This aired on CityNews last night. HopeAir.ca provides Canadians in financial need with free travel, accommodation and related services for medical care far from home. Five provinces provide some financial support to Hope Air. Ontario is not one of them. In December...

(CBC - WCBA) Not only does this food bank in the Scarborough (Ontario) address #foodinsecurity. It is also a great connector to other health and social care programs as it offers access to #primarycare - physical and mental health. If they have not yet done so...

This demonstrates the degree to which our health care system is 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗿-𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗼𝗲𝗱 and clearly favours cost over quality. Significant process changes should 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 occur without meaningful engagement of both the medical community 𝗮𝗻𝗱 appropriate Patient & Family Advisory...

(CMAJ) Super impressed by the use of #AI tool 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 at @UnityHealthTO to ↓ 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝟮𝟲% 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘀. Spread within the hospital and to other hospitals will 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆. https://www.cmaj.ca/content/196/30/E1027...

Hats off to New Brunswick @Gov_NB for expanding their 𝗡𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 program. Started in 2019 at the York Care Centre, it has expanded to 22 locations across the province. The goal is to support seniors to #ageinplace.Rather than building hundred of...

Food insecurity remains a large and persistent problem in Canada. In 2023, 22.9% of people in the ten provinces lived in a food-insecure household: that is 8.7 million Canadians, including 2.1 million children. Further, the number of people living in food-insecure...

The Canada Health Act has remained mostly unchanged since 1984. The incessant back and forth between the individual provinces, the Council of the Federation, and the federal government have not contributed one iota to resolving the challenges faces by our health care...

Regarding Ontario's #safeconsumptionsite issue, this Provincial Coroner's Office page represents a horrible, stark and unrelenting reality. Seven deaths *per day* YTD 2024 is completely unacceptable. https://odprn.ca/occ-opioid-and-suspect-drug-related-death-data/

(CMAJ) Despite increased funding for #cataract surgeries to #private, #forprofit clinics, access to surgery fell 9% for #lower income people in Ontario between 2017 and 2022. Unexpectedly, despite new public funding for operations provided in private for-profit...

(From Health Affairs) How is it that we never read about "game changing" investments to minimize Adverse Childhood Experiences #ACE? Wouldn't they always be classified as the best return on investment that we could ever make #ROI? (Health Affairs) ACE - Health care...