Healthcare Management

SASKATOON _ About 400 specialized healthcare workers in Saskatoon are off the job. It's the second straight day for strike action in the city.

The $237-million Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre is officially open in Surrey, B.C. Within one building, it will offer day surgery, diagnostic procedures such as lab, X-ray, CT and MRI scans and biopsies, and specialized health programs.

About 285 delegates attended the fourth annual National Healthcare Supply Chain Conference in Toronto, organized May 9-10 by the Healthcare Supply Chain Network (HSCN). A highlight of the event was the announcement of a partnership between HSCN and the Schulich School of Business of York University in offering a new program for health sector leaders.

West Vancouver resident and philanthropist Robert H.N. Ho and his wife Greta have made the largest donation in Lions Gate Hospital Foundation’s history and the largest to a North Shore institution.

KPMG LLP (Canada) has acquired HIO Group Incorporated (HIO), an operations and quality improvement healthcare consulting firm in Canada with Lean Six Sigma credentials.

Staunching the financial bleed of paper-based payables: a case study

Beginning in October, baked goods such as doughnuts and certain muffins that don't meet Capital Health’s healthy food guidelines will no longer be sold at Tim Hortons franchises operated by Compass Group for Nova Scotia’s largest provider of health services.