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Ford’s health-care risk cuts the lives of society’s most vulnerable

A 6-year-old child ends up in the emergency room with meningitis, following days of concern by her parents about her fever and rash. A pregnant woman avoids seeing a health provider until she goes into labour, all the while worrying that she is risking her life and that of her baby. A young man falls off a roof while doing repairs, but bears the pain and waits to seek care until his injured leg becomes infected. You may be surprised to hear such things could happen in Ontario, in a country that prides itself on its universal health-care system. But…
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A Perceived Philosophical Conflict – PHE America

I am the only female in my high school PE department. It’s been this way for 20 years. The one time another female came in she tried to out-alpha the football coach and got removed from teaching PE and placed in Health. I think she might have taught one section of PE in the two years she was here, and I think it was Adapted PE. Since we’ve had a fully working weight room, it was always paired with the football coach. We got a new one this year, the fifth in my tenure working at this same high school.…
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Commonwealth Equity Services LLC Has $1.90 Million Stock Position in John Hancock Multifactor Health Care ETF (NYSEARCA:JHMH)

Commonwealth Equity Services LLC reduced its stake in John Hancock Multifactor Health Care ETF (NYSEARCA:JHMH – Get Rating) by 3.7% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investors owned 44,147 shares of the company’s stock after selling 1,703 shares during the quarter. Commonwealth Equity Services LLC owned about 0.08% of John Hancock Multifactor Health Care ETF worth $1,904,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A number of other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of JHMH. UBS Group AG lifted its…
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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. The West Shore RCMP team…
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New $51M hospital doubles patient capacity in rural Wis. county

By Rachel MergenLa Crosse Tribune WHITEHALL, Wis. — Rural health care is about to get an upgrade for about 20,000 residents in central Trempealeau County. The new 68,000-square-foot, 31-bed Gundersen Tri-County Hospital, full of up-to-date technology and modern medical services, will open its doors to the public July 24. The $51 million project, which will double the hospital’s patient capacity, also includes remodeling the existing 17,000-square-foot clinic. The project was made possible with donations, federal funds and a large bond, said Gundersen Tri-County Hospital and Clinics administrator Joni Olson. She said that the project is “a huge spend and a…