health care

LETTER: Province shaking up health-care status quo: MPP

Violin26/02/2023 77 Views

The new plan will ‘provide Ontarians with a better, more convenient health-care experience closer to home,’ says Jill Dunlop

OrilliaMatters welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following is an open letter to the community from Simcoe North MPP Jill Dunlop.

When it comes to your health, the status quo isn’t working.

Ontarians deserve more than long wait times in emergency departments, delayed surgeries, and diagnostic procedures and care that are too far away.

For example, here at home, Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital delayed over

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Help Revise the National PE Standards – PHE America

Violin24/02/2023 100 Views

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School districts across the country rely on SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education in order to develop their own standards, frameworks and curricula.

As part of the ongoing standards revision process, SHAPE America’s National Physical Education Standards Task Force has tirelessly gathered research and best practices from education experts around the world, and has collected feedback from the HPE community. Based on the feedback from the first round of Public Review and Comment, SHAPE America, and the National Physical Education Standards Task Force have developed proposed Student Attributes and Draft Standards, which are now available

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Health care vaccine mandate remains as some push for an end

Violin20/02/2023 104 Views

LOWRY CITY, Mo. (AP) — At Truman Lake Manor in rural Missouri, every day begins the same way for every employee entering the nursing home’s doors — with a swab up the nose, a swirl of testing solution and a brief wait to see whether a thin red line appears indicating a positive COVID-19 case.

Only the healthy are allowed in to care for virus-free residents.

Despite those precautions, a coronavirus outbreak swept through the facility late last year. An inspector subsequently cited it for violating the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement for health care facilities.

Truman Lake Manor is

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‘Burned out’: Nurses join travel nursing agencies for more flexibility, higher pay

Violin19/02/2023 63 Views

As Nova Scotia grapples with a health-care system under strain, some nurses in the province are signing contracts with travel nursing agencies to work elsewhere in Canada.

Higher pay and more flexible schedules are two reasons early career nurses are leaving Nova Scotia hospitals, as Nova Scotia Health struggles to fill 1,024 vacant nursing positions and concerns about working conditions persist.

Some Nova Scotian travel nurses say there are no retention strategies in place to keep nurses here and alleviate staffing shortages. And there are no incentives for travel nurses to return to full-time staff positions, they say, because they

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

Violin14/02/2023 58 Views

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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Langley family decries long wait in hospital ER for toddler

His role is

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

Violin11/02/2023 114 Views

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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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Steve Scherer and Ismail Shakil

Published Feb 03, 2023 • 1 minute read

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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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Braid: The public scourging of Tyler Shandro

Violin01/02/2023 59 Views

The justice minister is paying the price for the UCP government’s original sin and his own flawed judgment

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Don Braid • Calgary Herald

Published January 27, 2023 • 3 minute read

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Then-health minister Tyler Shandro watches Premier Jason Kenney give a televised COVID-19 update in Edmonton on April 8, 2020. David Bloom/Postmedia

Justice Minister Tyler Shandro is paying the price for the UCP government’s original sin and his own flawed judgment.

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New medical school in NS a welcome move

Violin29/01/2023 49 Views

A day after Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston announced a second medical school for the province, people around Cape Breton are still celebrating.

Many feel it could be a game changer when it comes to health care services in the future.

“I think it’s a great announcement for Cape Breton and actually a great announcement for Nova Scotia, but especially Cape Breton,” said David MacKeigan, a member of the community group Bay It Forward.

MacKeigan’s group has attracted three doctors to the area over the past couple of years.

Pre-pandemic potential physicians would be taken on a tour of the

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