Teamsters from Yellow Corporation announced Monday that The Central States Health and Welfare fund will extend health care benefits for workers at the trucking company, at least temporarily averting a strike, according to a press release from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Union members had planned to strike starting midnight on Sunday due to the companies’ plans to end health care and retirement benefits for workers and their families.
On Friday, The Star reported a federal judge in Kansas ruled in favor of the Teamsters, saying they had a right to strike as part of their labor dispute.
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Opinion: Decentralizing Alberta Health Services is the wrong move
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The minister of health received her mandate letter from the premier this week, instructing her to “reform the management and structure of Alberta Health Services (AHS) to better decentralize decision-making.” This directive is wrong-headed and represents an ongoing distraction to the changes actually needed in our health-care system.
To be fair, the government should be recommended for its focus on health-system priority areas over the past eight months, including emergency care and surgery. Building on pre-existing AHS work, evidence-based actions were implemented by AHS, leading to measurable improvements that were only possible because of Alberta’s provincially integrated health…
Alberta’s obsession with re-structuring health care: A brief timeline
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“Give people the power, give them the resources, give them the authority to say yes at the local level, and we’re going to get much better service.”
Published July 23, 2023 • Last updated 4 hours ago • 4 minute read
Premier Danielle Smith listens as Dr. John Cowell, official administrator with AHS answers questions during a press conference on a new initiative to use alternative modes of transportation for non-emergency transfers to hospitals. The goal is to help free up paramedics and ambulances for emergency calls. The announcement took place in a training lab…
Private equity and creating and fostering a culture of health care compliance
July 20, 2023 – Private equity investment in health care can be lucrative. Yet, health care and private equity can often seem antithetical: One is driven by patient care and compliance while the other is motivated to make a quick profit. To coexist successfully (and profitably), private equity must fully appreciate all the potential compliance risks and requirements of a target health care entity before making an investment and work to implement, overhaul or update a target’s health care compliance programs once acquired.
Our four-part playbook for investors new to the health care sector provides an overview of precautions, a…
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Senators propose oversight of NIL, athlete health care
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A bipartisan group of senators announced Thursday they are working on a college sports bill that would create national regulations for name, image and likeness compensation for players, establish an entity to oversee the enforcement of those rules and fund long-term health care for athletes.
“Our goal is to stabilize college athletics and make sure that our athletes are fairly treated,” said Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) during a conference call with reporters.
Moran and Democrats Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) and Cory Booker (NJ) are proposing the College Athletes Protection & Compensation Act. It is only a discussion…
Mobile West Shore team pairs police, mental-health workers
The province is expanding its Mobile Integrated Crisis Response teams, also known as Car programs, to nine BC communities, including the West Shore
A program where specialized police officers are paired with health-care workers to respond to calls where people are experiencing a mental-health crisis is coming to the West Shore.
The province announced Monday that it is spending $3 million to expand its Mobile Integrated Crisis Response teams, also known as Car programs, to nine more BC communities. The teams are already in place in 10 communities, including Victoria and Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.
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BC promises $3M to expand program that partners cops with health-care providers
British Columbia is spending $3 million to expand a program that partners health-care workers with police in mobile teams to respond to mental health-related calls.
Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said Monday that the program aims to connect people in crisis to the appropriate services in their community, while taking pressure off stretched police resources.
“Currently, police have been the default first responders for people in the event of a mental health crisis and we know that in most cases, police-only involvement is not the most appropriate response,” he said.
“More importantly, having police-only involvement can help contribute to the…