The article reports that Jack Davis' request of $25 to $30 million in provincial funding for a plan to address long wait times in the emergency departments of Calgary Health Region (CHR) is not the right solution to the problem. The lack of capacity in CHR's emergency rooms was ...
Flu hospitalizations continue to rise, however, with 1,413 people in hospital with the virus, 140 of whom are in intensive-care units. Twenty-one new flu deaths bring Alberta’s toll this season to 45, a number that includes two children under age 10. ...
A water birth in a hospital is hard to get these days in Ontario….so it might be nice to take advantage of that option in Alberta 🙂 [I checked in my area, and if you plan to give birth in a hospital, they won’t even let you bring in your own inflatable water tub. All the...
Red Deer-area to get a private surgical clinic to reduce wait times, says Premier Jason Kenney Anand, who wrote his own letter to the health minister, said the global shortage of anesthesiologists is real, but Calgary and Edmonton actually have more anesthesiologists than most cities and they ...
Patients with low health literacy experience difficulty in understanding their medications leading to worse health outcomes. Pharmacists need to use formal assessment tools to be able to identify these patients, so they can better tailor their patient education. The objective of the study was to chara...
Patients with low health literacy experience difficulty in understanding their medications leading to worse health outcomes. Pharmacists need to use formal assessment tools to be able to identify these patients, so they can better tailor their patient education. The objective of the study was to chara...