Elderly pushed out of hospitals: Elder Advocate
Jane Meadus of the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly says that some seniors are being pushed out of hospital too soon under the province's Home First policy, the Ottawa Citizen…
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Public sector health care funding shrinks – again
Private funding of health care is increasing faster than public funding. Now the Canadian Institute for Health Information reports that public funding is expected to fall to 69.7% of total…
Finding appropriate care for ALC patients in hospital
Today, in the Ottawa Citizen, the Queensway Carleton Hospital in Ottawa reports a big decline in the number of “ALC” patients (down from 50 patients a day to 20 or…
Funding crisis forces hospital to cancel surgeries
Quinte Health Care is simply stopping elective surgeries for a week to deal with funding shortfalls from the provincial government. The hospital’s CEO Mary Clare Egberts told The Intelligencer that…
$9 M hospital settlement for law-suit alleging poor cleaning
Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital has agreed to settle a law-suit by approximately two-hundred victims of a C. difficile outbreak at the hospital for $9,000,000, the Hamilton Spectator reports. That is…
Bad health care practices follow bed cuts
Since closing 30 beds designed for non-acute patients in March, the number of non-acute patients occupying acute care beds at Health Sciences North in Sudbury has more than doubled. In…
Hospital can’t turn beds over to retirement home
A Windsor hospital has been officially blocked from setting up hospital beds in a for-profit retirement home. As noted in June, the Hotel Dieu Hospital was trying to create 18…