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Home care supply shortage due to mistakes by Ontario Health and Ontario Health atHome, sources say

Kenyon Wallace

Nov 112 min read

Home care supply shortage due to mistakes by Ontario Health and Ontario Health atHome, sources say

Ontario Health atHome says it is doing everything it can to address the situation and “continuing to look for opportunities to stabilize...

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Ontario Advocacy Consortium

Jul 152 min read

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...

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Ford could break Ontario’s fractured home-care system

Erin Ariss

Apr 241 min read

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....

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Names of Ontario health-care clinics found to have extra-billed being kept secret

Katherine DeClerq

Apr 11 min read

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,...

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Michael Wolfson

Mar 82 min read

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,...

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Pay-for-plasma clinic to open in Cambridge in 2025

Catherine Thompson

Mar 61 min read

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...

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Kitchener, Ont. family meets with health minister after 19-hour wait for emergency surgery

Spencer Turcotte

Mar 41 min read

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...

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Can we afford to keep ignoring the health of unpaid caregivers?

Monica Parry

Feb 281 min read

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...

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Can Community Paramedicine Help Alleviate the Strain on Health-Care Systems?

Christian Lopez

Feb 152 min read

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....

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Cash for health care at new Kitchener clinic

Catherine Thompson

Feb 101 min read

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...

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ICU Care Spikes To 17-Month High in Waterloo Region

Jeff Outhit

Jan 281 min read

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...

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Nolak P. Khopa

Dec 4, 20231 min read

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...

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Toronto's Vaccine Rollout at Risk: 4 Clinics on the Chopping Block

Nick Westoll

Dec 4, 20231 min read

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...

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Lost and Found: Training First Responders on Dementia Patients Who Wander

Cheyenne Bholla

Nov 12, 20231 min read

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...

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Lessons from a city that solved the family doctor shortage

André Picard

Oct 22, 20233 min read

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...

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