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26/08/2015

CFHI Interview with Jennifer Donovan and Julie Coughran, York Care Centre, Fredericton, NB

In a new, occasional feature, we interview leads of CFHI-supported projects currently underway. This month we profile Fredericton-based York Care Centre (YCC), one of 15 organizations taking part in CFHI’s Reducing Antipsychotic Medication Use in Long Term Care collaborative. YCC’s Jennifer Donovan, Clinical Research Coordinator and project manager, and Julie Coughran, project lead, describe their team’s progress in addressing inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications for patients with dementia since the project formally launched in September 2014. The quality improvement collaborative was created to address a serious issue in long term care (LTC) facilities, where one in three residents takes antipsychotic drugs without a diagnosis of psychosis from a doctor.

By JENNIFER HAMILTON-MCCHARLES, The Nugget Thursday, June 11, 2015

The North Bay Regional Health Centre is forecasting a deficit this year, but what the impact will be to staff or patients isn't yet known. “We do not have specifics as we are finalizing the impact of health system funding reform on the hospital's specific situation,” stated Kathy Stackelberg, senior communications specialist at the hospital in a prepared statement from senior administration.

In January, 75 positions were eliminated, which is part of a three-year plan. The plan also includes the closure of 59 beds and other measures to achieve $30 million in savings. This year is the second year of the process. As of January, 100 jobs have been eliminated and 36 bed closures.

By JENNIFER HAMILTON-MCCHARLES,

October 21, 2015

Unionized employees at Cassellholme want to get back to the bargaining table and resume contract negotiations. Angie Whaley, president of Canadian Union Public Employees Local 146 and 146-1 said employees want to get back to the table and negotiate a fair deal.

October 18, 2015

Sunday, October 18, is Health Care Assistant Day. It’s a time to pay tribute to the thousands of care aides and community support workers who provide direct care and personal support for many of B.C.’s most vulnerable citizens.

But it’s also a time to recognize the serious challenges these workers face every day in their efforts to provide the best care they possibly can.

October 28, 2016

The future of universal, public health care is on trial in court case.

Dr. Brian Day, the CEO of Cambie Surgeries Corp., is back in B.C.’s highest trial court to argue against Canada’s public health care system.

May 24, 2016 Guardian, spring 2016

The growing crisis in seniors’ care isn’t new. But after a week of sustained pressure in the media and the legislature in mid-April, B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake has ordered a review of staffing guidelines in the province’s residential care homes. HEU’s secretary-business manager Jennifer Whiteside is welcoming the review, and says the union will continue to call on government to legislate staffing levels that would ensure seniors get the quality and continuity of care they need.

Jun 24, 2016  

100 or so public health employees in the region set to vote on the tentative deal July 4 and 5

KAWARTHA LAKES - A tentative agreement has been reached for about 100 public health employees in the region under CUPE 1602 with the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit. “We are happy to put forward this agreement for ratification by CUPE members. We see the deal as a positive step along the path to strengthening and improving public health services in Haliburton County, the City of Kawartha Lakes, and Northumberland County,” said CUPE representative Jennifer Mizerovsky.

WEST VANCOUVER -- When Pamela Hollington placed her 80-year-mother into a nursing home she was shocked to learn there would be as few as two care aides at times overseeing 50 residents on a specialized ward for people suffering from dementia.

Hollington now pays for a companion to visit her mother daily to “augment staffing levels.”

“You see a lot of private, paid companions. This is not an indictment of the staff. I don’t know how they do it. To go to work every day knowing there are just two of them,” she said.

in 2010 the national median wage for homecare workers stood at $9.40 per hour

the mean annual income for these workers in 2009 was $15,611

More than half of all personal care aides live in households that depend on one or more public benefits

Charles D. Mallory, Alexandra Constant, Anna Piercy, Jennifer Major 04/10/2011

Most provincial and territorial medicare programs fully or partly fund health services beyond the requirements of the CHA

Healthcare has changed dramatically since the CHA was passed in 1984. With technological innovation, medically necessary care is no longer provided solely in hospitals

Nurses are the largest health care profession in the province. Currently, one in ten nurses in Ontario is an Internationally Educated Nurse (IEN).

