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Ontario's top doctor says province needs to modernize vaccine registry, calls for national schedule
"Ontario is lagging behind other provinces who have modernized their vaccine records, including British Columbia, Quebec, Alberta,...

Hannah Alberga
Sep 71 min read
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‘We medicalize aging’: The case for meeting seniors’ home care needs
Thousands of Canada’s oldest seniors have unmet home care needs, making it difficult for them to stay healthy and remain in their homes...

Meagan Gillmore
Jul 121 min read
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Reducing Emergency Department (ED) Wait Times
Competition announced to reduce ED wait times April 16, 2025 Waterloo Regional Health Network KITCHENER, Ont. – Like many hospitals...

Waterloo Regional Health Network
Apr 192 min read
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Health care's taking a backseat in this election. That's a missed opportunity, expert says
Health policy scholar Colleen Flood says Canadian voters should put party leaders’ 'feet to the fire' Jennifer Warren · CBC Radio ·...

Jennifer Warren
Apr 151 min read
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Home care supply shortage due to mistakes by Ontario Health and Ontario Health atHome, sources say
Nov. 11, 2024 Ontario Health atHome says it is doing everything it can to address the situation and “continuing to look for opportunities...

Kenyon Wallace
Nov 11, 20242 min read
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Nursing Home Closures in Toronto
“They aren’t nursing ‘homes’, they are institutions. They aren’t long-term ‘care’ facilities, they are institutions. End the...

Ontario Advocacy Consortium
Jul 15, 20242 min read
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Ford could break Ontario’s fractured home-care system
Just as the province sees an explosion in demand for home care, it is plunging this service into chaos. By Erin Ariss, Fred Hahn and J.P....

Erin Ariss
Apr 25, 20241 min read
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Names of Ontario health-care clinics found to have extra-billed being kept secret
March 22, 2024 The names of physicians and facilities found to have engaged in extra-billing for health services are being kept secret,...

Katherine DeClerq
Apr 1, 20241 min read
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Accountability in long-term care
Without concerted action, problems in long-term care will continue to fester, and indeed grow with Canada’s aging population. Thursday,...

Michael Wolfson
Mar 8, 20242 min read
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Pay-for-plasma clinic to open in Cambridge in 2025
A private clinic paying people to donate their blood plasma is expected to open in Cambridge late this year or in 2025. Wednesday, March...

Catherine Thompson
Mar 6, 20241 min read
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Kitchener, Ont. family meets with health minister after 19-hour wait for emergency surgery
A month after Ontario's health minister said she’d talk with the Kitchener family who waited 19 hours for an emergency appendectomy...

Spencer Turcotte
Mar 4, 20241 min read
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Can we afford to keep ignoring the health of unpaid caregivers?
Feb 27, 2024 Unpaid caregivers are the backbone of the Canadian health-care system, providing personal, physical, social and financial...

Monica Parry
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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Can Community Paramedicine Help Alleviate the Strain on Health-Care Systems?
Patients turn to emergency services because they cannot get care elsewhere. About one-fifth of Canada’s population is 65 years or older....

Christian Lopez
Feb 15, 20242 min read
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Cash for health care at new Kitchener clinic
Charging for health care: Nurse practitioners bill for service at new Kitchener clinic Phlox Health on Manitou Drive offers many of the...

Catherine Thompson
Feb 10, 20241 min read
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ICU Care Spikes To 17-Month High in Waterloo Region
Two more seniors die of COVID-19 as ICU care spikes to 17-month high in Waterloo Region Ten hospital patients who need intensive care is...

Jeff Outhit
Jan 28, 20241 min read
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We might as well be talking to a wall
Our health appears to be solely about us, yet the real focus should be on politicians and their influence on shaping public policy, Nolak...

Nolak P. Khopa
Dec 4, 20231 min read
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Toronto's Vaccine Rollout at Risk: 4 Clinics on the Chopping Block
Posted November 28, 2023 6:33 pm. Last Updated November 28, 2023 6:46 pm. It’s been more than two years since the City of Toronto widely...

Nick Westoll
Dec 4, 20231 min read
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Lost and Found: Training First Responders on Dementia Patients Who Wander
Waterloo researcher educating first responders on people with dementia who go missing A University of Waterloo research group has created...

Cheyenne Bholla
Nov 12, 20231 min read
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Lessons from a city that solved the family doctor shortage
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-lessons-from-a-city-that-solved-the-family-doctor-shortage/ Psst: Don’t tell anyone, but...

André Picard
Oct 23, 20233 min read
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