MONTREAL – Quebec is hoping to expand on a new model of care for patients in the emergency room experiencing a mental health crisis. The model has been in place at Notre-Dame Hospital in Montreal for several months, and earlier this month, Health and Social Services Minister Lionel Carmant (pictured) announced a plan to expand the measures to other hospitals.
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KITCHENER, Ont. – Grand River Hospital has launched a Hospital to Home program that is designed to help patients with complex care needs move from hospital-based services to their homes. Patients are recovering more quickly, with less complications, and leaving more beds available in hospital for those who need them, early indicators show.
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TORONTO – Creyos Health, a pioneering healthcare technology company dedicated to objective brain health measurement, has unveiled an end-to-end online dementia screening, testing, and care planning protocol to enhance how healthcare providers assess and monitor patient cognition.
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OTTAWA – Wellness Together Canada, which the federal government launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, is officially shutting down on April 3. As the end of funding for a national mental health portal comes to an end, advocates across the country are calling for appropriate alternatives.
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KITCHENER, Ont. – A new program has launched in Waterloo Region to help adults who no longer require hospital care to continue their recovery, healing and rehabilitation in the comfort of their own homes. St. Joseph’s Home Care’s Hospital to Home Program is delivered by St. Mary’s General Hospital in partnership with Bayshore Integrated Care Solutions.
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It’s been more than two years since Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital (JGH) launched its innovative hospital-at-home program (Hospital@Home) to help patients recover at home while being remotely monitored using digital technology.
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EDMONTON – Alberta Innovates, in collaboration with the Glenrose Hospital Foundation, is launching a new $2 million partnership to improve access for all Albertans living with physical and cognitive disabilities, by using digital supports for rehabilitative care.
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ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France – Withings, a world leader in connected health devices and the inventor of the first connected smart scale, announces its latest innovation available in Canada: Body Segment. Said to be the most advanced scale ever in Canada, Body Segment will help increase muscle mass faster, achieve fitness goals, monitor cardiovascular health, track metabolism, and evaluate the natural protective function of the skin.
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HAMILTON, Ont. – Home Care Ontario is calling on government to invest an additional $411 million annually for the next three years to improve patient-centered care and support its home care workforce. The investment would be directed, in part, toward modernizing the sector’s digital infrastructure to help create an electronic patient record that can been seen and updated by home care staff in real time.
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VANCOUVER – A judge will be asked to approve Vancouver Coastal Health’s (VCH) purchase of Seymour Health Centre Inc. from receivership for $12 million. Lawyers for receiver Ernst & Young (EY) have scheduled a hearing for Dec. 13 in B.C. Supreme Court about what they say is the only viable bid for the company that operates a primary care clinic on West Seventh Avenue as well as an integrated health services clinic on Hornby Street.
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