Community-based care that helps low-income New Yorkers can’t disappear

Like many New Yorkers, “Emma” immigrated to the United States to seek a better life. As someone living with HIV, one of the first things she needed was health care, but she didn’t know where to start. Thankfully she founded Alliance for Positive Change, a nonprofit that offers community-based care management as part of New York State’s “Health Home” program.

The Health Home model of care management helps New Yorkers with low incomes and complex health conditions develop an individualized and comprehensive plan of care, navigate health systems, and address social determinants of health. With her Health Home care manager

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Nurse Blake coming to The Weidner for his Shock Advised Comedy Tour

Comedian and TikTok star Nurse Blake is bringing his Shock Advised Tour to The Weidner on Oct.  28.

GREEN BAY – Health care workers, this one is for you.

Comedian Nurse Blake, the registered nurse whose social media videos have garnered him more than 3.5 million followers, is bringing his Shock Advised Comedy Tour to The Weidner at 8 pm Oct. 28.

The 100-city North American tour kicks off in July in Alaska and wraps up in December in Hawaii. It follows his popular PTO Comedy Tour in 2022.

Nurse Blake, whose real name is Blake Lynch, first started posting comedy videos aimed at fellow health care workers as a way to cope with the stress of his

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Contract awarded for the New South Niagara Hospital Capital Project – Niagara Health News, Updates & Publications | Niagara Health System

Contract awarded for the New South Niagara Hospital Capital Project

Niagara Health (NH) and Infrastructure Ontario (IO) have reached another key milestone in the development of the New South Niagara Hospital Capital Project that will transform how care is delivered in the region.

Today, Tuesday, Feb. 21, NH and IO announced that EllisDon Infrastructure Healthcare (EDIH) has been awarded a fixed-price contract of approximately $3.6 billion to design, build, finance and maintain the new South Niagara Hospital. The contract reflects the payments made during construction, the substantial completion payment and the monthly service payments before inflation adjustments.

EDIH will soon begin site work on the property, with construction planned to

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

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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OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia

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First Nations groups upset with exclusion from health-care funding talks

First Nations groups are criticizing their exclusion from an upcoming meeting between federal, provincial and territorial governments aiming to reach a funding deal to improve the country’s ailing health-care system.

The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) in Saskatchewan said in a Thursday news release both it and the national Assembly of First Nations (AFN) are “dismayed” by the snub.

“Our people and their government were here before the provincial borders were even formed,” said FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron in the release.

“There is no reconciliation for First Nations when we continue to be excluded from these crucial discussions and

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Poor health care experiences lead caregivers to self-medicate, study shows

Poor healthcare experiences lead caregivers to self-medicate, study shows

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Caregivers need care, too. And now, researchers from Japan have found that their experience with health care professionals while caring for someone else affects their own health care choices.

In a study published recently in Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacyresearchers from the University of Tsukuba found that caregivers are more likely to take personal care into their own hands, by self-medicating, especially when their interactions with professionals are less positive.

The research team examined family caregivers’ self-medication habits and statistically paired them with the results of a questionnaire on their experiences with interprofessional health care.

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