Manitoba
Most of the masking requirements for health-care facilities in Manitoba are set to be lifted next week.
Masks will still be required in areas with vulnerable groups like cancer, transplant patients: Shared Health
The Canadian Press · Posted: May 03, 2023 3:22 PM EDT | Last Updated: May 3
Most of the masking requirements for health-care facilities in Manitoba are set to be lifted next week, but some individual health-care clinics may still require people to wear masks indoors, Shared Health says. (Radio-Canada)
Most of the masking requirements for health-care facilities in Manitoba are set to be lifted next…
what is healthcare
Here’s what’s in the bill that spurred the latest Republican walkout from the Oregon Senate
Republicans walked out of the Oregon Senate this week in large part to avoid a vote on a reproductive health care bill that passed the House on Monday. The bill passed despite delay tactics in the House and 6 hours of floor debate. OPB covered that debate and the contents of the bill on Tuesday, publishing a story shortly before the walkout commenced. Below is the short version of that story — just four main things to know about the bill that caused Republican state senators to walk out of the statehouse again.
State senate in session at the Oregon…
Manitoba’s health-care recruitment mission hits snag – Winnipeg Free Press
The Manitoba government’s plan to bolster the burned-out health-care workforce with more than 300 Filipino nurses and aides could face delays as negotiations on immigration drag on and a promised fast-track to license foreign nurses stalls.
Two months after the province launched a recruitment mission in the Philippines, the two governments have yet to approve a framework to facilitate the departure of the 300 nurses and aids offered jobs in Manitoba hospitals and nursing homes.
Shared Health, the provincial health authority overseeing the recruitment drive, said Manitoba government officials are working with their counterparts in the Philippines to accelerate the…
In a time of need, health care workers come through
Who saved me? It was the brilliant team of workers at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria.
A commentary by a Victorian resident.
You think you’ve been living and eating right. You get humbled by a life-threatening health crisis but then you’re saved.
Who saved me? It was the brilliant team of workers at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria.
Last week I was parking my school bus and I felt awful. My chest hurt and I was dizzy and nauseous.
“What’s this,” I thought? I almost called my wife to come and pick me up. I changed my mind.…
‘People’s Referendum’ targets health care privatization for profit – Kingston News
Numerous people stopped outside the Hotel Dieu Hospital to cast ballots in what the Ontario Health Coalition is calling a People’s Referendum. Photo By Michelle Dorey Forestell.
“Do you want our public hospital services to be privatized to for-profit hospitals and clinics?”
This is the ballot question posed by the Kingston Health Coalition (KHC) in what they are calling a “People’s Referendum” on the expansion of for-profit health care. They hope citizens will vote a resounding “No.”
The KHC is a local group affiliated with the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) that “supports public health care for all.” Health coalitions across…
What is Medicare Secondary Payer and when does it apply?
Editor’s note: This column, a repeat from last year, is a follow-up to the previous Health Care Buzz column.
Several adults are either on Traditional Medicare/TM already or are looking to move to Medicare as they turn 65 and have many questions about: Will Traditional Medicare always be the primary insurance after 65? Is there ever a time it won’t be? Great questions and as always, there are multi-layered answers.
Day Egusquiza
COURTESY PHOTO
When Medicare began in 1965, it was the primary payer for all claims except for those covered by Worker’s Compensation, Federal Black Lung and Veteran’s Administration…
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo launches her health care side hustle
Good morning, Broadsheet readers! The battle over mifepristone continues, Taylor Swift vetted FTX better than the pros, and Fortune senior writer Maria Aspan talks to Instacart’s CEO about getting her health care startup off the ground. Happy Thursday.
More from Fortune: 5 side hustles where you may earn over $20,000 per year—all while working from home Looking to make extra cash? This CD has a 5.15% APY right now Buying a house? Here’s how much to save This is how much money you need to earn annually to comfortably buy a $600,000 home
– Long-awaited launch. Since she took over…
Manitoba wants 150 new family doctors for the province, and recruitment specialists to find them
Shared Health is looking for outside help to address the severe physician shortage in Manitoba.
The organization that co-ordinates health care in Manitoba is seeking as many as three external firms to recruit an additional 150 family physicians to the province: up to 50 each in Winnipeg; the northern health region and Churchill; and the rest of rural Manitoba.
“Evolving population health needs, systemic issues, changes in how new medical graduates want to practice, and an increasing proportion of the physician workforce approaching retirement have all contributed to a need to increase the number of family physicians practicing in Manitoba,”…