I am writing to nominate my colleague Ali-Akber Shermohammed Ali-Akber.Shermohammed@camh.ca for the award. He is a full-time RNs and a great team lead at CAMH schizophrenia acute care unit. Every day Ali is working very hard combining team lead role ... [Continue Reading]
Surprise Medical Bills Give Both Parties an Unexpected Opportunity to Agree
A broad campaign against costs is also expected to include an executive order mandating disclosure of health care prices. SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
To Fight Deadly Candida Auris, New York State Proposes New Tactics
The state health department calls on hospitals to do more to fight Candida auris, a mystery germ spreading the globe. SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
How U.S. Weapons Ended Up Hitting Hospitals in Yemen
A former senior State Department official sent to monitor the Saudi-led war in Yemen told us he saw firsthand how the Saudis failed to avoid civilian casualties — and how the U.S. chose to look the other way. SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story ... [Continue Reading]
Nursing Hero Nominee Andres Gomez, Trillium Health Partners
Author Mandy Hale once wrote “To make a difference in someone’s life you don’t have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful or perfect. You just have to care”. Andres Gomez exemplifies this quote as a nurse, mentor, and an individual. It is his supportive ... [Continue Reading]
What Superbug Hunters Know That We Don’t
There are trillions of bacteria living inside all of us. Why are we pretending they aren’t on our X-ray machines? SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Syrian Government Starts Campaign to Retake Last Opposition Stronghold of Idlib
The regime has gradually cornered rebels, extremist fighters and civilians alike in Idlib Province. SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
‘Medicare for All’ Could Kill Two Million Jobs, and That’s O.K.
Reform has a cost. But the point of a health care system is to treat patients, not to buttress the economy. SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Joule launches content hub to help future-proof physicians and medical learners
Joule, a Canadian Medical Association company, is pleased to announce the launch of Boldly, a physician-focused content hub that delivers information and thought leadership on the advances in medicine, health care delivery and medical practice, for ... [Continue Reading]
Doctor, We Need You in the Writer’s Room, Stat
I took a break from the I.C.U. to write on a medical drama. It was a chance to imagine a world where the outcomes followed the script I wanted. SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Nursing Hero Nominee Paul Welsby, Trillium Health Partners
It is with great pleasure that I nominate Paul Welsby, Renal Navigator, for consideration for the 2019 Nursing Hero Award. Throughout his career, Paul has repeatedly demonstrated his passion and commitment to improving the quality of patient care, ... [Continue Reading]
Can Doctors Refuse to Treat a Patient?
The Trump administration says they may, if treatment would violate their religious views. SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Nursing Hero Nominee Elli Clarke, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
My name is Jay Davis. On November 6, 2014, I had lifesaving and life altering triple bypass surgery at Sunnybrook Hospital. Following my recovery I decided that I wanted to give back to the hospital as a thank you to all of those who helped save my ... [Continue Reading]
‘This Is All We Can Afford’: Shrinking Lives in the English Countryside
In Cumbria, a bucolic landscape masks growing poverty and isolation. As bus lines are cut and services dry up under austerity, older people are feeling new constraints. SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Hundreds of Bodies, One Nurse: German Serial Killer Leaves as Many Questions as Victims
A nurse, Niels Högel, admitted to dozens of murders but might have killed as many as 300 patients. So what prevented colleagues from stopping one of the world’s deadliest serial killers? SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Treating a Patient With a Nightmarish Condition
She had lost all of her skin and I feared I had helped make her last weeks an unrelenting horror show, until our chance reunion. SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Meet Nursing Hero Nominee Juliet Hutchinson, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Nursing Hero Nominee Juliet Hutchinson, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Dear award selection committee, It is my pleasure to write this letter nominating Juliet Hutchinson for the 2019 Nursing Hero Award. I am writing on behalf of myself and many ... [Continue Reading]
Many Hospitals Charge Double or Even Triple What Medicare Would Pay
A study of 25 states provides a rare glimpse of the stark disparities between what private insurers and the federal government paid for inpatient and outpatient care. SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Nursing Hero Nominee, Christine Rae, Markham Stouffville Hospital
Name of nominee: Christine Rae, Registered Practical Nurse Nursing Hero story It’s been said that being a nurse is not what you do. It’s who you are. From her extraordinary commitment to help any patient in our hospital, to her exceptional ... [Continue Reading]
Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery: Better Than Current Treatments?
By Dr. Brit Cooper-Jones Glaucoma – a progressive optic neuropathy (a disease that damages the nerve that enables sight) – is a leading cause of blindness, affecting more than 400,000 Canadians. While early-stage glaucoma has no noticeable signs or ... [Continue Reading]
When Is a Transplant Worth It?
A year in a hospital bed is a “success” while dying after 11 months is failure. SOURCE: Hospitals - Read entire story here. ... [Continue Reading]
Nursing Hero Contest Third place winner: Christine Murphy, The Ottawa Hospital
Christine Murphy is a Nurse Specialized in Wound, Ostomy and Continence. (NSWOC), at the Ottawa, Hospital, Civic Campus, Ottawa, Ontario. Christine was a registered nurse working in the trauma unit and decided to take the wound ostomy continence ... [Continue Reading]