Continuing Care

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

OTTAWA – The Coordinated Accessible National (CAN) Health Network, a leading national initiative focused on accelerating Canadian innovation in healthcare, announced the launch of its Long-Term Care Innovation and Scaling Network. This new network, led by Ottawa-based Bruyère, is designed to enhance the quality of life for long-term care (LTC) residents and operators, by introducing innovative, Canadian-made technology solutions to address LTC’s most pressing challenges. Read More

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Partners Community Health, Trillium Health Partners and the Government of Ontario are revolutionizing long-term care (LTC) in the City of Mississauga with the opening of Wellbrook Place, two new state-of-the-art LTC homes, part of a larger Seniors’ Campus of Care, focused on providing specialized services to residents in the homes and the community. Read More

WINNIPEG – A new Manitoba research hub hopes to leverage computers, virtual technology and artificial intelligence to study and develop supports for patients in recovery, people with disabilities and older adults with conditions such as Alzheimer’s who want to live independently in their homes. Read More

TORONTO – Princess Margaret Cancer Centre is tackling inequities in healthcare head-on – bringing the lab to the patient. Dr. Neil Fleshner, clinician scientist in the University Health Network’s Division of Urology and Love Chair in Prostate Cancer Prevention, has launched a mobile prostate cancer testing clinic in collaboration with The Walnut Foundation, a men’s health interest and prostate cancer support group working with the Black community. Read More