Information about average wait times at Fraser Health’s emergency rooms is now available online, the health authority announced Tuesday.
Hospitals in the region were added to the list of facilities last week, and the move comes as physicians in multiple emergency departments have started to speak out about dire conditions that are putting patients at risk.
“We apologize if you are experiencing longer than usual wait times in our emergency departments. We are experiencing higher patient volumes right now coupled with hospitalist medicine and human resources challenges,” an update on the health authority’s website says.
“We are working to support…
www.healthnews.com
Fraser Health acknowledged the issue as 2 more hospitals raised the alarm
On Monday, Fraser Health provided two senior leaders to address the latest letter outlining risks to patients, allegations of muzzling, and pleas for help from emergency physicians in the health authority’s hospitals.
Emergency doctors at the sister hospitals of Royal Columbian and Eagle Ridge have sent an open letter warning to their community of “the critical situation that is currently creating risk for our patients and undermining our ability to provide timely and safe, quality care” that has left them “at a breaking point.”
They say patients who need admission to hospital fur further treatment are waiting up to 72…
Lucira Health (NASDAQ:LHDXQ) Trading Up 12.9%
Lucira Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:LHDXQ – Get Rating) was up 12.9% during mid-day trading on Wednesday . The stock traded as high as $0.15 and last traded at $0.13. Approximately 604,233 shares were traded during mid-day trading, a decline of 95% from the average daily volume of 13,159,193 shares. The stock previously closed at $0.11.
Lucira Health Stock Up 12.9 %
The firm has a market capitalization of $5.16 million, a P/E ratio of -0.04 and a beta of 3.24. The company has a current ratio of 1.46, a quick ratio of 0.79 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.48. The firm’s…
Dow Jones Breaks Support As President Biden Makes This Debt-Ceiling Move; Elon Musk Says Tesla Will ‘Try’ This
Dow Jones futures rose slightly after hours, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Tesla (TSLA) is holding its annual shareholder meeting, but not offering a lot of big news.
X
The stock market rallied retreated Tuesday as debt-ceiling fears added to selling pressure to close. The Nasdaq had rallied for much of the session thanks to megacap techs, including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon.com (AMZN) and Google parent Alphabets (GOOGLE).
The S&P 500 and Dow Jones retreated most of the day, with the latter closing below the 50-day line. Market breadth was bleach.
Debt-Ceiling…
Common disinfectant wipes expose people to dangerous chemicals, research reveals | US news
Since the pandemic’s outbreak, the global use of disinfectants has gone through the roof. Clorox dramatically boosted the production of its wipe packs to 1.5ma day by mid-2021, and an industry trade group said 83% of consumers surveyed around the same time reported they had used a wipe disinfectant in the last week.
But as schools reopened, a group of toxic chemical researchers grew concerned as they heard reports of kids regularly using disinfectant wipes on their classroom desks, or teachers running disinfectant foggers.
The researchers knew the disinfectants did little to protect consumers from Covid, and were instead exposing…
Protesters crash UCP announcement on affordability
Protesters temporarily derailed a UCP campaign event led by Danielle Smith on Thursday.
Three people carried signs and shouted health care concerns as the Conservative leader was escorted out of the room.
It all happened during an announcement about a discount to help Alberta seniors with various registry services and other fees.
“Hospitals are not for sale,” one of the protesters said as others waved “For Sale” signs with health facility names written on them.
The demonstration appeared to be an attack on Smith’s comments made in 2021, proposing that Calgary’s Rockyview General Hospital, Peter Lougheed Center and South Health…