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AHS administrator reports shorter health-care wait times after 90 days in role

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Alberta Health Services has reduced wait times for surgeries and EMS services, according to official administrator Dr. John Cowell’s 90-day progress report released Monday.

The report, the first released by Cowell since the launch of the Health Care Action Plan on Nov. 17, highlights actions that have been taken and others that are in progress.

Premier Danielle Smith said the report showed her that the system is not on the brink of collapse like she was told when she took office in October.

“The system is not in crisis. It’s not going to collapse,” Smith said. “We’re seeing the numbers

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Private medical clinic opens in Halifax

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It hasn’t officially seen any patients yet, but Monday was the first day open for Halifax’s new private medical clinic, called Bluenose Health Primary Care Clinic.

With four exam rooms, the nurse practitioner in charge of the primary care facility on Young Street says the phones have already been busy.

“There has been a lot of interest, we have a lot of people who want to sign up,” says Lori Anne Peckford.

The ongoing debate over whether privatization should fill gaps in public health care means Peckford is aware of the many questions and concerns Maritimers may have about the

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Help Revise the National PE Standards – PHE America

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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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Ontario home-care orgs ask for help before health-care reforms

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Hundreds of millions of dollars are urgently needed to stabilize the home-care workforce in Ontario, the association representing organizations providing care said as it urged the province to speed up the delivery of promised funds.

The province pledged in last year’s budget to spend $1-billion for better home care over three years.

While some of that funding has flowed to organizations, Home Care Ontario has asked the province to move faster to send an outstanding $880 million to the sector.

“We aren’t doing enough to shore up the health-care system outside the hospitals,” said Sue VanderBent, CEO of Home Care

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For $30/month, Ontario doctors offer rapid access to nurse practitioners

sarah22/02/2023 21 Views

Some doctors in Ontario are offering their patients the option of extra health care, at a price: seven-day a week rapid access to appointments with a nurse practitioner, for a fee of around $30 a month.

It’s perfectly legal under both the federal and provincial medicare rules. But since it involves charging for health care, it adds fuel to a growing debate over two-tier health care in Canada.

Kindercare Pediatrics in Toronto launched its nurse-practitioner program in response to overwhelming demand from parents during the surge in respiratory illnesses among kids last fall, said the practice owner, Dr. And Flanders.

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St. Joseph’s Healthcare lost the fourth leader in five years

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St. Joseph’s Healthcare is losing its fourth top leader in five years as Melissa Farrell heads to Halton Healthcare.

“The four years I have had working at St. Joe’s been rewarding and deeply meaningful to me,” Farrell said in a tweets Friday.

Farrell was named president in 2019 of the hospital network that includes the Charlton Campus, the West 5th Campus and the King Campus urgent care centre. She made Hamilton’s fifth-highest public sector salary in 2021, earning $513,264, including taxable benefits.

She replaced Dr. David Higgins who stepped down as president when longtime CEO Kevin Smith departed in 2018

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Sudburians protest against health-care privatization

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A small group of protesters gathered outside of Sudbury NDP MPP Jamie West’s office on Saturday to join the politicians in protesting against the province’s privatization of health-care services

Several people gathered on Saturday for the latest in a series of protests against what they fear as being a push toward a two-tiered privatized health-care system.

“The general public is not really aware of the threat that is going on, and that’s why we’re rallying,” said Dot Klein, co-chair of the Sudbury chapter of the Ontario Health Coalition.

The province’s health-care system, she added, is “It is not for sale.”

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New York state ends COVID mask mandate in health care facilities

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NEW YORK — Another chapter of the pandemic is drawing to a close. Masking in hospitals is no longer mandatory. Instead, the decision will be up to individual operators.

As we approach three years since the pandemic started, one of the last COVID-era mandates is finally ending.

Starting Sunday, masks and face coverings will no longer be required in health care facilities in New York.

“I am delighted that it is not mandatory, that it is optional,” said Peter Hayn of the Upper West Side.

“I don’t mind that they are lifted because I can keep myself safe,” added subway

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