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Fewer young people needed hospitalization for substance-use issues in 2022, report says
Paramedics and ambulances are seen outside the emergency department at Burnaby Hospital in Burnaby, B.C., on Monday, May 30, 2022. COVID-19 cases are continuing to rise in British Columbia, with the BC Centre for Disease Control reporting hospitalizations are up nearly 60 per cent in the past two weeks. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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COVID-19 hospitalizations jump nearly 20% year-over-year, ICU and ER visits down, data show
The entrance to the emergency department at Peter Lougheed hospital is pictured in, Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Morning Update: Trump indicted by grand jury for plot to overturn 2020 election, inciting Jan. 6 mob
Nadine Seiler protest as she holds a banner outside federal court Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023 in Washington. Former President Donald Trump has been charged by the Justice Department for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The charges include conspiracy to defraud the United States government and witness tampering. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Agency releases snapshot of national health care system – with notable gaps
The Lakeshore General Hospital in Montreal June 1. Quebec is not participating in a new Canadian Institute for Health Information report that provided a snapshot of the state of health care in Canada's provinces.
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Surgery wait times and backlog continue to grow in Canada
The trauma bay is photographed during simulation training at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019. Alberta Health Services says some non-urgent surgeries will be postponed to bolster acute and intensive care space for COVID-19 cases. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
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Western Canada: The growing impact of homelessness on emergency departments
Emergency room doctor, Dr. Louis Francescutti, photographed at the Royal Alexandra Hospital on Thursday, January 5, 2023, recently treated an unhoused patient who was on their 360th visit to the ER. “I’ve had others that are in the 500 range,” he said. “I’m at work right now -- I came in at six o’clock, and the first six patients I saw were experiencing homelessness.” The Canadian Institute for Health Information will be encouraging doctors, and specifically ER doctors who have become a frequent point of contact for unhoused people, to track the housing status of patients they interact with. Amber Bracken for The Globe & Mail
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Code Z59.0: diagnosing the toll of homelessness on health care
Emergency room doctor, Dr. Louis Francescutti, photographed at the Royal Alexandra Hospital on Thursday, January 5, 2023, recently treated an unhoused patient who was on their 360th visit to the ER. “I’ve had others that are in the 500 range,” he said. “I’m at work right now -- I came in at six o’clock, and the first six patients I saw were experiencing homelessness.” The Canadian Institute for Health Information will be encouraging doctors, and specifically ER doctors who have become a frequent point of contact for unhoused people, to track the housing status of patients they interact with. Amber Bracken for The Globe & Mail
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Canadians logged more time waiting in ERs in 2021 than ever before
Paramedics are seen at the Dartmouth General Hospital in Dartmouth, N.S., Thursday, July 4, 2013. An emailed letter to staff of a Halifax-area hospital is warning that the pressure on the emergency rooms has risen to the point where "patients are dying in the waiting rooms" in recent weeks. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Canada’s supply of family doctors doesn’t match demand, and provinces lack data to find out why
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Canada has more family doctors than ever. Why is it so hard to see them?
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Fewer nurses willing to work in long-term care, new report says
Registered nurse Tenzin Dhasel, second right, puts on personal protective equipment with other health-care workers before proning a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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Health spending growth in Canada slows dramatically following pandemic surge
Toronto General Hospital in Toronto is shown on Thursday April 5, 2018. The number of doctors in Canada is growing at a rate more than double that of the population, says a report by the Canadian Institute of Health Information. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Doug Ives
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Rise in eating disorder hospitalizations among young women linked to social media and pandemic isolation, experts say
Rylee McKinlay suffered from an eating disorder, she is now a peer support worker and advocate for those suffering.
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Number of surgeries performed in Canada fell more than half a million during pandemic, report says
It may be harder for Ontario's health system to quickly respond to a future surge in critically ill COVID-19 patients, as non-virus care ramps up and workers contend with burnout, according to a new report. Registered nurse Claire Wilkinson tends to a 47-year-old woman who has COVID-19 and is intubated on a ventilator in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital in Toronto on Tuesday, April 13, 2021.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
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How to keep the peace when travelling with adult kids and grandkids, can Canada fix its aging crisis and more questions about reverse mortgages
Group of multiethnic big family enjoy dinner party together on the beach at sunset.
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Will COVID-19 spending data finally force us to take home care seriously?
André Picard
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Health care spending in Canada to surge beyond $300-billion due to COVID-19, report says
Nurses waiting outside the isolation room help the team working inside the isolation room of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient inside the intensive care unit of Humber River Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada April 15, 2021. Picture taken April 15, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
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One in nine newly admitted long-term care residents could be cared for at home, report says
A man takes a walk outside the Seven Oaks Long-Term Care Home in Toronto on Thursday, June 25, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
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81% of COVID-19 deaths in Canada were in long-term care – nearly double OECD average
Crosses laid out on a lawn near the Camilla Care Community, a long term care home in Mississauga, Ont., are photographed on April 13 2020. Fifty residents of the facility have died of the coronavirus.
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Three ways the pandemic is showing us how to improve health care
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Medication dominates Canadian health-care spending, according to new CIHI reports
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Federal health agencies need dramatic overhaul, report says
Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas Taylor listens to a question during an announcement on funding for the opioid crisis in Ottawa on Monday, March 26, 2018.