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- 4/10/2024
Ontario won’t divulge total fines for hospital patients refusing transfers to LTC
A law enacted in 2022, known as Bill 7, requires hospitals to levy fines of $400 a day on patients who can be discharged but need long-term care and are refusing to go to a home selected for them. - 4/9/2024
As federal budget approaches, putting healthcare money to work is what Canadians want and need: CMA
Dr. Kathleen Ross, CMA president, calls for solutions like team-based care, pan-Canadian licensure and a national health workforce strategy. - 4/9/2024
Health minister compares dentists’ ‘fears’ on dental-care program to medicare rollout
With less a month before seniors registered in the federal program are set to begin accessing service, the minister defended his government’s back-and-forth discussions with dentists. - 4/9/2024
Burnout: Why don’t family doctors just cut back their hours?
Cutting back hours as a family doctor results in a cascade of negative consequences, argues Dr. Nadia Alam. - 4/9/2024
Ontario to support opposition bill to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic
Last June, the province rejected calls from an inquest into the deaths of three women at the hands of their former partner to formally declare intimate partner violence an epidemic. - 4/9/2024
Feds launching $500M fund for youth mental health
During the 2021 election campaign, the Liberals promised a similar fund for post-secondary institutions. - 4/9/2024
‘I’m not paying it’: Family furious over $400/day hospital fine for not moving to LTC
A few weeks ago, Michele Campeau faced what seemed like an impossible decision: move her mom from a hospital bed to a long-term care home the family hated or pay $400 a day to remain at the healthcare facility. - 4/8/2024
Social prescribing: giving a name to whole-person care
Dr. Dominik Nowak outlines how the Centre for Effective Practice and other resources can help clinicians connect patients to non-clinical services and programs. - 4/8/2024
New Brunswick patient found slumped in chair, dead, after waiting seven hours, inquest told
A nurse told the inquest she was the only triage nurse during her 12-hour shift and did not have time to check on patients in the waiting room. - 4/8/2024
This Ontario health unit is pushing back as the province moves to expand alcohol sales
The Ontario Public Health Association recommended last year the province reduce the density of alcohol retail outlets especially in lower socioeconomic neighbourhoods.