Under British Columbia’s new family doctor payment model, instead of a flat fee per visit, family doctors are paid based on the number of patients seen in a day, time spent and the complexity of problems, the
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(Edmonton, Alberta) July 23, 2013... For most Albertans, the face of the health care system is their family doctor. Family physicians and the clinics they practice in are often patients' first point of entry to a large and complex medical system. As the population ages and health needs ...
““First, it was the total de-identification of the patient. There was a common thread between these patients; they were “COVID patients” but many of them had something more. Many had heart failure and other diseases, but everyone became a COVID patient. The other thing that I thought...
Video calls became a lifeline for many people during the restrictions of the early COVID-19 pandemic, allowing families to catch up, employees to work and patients to meet their doctors, all without ever leaving home. But those calls weren’t always accessible ...
Our unique and distinctive Opiate Drug and Alcohol treatment program allow men and women to come in from Calgary as well as Edmonton as we offer airport pickup. Numerous clients come to us from Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton and other locations in Alberta and even other provinces for Opiate...
A little-studied issue in the provision of care at home by informal caregivers is the increase in older adult patients with chronic illness, and more specifically, multiple chronic conditions (MCC). We know little about the caregiving experience for this population, particularly as it is affected...
Edmonton is populated with Whitetail Jackrabbits which are snow-coloured when there is snow on the ground, and brown forest-floor coloured in the springtime when they are born. Can you spot it? Camouflage is their game — Mother Jackrabbits leave their babies hidden in spots like these all ...
(5) being supported by the health system through training to address DVA, making asking about DVA routine, and allowing time to do the sensitive work with patients (Hegarty et al.,2020). Their findings led them to develop the CATCH (Commitment, Advocacy, Trust, Collaboration, Health System ...
The Home Infirmary was intended to be a hospital for African Americans during the Jim Crow era, but white doctors also worked there, and Dr. Burt also treated white patients. I knew there was more to the history and leadership of Dr. Burt. When I discovered that there wasn't a ...