Health Care
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Doctors Manitoba eager to begin working with new government on health-care solutionsPremier-designate Wab Kinew and his party campaigned on improving health care and bringing back three emergency rooms that were converted into urgent care centres.Politics7 hours
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More hospital beds will ease strain on emergency rooms, Manitoba NDP leader saysNDP Leader Wab Kinew says if the NDP is elected Tuesday, he will add beds to hospitals in Winnipeg and Brandon that have seen long wait times in emergency rooms.PoliticsOct 2
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Indigenous representation in health care improving – but ‘enormous gaps’ remainAmong the calls to action by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, some are focused specifically on health care. What progress has been made?CanadaSep 30
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‘You don’t wait around’: A Manitoba man’s struggle to get his mother transported to health care she neededManitoba's Community Paramedic Services began as a group dedicated to getting people using wheelchairs to health-care centres across the province. But that all changed.HealthSep 29
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Sask. woman stranded 600 kilometres from home while being refused care in Manitoba hospitalMcBratney was rushed from Denare Beach to Flin Flon General Hospital, but was refused care in the dialysis unit because she does not have a Manitoba health card.CanadaSep 28
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B.C. announces details of $20 million to expand travel supports for cancer treatmentThe B.C. government has announced details on a $20 million funding boost to expand travel supports for cancer patients living in rural and remote communities.HealthSep 27
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B.C. proposes change to allow physician assistants to work in emergency roomsPublic consultation can be provided for the next seven days and if approved, the bylaw will allow physician assistants to work in ERs under the direction of physicians.HealthSep 27
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‘People are freezing’: Hotel-turned-homeless shelter with empty rooms under scrutinyA number of unused rooms at Nova Scotia's largest shelter is raising concerns -- the outcome of a staffing shortage on the facility's health floor.HealthSep 27
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Leave Policy 713 to the courts: former Tory ministerDaniel Allain says the government should leave Policy 713 to the courts and focus on other issues like affordability and health care that are on the minds of the province.PoliticsSep 26
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Profit outpacing costs in B.C. long-term care facilities, seniors’ advocate saysA report from B.C. seniors' advocate says profits for contracted long-term care facilities are growing faster than expenses such as as direct care costs and staff wages.HealthSep 25
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