Spotlight
December 04, 2019Racism and Geographical Barriers to Safe Care for Indigenous Communities
This commentary from Carrie Bourassa examines the inequitable access to healthcare services that Indigenous peoples in Canada face on a daily basis. Several recommendations to address physical and geographical access are included. "Get rid of the stereotypes and treat people with dignity and respect. The healthcare practitioners need to listen and hear what people are saying to them. They need to be respectful of other ways of being and doing things" - study participant. Full Article
Stay Tuned for more Breakfast with the Chiefs:
- Chris Power, CEO, CPSI
- Franklin Holtforster, CEO, Colliers Project Leaders
- Susan Fitzpatrick, Interim CEO, Ontario Health
- Jennifer Zelmer, President and CEO, CFHI
- Shirlee Sharkey, President and CEO, SE Health
Featured Articles
What Have We Learned from the Substudies?
Developing Competencies for Health System Impact: Early Lessons learned from the Health System Impact Fellows
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Articles
The Nursing Human Resource Planning Best Practice Toolkit: Creating a Best Practice Resource for Nursing Managers
Preventing and Managing Conflict: Vital Pieces in the Patient Safety Puzzle
Using SBAR to Communicate Falls Risk and Management in Inter-professional Rehabilitation Teams
Clinical Nurse Specialists and Nurse Practitioners: Title Confusion and Lack of Role Clarity
Interview with Kathleen MacMillan, