Dawson Creek & District Hospital has the highest rate of hospital deaths after major surgery in Northern Health at 5.3 per cent, while the University Hospital of Northern BC located in Prince George has a rate of 3.6 per cent.
Northern Health had 58.8 per cent more hospital deaths following major surgery in 2021-22 than the provincial average and 49 per cent more than the rest of Canada, according to a report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).
Dawson Creek & District Hospital has the highest rate of hospital deaths after major surgery in Northern Health at 5.3…
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Cano Health Announces Date to Report First Quarter 2023 Results
Published: Apr. 25, 2023 at 4:30 PM EDT|Updated: 17 minutes ago
MIAMI, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Cano Health, Inc. (“Cano Health” or the “Company”) (NYSE: CANO), a leading value-based primary care provider and population health company, will release its financial results for the first quarter 2023 after the market closes on Tuesday, May 9, 2023and will host a conference call at 5:00PM Eastern Time the same day to review its business and financial results.
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To access the live call and webcast, please dial (888) 660-6359 for US participants, or (929) 203-0867 for international participants, referencing the…
NS signs a deal to transform the Dartmouth hotel into a homeless shelter and health clinic
Nova Scotia’s government says a Halifax-area hotel that’s already been housing some homeless people will soon become a full-fledged shelter and health clinic.
The Progressive Conservative government announced Friday it’s signed a deal worth $10 million to lease all 190 rooms inside the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Dartmouth, NS, from May 1 to March 24, 2024.
Many homeless people had already been staying at the Hilton, in rooms rented by the government, but the hotel had continued to remain open to the public.
When the clinic opens, Health Minister Michelle Thompson said it will serve as a source of…
Feinstein’s future ‘in her own hands’ amid extended health absence from the Judiciary Committee, Durbin says
The future of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is “in her own hands,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Sunday, as Feinstein’s extended absence from the panel due to health issues has some fellow Democrats calling for her to resign.
Durbin, who succeeded Feinstein as chair of the Judiciary Committee, said during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the longtime lawmaker has undergone “several weeks of travail” over a health issue involving shingles, but still wants to return to serve the committee.
“She said to Chuck Schumer last week that ‘I want to get on a…
Members of union representing health-care workers vote 99% in favor of strike mandate
Members of a union that represents about 7,000 rural paramedics and emergency dispatch, respiratory therapists, lab and diagnostic technologists, and other allied health professionals in Manitoba have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike mandate.
The Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals, whose membership also includes social workers, pharmacists, physiotherapists and dietitians, among workers in many other professions, says its members voted 99 per cent in favor of adopting a strike mandate.
The union’s bargaining committee called for a strike vote in March, after more than a year of negotiating for a new collective agreement, according to a Friday news…
4 Tips to Lose Weight without Feeling Hungry
Are you trying to lose a few pounds? Do you find yourself hungry all the time?
Just because you’re trying to lose weight, doesn’t mean you have to deal with a grumbling stomach. Here are some easy tricks to make you feel fuller longer.
Tip 1. Eat more whole grains
While refined grains, like white flour, white pasta, and white rice will cause you to feel hungry just a short time later; whole grains, like brown rice, oats, millet, and teff will leave you feeling much satisfied longer.
When eating pasta, be sure to choose whole-grain pasta, such as brown…
Montreal public health monitoring of flesh-eating disease cases in Terrebonne
Doctors in Terrebonne are concerned about a cluster of cases of flesh-eating disease after four people have been admitted to hospital over the past 10 days and one of them died.
Public health issued an alert to health-care workers in the province to be on the lookout and to investigate cases where the patient presents symptoms that could be flesh-eating disease.
Four recent cases of necrotizing fasciitis at Le Gardeur Hospital in Terrebonne, a northern suburb of Montreal, were not linked, meaning the patients weren’t in contact with each other.
The protocol for the immediate family is to be treated…
Healthcare protest on overpass Thursday
The majority of public hospital operating rooms are only open from 9 am to 4 pm, and closed on weekends
The North Bay and District Health Coalition wants the government to scrap Bill 60 Your Health Act, 2023, and will hold a protest on the West Ferris overpass Thursday.
The act will privatize surgeries and diagnostics and will expand private hospitals and clinics.
“The North Bay and District Health Coalition is having a rally to bring awareness to the people of Nipissing about the Bill 60 to ask Minister Fedeli to stop the madness and scrap of Bill 60 now…