parkade has different owners.

“I will, again, not make the claim that this

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Health-care tower with new Pan Am clinic part of the radical makeover slated for Portage Place

Violin13/05/2023 53 Views

A 15-storey health-care tower with a primary-care clinic, an after-hours walk-in clinic and a satellite facility for the Pan Am Clinic are part of a roughly $550-million plan to redevelop downtown Winnipeg’s Portage Place mall.

True North Real Estate Development — which has an option to purchase the mall, the parkade below it and rights to build two new high-rise towers above it — is planning a radical makeover for the 36-year-old megaproject that would transform it into a downtown community campus.

“We can drill down to the kinds of programming we think makes sense for this city and for

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