Almost 300 foreign-trained nurses arrive in Canada each year with most settling in Ontario

For more information about the IEN Project, visit www.oha.com/ien or contact:Dr. Andrea Baumann at baumanna@mcmaster.ca  Dr. Jennifer Blythe at blytheje@mcmaster.ca  Maggie Fung at mfung@oha.com

June 17, 2009

Model of Care Design Team

the Model of Care Design Team will look at clarifying the roles of Island health care providers and support staff, and improving the interactions between these roles so that all members of the health care team are empowered to work to their full potential

17/12/2011

It is estimated that nearly 16 million Canadians, almost every other one of us, is living with a chronic condition.

Canadian seniors over the age of 65 reporting at least one chronic illness

Toronto Star Tue May 5 2015

Pattern of neglect, Editorial April 29 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission will conclude on June 3, with much of the truth revealed but reconciliation still a hopeful vision. Making it a reality will be the work of all Canadians. We will need to unlearn racist ideas, relearn a history that did not tell the whole story and foster new relationships. But reconciliation also requires huge changes in indigenous communities where dramatic inequities continue to exist, as highlighted by your editorial. Until First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples experience the same level of health, education and social services as others in Canada, reconciliation will remain a noble aspiration. Jennifer Henry, executive director, KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives

May 8, 2015 Throughout National Nursing Week – May 11 to 17, 2015 – HEU salutes the dedicated professionalism our nursing members bring to health care’s front lines. We are proud to represent more than 1,400 licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered nurses (RNs), who work in B.C.’s residential care homes, supporting seniors and others who require round-the-clock care. “Every day, HEU nurses are making a huge difference in the lives of patients and residents throughout B.C. And they’re doing it under very difficult conditions,” says the union’s secretary-business manager Jennifer Whiteside. “Like others on the patient care team, they’re dealing with chronic short staffing, increasingly unsafe working conditions, and ongoing threats to their job security from private owners and operators in long-term care.” In the face of those and other challenges Whiteside says, “We’re with our nurses, every step of the way, fighting for fair contracts that value their work, improve the care, and make our health care facilities safer for workers and residents ” As part of nursing' week, LPN Day is celebrated on May 13. And as a division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), HEU stands with tens of thousands of nurses across the country to mark National Nursing Week.

May 14, 2015

VICTORIA – The voices of 12,423 British Columbians were heard at the provincial legislature this morning with the tabling of a petition calling on government to halt the Interior Health Authority’s plan to privatize hospital laundry services in 11 communities. A delegation of Hospital Employees’ Union laundry workers presented their petition to NDP MLAs Michelle Mungall, Jennifer Rice and opposition health critic Judy Darcy on the steps of the legislature, prior to being tabled during Question Period.

The Globe and Mail Mon May 25 2015

This is part of a series about improving research, diagnosis and treatment. There's a bogeyman that terrorizes Jacob Hartley. Jacob calls this monster "Bugger." Jacob has always been an eccentric child, his mother Jennifer Hartley says. But his vivid imagination took a dark turn around the age of nine; he became fixated with the idea that other people's DNA could infect him and change who he was.

June 30, 201512:00 - 1:00 pm EDT 

Are you a forward-thinking healthcare executive impatient with the current state of care? If so, we invite you to join a free informational call jointly hosted by the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) on the IHI Leadership Alliance. For the past year, CFHI has been the only Canadian member of the IHI Leadership Alliance and have found the content and the opportunity to interact with healthcare leaders across the border to be very interesting and enlightening.

Stephen Samis, Vice President, Programs, CFHIJennifer Verma, Senior Director, Collaboration for Innovation and Improvement, CFHIGöran Henriks, Chief Executive of Learning and Innovation, Qulturum, Region Jönköping CountySaranya Loehrer, MD, MPH, Executive Director, IHI

March 19, 2015

When Jennifer* was laid off, it wasn’t paying the mortgage she was worried about – it was paying her drug bill. The $24,000-a-year cost of Enbrel, used to treat her rheumatoid arthritis, had been covered by her employer. She remembers sitting in the boardroom being told she had been let go, thinking, “I’m going to be crippled because I can’t afford this drug,” she says. “I started freaking out. All I could process was, I’m not going to have a job – how am I going to pay $24,000 a year for a drug?” She’s among the 10% of Canadians who have difficulty affording their drugs. It’s an issue that’s been discussed frequently in the past, and thrust back into the spotlight by Eric Hoskins, Ontario’s Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, who recently announced his support for a national pharmacare program.