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...

Congratulations to AHA Quest for Quality Prize Honoree WellSpan Health who paid $3,600 for interpreters to contact Spanish-speaking patients who had delayed screenings. They found seven new #breastcancer cases - saving an estimated $600,000. #languagematters...

Going out on a limb with this potentially controversial comment. I am "speaking up" not "calling anyone out". I am not a clinician, but why couldn't Mr. King have the UTI diagnosed with point-of-care-testing followed up with home IV antibiotic infusion? This may have...

(CBC) Amplifying this video on the three-site North Shore Health Network (Lake Huron, Ontario). An excellent piece depicting the #clinical #HR, #fiscal and #operational challenges faced by all #rural and #northern healthcare facilities across #Canada. This is a must...

(CHQPR) 703 #rural US hospitals are at risk of closure: more than half are at immediate risk. Typically, Canada has about 10% of what is going on in the US. So that would be about 70 #ruralhospitals in Canada with about 35 at immediate risk. Given regular news reports...

Where a woman lives matters to her health: U.S. states vary widely in access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes for women. Gaps in women’s health and care could widen further, especially for women of color and those with low incomes who live in states that...