Quebec Healthcare

• ‘Heartbreaking’ experience as former Cree grand chief spends 4 days in Montreal ER hallway

  Jade Mukash is sharing her grandfather's story in hopes of spurring change after they travelled more than 1,000 kilometres from Whapmagoostui off the coast of Hudson Bay.

  Canada

  Jan 17, 2024
  
• Quebec mother with rare brain tumour raises funds to afford life-saving surgery

  Celyn Harding-Jones is organizing an online auction, hoping to raise the $200,000 she needs to cover the costs of surgery with the world's leading expert in the United States.

  Canada

  Sep 4, 2023
  
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• Unions concerned about summer staffing at Lakeshore General following Dupuis report

  As patients continue to arrive at the emergency department of the Lakeshore General Hospital, staff wonder how they are going to cope this summer.

  Health

  Jun 2, 2023
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• Quebec launches plans for at-home hospitalization across the province

  As part of efforts to tackle hospital overcrowding the Quebec government has announced plans for patients to get hospital care at home.

  Health

  May 1, 2023
• Anesthesiologist charged with manslaughter after patient’s death in Quebec

  Police said Isabelle Desormeau was the anesthesiologist during a surgery for an 84-year-old man at Laval's Cité-de-la-Santé hospital. The patient died following surgery.

  Crime

  Apr 4, 2023
• Quebec health minister says emergency room death of 86-year-old woman ‘disturbing’

  A coroner has been assigned to investigate the circumstances surrounding the woman's death in a hallway of the emergency room at Hôtel-Dieu hospital.

  Health

  Mar 2, 2023
• New Quebec bill aims to phase out use of private health agencies

  Quebec's Health Minister introduced a bill to limit and regulate the use of private health-care agencies. The goal is to stop depending on them within the next three years. 

  Health

  Feb 15, 2023
• Quebec payments to private health-care agencies explode

  The province has doled out $3 billion to private health agencies. Annual costs went from $1.7 Billion in 2016 to $9.1 billion in 2022. 

  Canada

  Feb 14, 2023
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• François Legault criticized for Ottawa’s ‘insulting’ health funding offer

  A day after the federal government put its funding offer to premiers on the table, Quebec opposition leaders call François Legault's negotiation of health transfers a failure.

  Health

  Feb 8, 2023
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• Quebec appoints external advisor after protest by nurses partially shuts down Montreal hospital ER

  The local health authority urged Montrealers to avoid the hospital's ER due to "an exceptional situation" overnight Monday. The ER reopened Tuesday morning.

  Canada

  Jan 17, 2023