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Lawmakers target Hoosiers’ high health care costs | columnists

Violin16/02/2023 50 Views

A debate has stirred for years in Indiana about the kind of public action needed to bring down our state’s out-of-control hospital prices.

In the previous legislative sessions, elected officials have chiseled around the issue, passing legislation in hopes the health care market will fix itself. After not seeing improvement, last year House Speaker Todd Huston and Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray sent letters to the largest hospital-system and insurance company CEOs, asking them to work together to lower their prices to the national average, signaling that if they did not, they would be forcing policy makers to step

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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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His role is

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The Bay Health Foundation works to make health care services more accessible

Violin10/02/2023 40 Views

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – A local foundation is proving its commitment to the people of Bay County by continuing to make health care services more accessible to those who otherwise couldn’t afford them.

The Bay Health Foundation was formed more than a decade ago after Bay Medical leased the hospital to Ascension Sacred Heart. Since then, the board has been investing the money back into the community with more than $5 million in donations spread among a list of organizations.

On Thursday, the list grew at the 11th annual grant recipient luncheon. The foundation presented a $500,000 check to

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Nova Scotia health care: Changes announced to improve care in ERs

Violin27/01/2023 100 Views

Nova Scotia has announced extra resources to relieve the pressure on strained emergency departments, following the recent deaths of two women who waited hours for care.

At a news conference Wednesday morning, health officials outlined extra measures to improve ambulance response times, address long wait times and overcrowding in Nova Scotia’s ERs, and offer people more places to receive care.

“The needs of the system have expanded and changed, but the system has not,” said Health Minister Michelle Thompson during the news conference.

“Our government was elected to change that… after so many years of neglect. The past is not

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Government health line referring patients to virtual-only doctors

Violin26/01/2023 54 Views

When the Ontario government reduced the fees paid to doctors for virtual-only appointments in December, it was said the reason was to encourage family physicians to see patients in person as well as online.

It’s a model of comprehensive care that many experts say is preferable to virtual-only.

But the government’s own help line staffed by registered nurses — Health Connect Ontario — is referring to patients they believe should see a doctor to those same virtual services.

“Health Connect Ontario’s practice is to refer to OHIP-funded virtual care services where appropriate,” said the Ministry of Health in an email.

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Quebec health minister apologizes for end-of-life care for Robert Bourassa’s widow at St. Mary’s Hospital

Violin25/01/2023 90 Views

The regional health board that oversees St. Mary’s Hospital in Montreal says it will conduct an internal investigation into the end-of-life care the widow of a former Quebec premier received there, after her family said she suffered needlessly in her final days.

The family’s description of Andrée Simard’s treatment prompted Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé to offer them his apologies “in my name and that of the network,” while the minister responsible for end-of-life care, Sonia Bélanger, said the responsible health board must “review practices at St. Mary’s Hospital so that a situation like this one never happens again.”

Simard,

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A Perceived Philosophical Conflict – PHE America

Violin21/01/2023 58 Views

I am the only female in my high school PE department. It’s been this way for 20 years. The one time another female came in she tried to out-alpha the football coach and got removed from teaching PE and placed in Health. I think she might have taught one section of PE in the two years she was here, and I think it was Adapted PE. Since we’ve had a fully working weight room, it was always paired with the football coach. We got a new one this year, the fifth in my tenure working at this same high school.

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Plans underway to settle health-care workers from Kenya in Nova Scotia

Violin17/01/2023 132 Views

Plans are underway to make sure health-care workers recruited from Kenya will have what they need to start their new lives in Nova Scotia following a provincial recruitment trip to refugee camps, as well as the capital Nairobi.

Housing should be available before people arrive, according to the federal program that jump-started the hiring initiative. That’s why long-term care provider MacLeod Group has bought three homes for its workers in Mahone Bay and is in the market for more.

“We are doing this to try to retain employees as well,” said Doug Stephens, MacLeod Group’s general manager of human resources.

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