Rural Healthcare

How can you recruit healthcare workers to your region if they can't afford to live there?
Trying to lure healthcare professionals to fill vacancies on the heels of the longest, most difficult days of a pandemic is difficult.
Ontario hospitals prepare and brace for summer ER staffing challenges
Staffing shortages led hospitals to close their emergency departments for hours or even days at a time during the summer of 2022.

Shortage of physicians leads to closure of intensive care unit at P.E.I. hospital

Dr. Michael Gardam says Prince County Hospital has instead opened a progressive care unit for patients but adds that it cannot provide intensive care-level services.
Headwaters Health Care Centre hospital to receive $1.8 million for after hours doctor work

The funding from the provincial government will be used to support after-hours care at Headwaters Hospital and allow for more stable after-hours care.
Idaho hospital to stop baby deliveries, partly over politics

The decision to discontinue providing obstetrical services was emotional and difficult, hospital officials said in a news release.
Alberta program trains rural healthcare workers in supporting sex assault victims

The course focuses on assessment, forensic evidence collection and court testimony.
'Everyone asked me to stay': CAEP past-president describes grueling day in rural hospital highlighting need for national licensure

Dr. Kirsten Johnson said that while her welcome from patients was certainly warm, she highlighted the fact it took her seven months to get her license to work in this province.
Path to optimal patient care

This pharmacy owner reflects on what she needed to do to find her ultimate pharmacy fit
Alberta Opposition NDP promise health teams to improve access to family physicians

NDP Leader Rachel Notley says if her party forms government after the spring election, its goal would be for a million or more Albertans to be able to see their family doctor within a day or two near where they live.
Canadians worried about the state of provincial health systems: poll

Leger and The Association for Canadian Studies surveyed 1,554 Canadian adults over a two-day period in January.

How can you recruit healthcare workers to your region if they can't afford to live there?

Ontario hospitals prepare and brace for summer ER staffing challenges

Shortage of physicians leads to closure of intensive care unit at P.E.I. hospital

Headwaters Health Care Centre hospital to receive $1.8 million for after hours doctor work

Idaho hospital to stop baby deliveries, partly over politics

Alberta program trains rural healthcare workers in supporting sex assault victims

'Everyone asked me to stay': CAEP past-president describes grueling day in rural hospital highlighting need for national licensure

Path to optimal patient care

Alberta Opposition NDP promise health teams to improve access to family physicians

Canadians worried about the state of provincial health systems: poll