Emergency Care

• As Ottawa plans to hike health funding, families say system doesn’t learn from errors

  After Ottawa said it would spend $46 billion on the country's health-care system, some say Canada's patchwork of quality-reviews systems need deep reforms.

  Health

  Feb 9, 2023
  
• Alberta survivor champions STARS after service saved her life

  Alberta has three STARS bases so it takes roughly $30 million annually to run the service in the province.

  Canada

  Feb 8, 2023
  
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• Atlantic Canada needs health care funding based on need, not population: Green Party

  Federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said the Atlantic provinces have a higher proportion of residents who have complex health-care needs.

  Canada

  Jan 27, 2023
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• Halifax doctors worry announced ER improvements won’t work due to lack of beds

  An open letter to Premier Tim Houston signed by 39 doctors says the real problem is the not 'overuse' of emergency departments, but a lack of bed space.

  Health

  Jan 19, 2023
•  N.S. premier says he’s ‘open to anything’ when it comes to improving health care

  Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says he’s 'open to anything' to improve the province’s struggling health-care system.

  Health

  Jan 17, 2023
• ‘I don’t want to feel like an afterthought’: N.B. community reacts to overnight ER closure

  Residents in Sussex are fearful and frustrated after the local hospital's emergency department is set to close overnight on a daily basis for the foreseeable future.

  Health

  Sep 7, 2022
• N.S. Tories facing heavy criticism for their health-care handling in Year 1

  The Progressive Conservative government says improving health care in Nova Scotia is a work in progress, but opposition parties say things have never been worse than now.

  Health

  Aug 17, 2022
• B.C. senior with broken hip waits 10 hours for ambulance

  'Twice they said the ambulance was on the way, however it obviously wasn't ... They kept saying yes, they were on their way,' Jaqui Joys told Global News.

  Health

  Aug 16, 2022
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• Lachine Hospital ER to fully reopen for walk-in patients starting Monday

  After more than two months of being closed overnight due to staff shortages amid surging COVID-19 cases, the Lachine Hospital ER will reopen to walk-in patients as of Jan. 24.

  Health

  Jan 20, 2022
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• COVID-19: Influx of cases causing strain on Kingston hospitals

  With the Kingston area facing an influx of new COVID-19 cases everyday, KGH is now using approximately 90 per cent of its ICU capacity.

  Health

  Nov 30, 2021