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Quebec health minister planning overhaul of health network

Violin16/03/2023 65 Views

Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé promised that his planned overhaul of the province’s health-care network would shake the system to its foundations.

During his speech at the Center hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), the minister said the reform would require collaboration from all facets of the health network.

“I’m telling you right now, in two weeks the pillar of the temple will — I was looking for a better word — but it’s going to ‘shatter,'” he said.

“Why? Because it’s everyone who has to contribute. We will ask a lot, but from everyone,” Dubé said, naming unions, doctors

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Health care is not in ‘crisis,’ the minister said. Nurses disagree

Violin13/03/2023 48 Views

Nurses stormed Queen’s Park Thursday, with a protest outside and a lobby day inside the provincial parliament

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.

While Ontario’s nursing union held a mass protest outside Queen’s Park Thursday, a nursing lobby group was working on the inside, putting pressure on the Ford government.

The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) organized the protest with the support of allied labor groups. On stage before hundreds of nurses and supporters, president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions Linda Silas

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

Violin10/03/2023 74 Views

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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Trudeau, Ford to make healthcare announcements

Violin01/03/2023 63 Views

The tentative agreement will include $8.4 billion of new funding from the federal health transfer over the next 10 years, with a one-time top-up of $774 million.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Doug Ford are in the Peel Region on Monday where they are expected to make a significant healthcare announcement.

Trudeau’s office says he and Ford will be joined by federal Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos and federal Minister of Senior Kamal Khera.

The announcement is scheduled for 1 pm in Mississauga.

Last week, the federal government announced it had reached an agreement in principle with Ontario on

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Biden to defend health-care spending, ridicule possible GOP cuts

Violin28/02/2023 56 Views

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President Biden is planning to mount a vigorous defense of his health-care policies as he ramps up criticism of Republican proposals that he argues could threaten the Affordable Care Act and Medicare.

Biden is traveling to Virginia Beach on Tuesday afternoon as part of a new line of attack that puts the White House and congressional Republicans on a collision course over possible budget cuts. Some top Republicans have threatened to vote against raising the debt ceiling — which would cause the federal government to default on its loans within a few months — unless

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Sick of Winter? Try Saunas

Violin25/02/2023 48 Views

Winter can be long and dark. Sometimes you need something to help lift your mood during long dark days. Many of you know I am in love with my new sauna blanket and it helps get through winter in many ways!

1. It is great for your skin!

I always notice my skin gets so dry in the cold Wisconsin winters! My feet are dry, my face is dry, my lips are dry, my hair needs extra conditioner. Winter dries up our bodies and leaves our skin dry and vulnerable because of the unstable humidity in the air.

If you

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

Violin24/02/2023 83 Views

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

Violin22/02/2023 49 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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