On a peaceful summer afternoon earlier this year, London, Ont., resident Jim Purchase was getting ready to head out to the movies with his wife when he started to feel “kind of funky.” Purchase, 67, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2002 and ended up in hospital multiple times since then due to tightness in his chest and difficulty breathing.
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OTTAWA – The four long-term care facilities run by the City of Ottawa have been found non-compliant with legislation governing long-term care homes more than 200 times over the past five years, including numerous incidents of patient abuse, according to a review by the Ottawa Citizen newspaper.
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OTTAWA – A study by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has found that up to 30 percent of seniors entering residential care could be supported in home care, given the right mix of community services and in-home care.
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TORONTO – FedDev Ontario, a federal government agency, announced that it is providing AlayaCare Inc. with up to $750,000 to commercialize its innovative home healthcare software. Healthcare systems are impacted by the aging baby boomer generation and are looking to the tech and software community to provide solutions that are more affordable and outcome-driven.
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OTTAWA – Bruyère Continuing Care is the first customer in Canada for the Better Choices, Better Health program, which is offered jointly by Medtronic and Canary Health, a Los Angeles-based provider of digital health, self-management programs.
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MARKHAM, Ont. – ParaMed Home Health Care, said to be Canada’s largest home healthcare provider, has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Complia Health, of Schaumburg, Ill., a leading global provider of enterprise software for long-term and post-acute care provider organizations.
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EDMONTON – The Alberta health ministry’s latest budget has funding for home and community care jumping by $200 million to more than $2 billion. It’s all in a bid to reduce pressure on hospitals while enabling those who prefer care in the home to receive it.
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One in five Canadians will be affected by mental illness in their lifetimes, but the hodge-podge of services the healthcare system offers is difficult to access and navigate. To tackle this, the Mississauga-Halton Local Health Integration Network (MH LHIN) has developed an innovative solution that integrates its one-Link initiative, led by Halton Healthcare, with a Novari e-referral system.
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CALGARY – A test of a portable, model home that’s designed to help seniors stay in their communities is set to go ahead as a pilot project in January. The project, led by a University of Calgary research team, centres on a 460 square-foot, one-bedroom laneway house equipped with medical monitoring technology.
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OTTAWA – Staff at an Ottawa nursing home recently discovered that maggots had infested a resident’s leg wound, landing the woman in hospital – horrifying her family and triggering a police investigation.
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