Second Alberta family comes forward after patient discharged from hospital to hotel
Alberta politicians have been peppered with questions since CBC News broke the story of how a hospital patient expecting to be moved to a care home was instead taken to a hotel. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Edmonton Source Type: news
Alberta to find new homes for 39 people after covering non-profit's $25K unpaid hotel bill
Premier Danielle Smith says a non-profit that placed Albertans in hotel rooms after they were discharged from hospital put them in danger of eviction with a $25,000 unpaid hotel bill, and the government had to step in to pay. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Edmonton Source Type: news
Alberta to rehome 39 people after covering $25K unpaid hotel bill for non-profit housing patients
Premier Danielle Smith says a non-profit that placed Albertans in hotel rooms after they were discharged from hospital put them in danger of eviction with a $25,000 unpaid hotel bill, and the government had to step in to pay. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Edmonton Source Type: news
Family struggles to move mother across country to B.C. care home
The daughters of an assisted care patient in P.E.I. are running into roadblocks as they try to transfer their mother into B.C. subsidized care. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
Ontario extends program that helps rural and northern hospitals avoid ER closures
Ontario is extending a program that helps rural and northern hospitals avoid temporary ER closures for another six months. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Sudbury Source Type: news
Long-term care homes and agency didn't properly check fake nurse's credentials, Ontario documents show
Three long-term care homes that hired a fake nurse didn't properly check her credentials, according to Ontario inspection reports. Two of the homes are in Hamilton and the third is in Toronto. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Hamilton Source Type: news
Anti-Black racism addressed in new course for health-care providers
A family doctor who helped create an anti-Black racism course for health professionals says she hopes participants will "unlearn" long-standing discriminatory practices. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
Family medicine access in Canada drops since 2016, survey suggests
Family doctors are gatekeepers for medical care in Canada, but the proportion of adults with access to a primary care provider has declined, a new survey suggests. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
Pioneering pig-to-human kidney transplant performed in U.S.
A 62-year-man with end-stage renal disease has become the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig, doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announces. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
Canada faces shortage of measles vaccines amid rise in cases, demand
Canada is facing a shortage of measles vaccines amid a rise in cases across the country and around the world, and an increase in demand. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/New Brunswick Source Type: news
Homeless people in Edmonton are dying at 8 times the rate as pre-pandemic
Over the past five years, the number of homeless people who die annually in Edmonton has increased dramatically — from 37 in 2019 to 302 in 2023, according to data provided by Alberta Justice. In Calgary, that number has risen from 51 to 294 in the same time period. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Edmonton Source Type: news
As Ontario faces a certified class action, former recipients of basic income pilot share their struggles
Tracey Crosson is left with just $22 after paying rent. Single dad Joshua Hewitt feels his dignity has been "stripped away." As Ontario faces a certified class action lawsuit, some of the thousands who benefited from the basic income pilot project share stories of how life has been since it was scrapped early, in 2018, by the Ford government. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Thunder Bay Source Type: news
Ontario cancer patients forced to choose between treatment and jobs
An Ottawa doctor says he's speaking out after watching patients being forced to choose between treatment and employment. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Ottawa Source Type: news
Stripped of dignity, $22 left after rent — stories emerge as Ontario sued for halting basic income pilot
Tracey Crosson is left with just $22 after paying rent. Single dad Joshua Hewitt feels his dignity has been "stripped away." As Ontario faces a certified class action lawsuit, some of the thousands who benefited from the basic income pilot project share stories of how life has been since it was scrapped early, in 2018, by the Ford government. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Thunder Bay Source Type: news
Woman says she had to wait for ER to open as husband had seizure
A Prince Rupert woman says emergency room closures plaguing the B.C. port city forced her to make an "impossible" choice when her husband had a severe epileptic seizure early Monday morning. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
