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NS invests $17 million into 60 primary health-care clinics – Halifax

Violin17/05/2023 72 Views

An investment of $17 million toward 60 new and strengthened health clinics across Nova Scotia is welcome news this National Nurses Week.

“As gifts go, a new clinic for Eastern Passage Family Practice and a new nurse practitioner is going to be pretty hard to top,” said nurse practitioner Erin Sarrazin.

Before now, she was the only nurse practitioner serving Eastern Passage and is glad to be expanding her team of one through these investments.

“Burnout is real, and it’s just really nice to have a colleague,” Sarrazin said. “Somebody you can rely on day to day and sort of

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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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These migrant workers say they need better health-care access and language supports

Violin04/05/2023 51 Views

Some southwestern Ontario migrant workers, such as Neil Baldo, want to see more support available for workers from the Philippines.

“We don’t have much representation as compared to other groups like the Latino group,” he said.

Baldo made known his feelings about the lack of support at the Migrant Worker Community Program’s (MWCP) health and information fair in Leamington, Ont.

One of the attendees at the fair was the Consulate of Mexico in Leamington.

Baldo says because of the large Latino community there are not as many services tailored to Filipino workers.

“Our group here is growing, but I hope

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No fines issued by hospitals under Ontario’s new long-term care law: province, OHA

Violin01/05/2023 49 Views

No one has been fined in Ontario so far under a new law that can require patients to pay a daily $400 penalty if they refuse to move from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing, the province and its hospitals say.

But families and advocates argue the threat posed by the law is pushing patients into nursing homes they wouldn’t otherwise choose.

The law, which went into effect in September, can move discharged patients into nursing homes they did not consent to. Patients in southern Ontario can be moved to homes up to 70 kilometers

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Over half of Manitoba health-care workers have considered quitting: report

Violin27/04/2023 51 Views

More health-care workers in Manitoba are dealing with burnout and thinking of quitting than elsewhere in Canada, according to a report commissioned by the provincial government.

The report, done by consulting firm Deloitte, was completed more than a year ago but was not made public until opposition politicians obtained a copy and released it to the media this week.

The report says two-thirds of health-care staff are experiencing burnout. More than half have seriously thought about looking for a new job — a number that jumps to 67 per cent when looking at nurses alone.

The report suggests these issues

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PER PERSON HEALTH CARE SPENDING REBOUNDED IN 2021, INCREASING BY 15%

Violin20/04/2023 66 Views

Data show a return to pre-2020 trends in medical service use and spending, out-of-pocket spending increased by $100 per person in 2021

WASHINGTON, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — A new report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) shows that health care spending and utilization rebounded to pre-pandemic levels in 2021 after declines in 2020 that occurred with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even as COVID continued through 2021, with hundreds of thousands of individuals hospitalized and otherwise affected, dramatic declines in use and spending that occurred in the early months of the pandemic appeared to have been

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Braid: Smith’s health-care guarantee subverts her basic convictions

Violin18/04/2023 63 Views

Premier Danielle Smith needs Albertans to believe she didn’t mean many things she said in the past. Her voluble history is a serious danger to the UCP in the coming election campaign.

The question will be whether voters believe what she says now, or what she said before. It’s a toss-up, frankly, because she was so specific and passionate about her earlier prescription for user-pay health care.

On Tuesday, the premier said: “The UCP is committed to all Albertans that under no circumstances will any Albertan ever have to pay out of pocket for access to

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Inflation outpaced by health care costs as top financial worry, Primerica survey shows

Violin16/04/2023 48 Views

Inflation is no longer Americans’ No. 1 concerns. Nowadays, it’s the price of health care that’s making Americans sweat.

Health care costs are the top concern among middle-income American households for the first time since 2021, outpacing inflation, according to a national survey from financial service provider Primerica. While more than half of the survey respondents said that they remained pessimistic about the economy as a whole, 20% expressed being “slightly more optimistic” about their personal finances compared to just 15% of respondents in the previous quarter.

“As the nation heads further into 2023, middle-income Americans are showing increasing confidence

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