Vitalite Health Network

• ‘This can’t continue’: No value for money in N.B. use of travel nurses, auditor says

  The province's auditor general said the roughly $173 million the province spent on travel nurses was not justified and didn't correlate to COVID-19-related staff vacancies.

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  Jun 4, 2024
  
• Lack of French exam prep, poor translation causing accreditation delays: U de M nursing school director

  Francophone nursing students often need to take the exam two or three times due to a lack of French-language prep materials and the poor translation of the exam.

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  Feb 22, 2024
  
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• Public asked to avoid overcrowded N.B. emergency rooms unless absolutely necessary

  New Brunswick's francophone health agency is asking residents to avoid two of its emergency rooms unless absolutely necessary because of capacity issues.

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  Dec 29, 2023
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• New Brunswick doctors raising concerns over lab services

  Doctors in New Brunswick spoke to the need to keep lab services in hospitals on Tuesday, while the department of health said that no changes are set in stone

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  Jun 27, 2023
• N.B. man who died in ER waiting area was dropped off alone by care home, documents say

  Documents show a patient who came to a N.B. emergency room and later died without been treated, had been dropped off by their home care and left alone.

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  Jun 26, 2023
• New Brunswick government to cover some fees for internationally-educated nurses

  On Friday, the provincial government announced it would cover some of these costs for up to 300 IENs a year for five years.

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  Jun 2, 2023
• Fredericton cancer patient raises concerns about hospital food quality

  During a five-day hospital stay following surgery to treat their colon cancer, Maggie Lyons-MacFarlane said the food at the hospital made them feel 'miserable' and 'nauseous.'

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  May 31, 2023
• Former N.B. health authority board member decries elimination of elected members

  A former board member called a recent decision to eliminate elected members from the regional health authority boards is "drastic and problematic."

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  May 11, 2023
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• Vitalité Health Network has nine times more beds closed in hospitals than Horizon

  New Brunswick's Vitalité Health Network has had to 'close' 180 hospital beds across the province compared to just 20 beds being closed in Horizon Health Network hospitals.

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  May 10, 2023
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• N.B. health authorities halt COVID-19 screening for most patients

  The two regional health authorities in New Brunswick are moving away from routine screening of COVID-19 for most patients entering the health-care system.

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  Feb 3, 2023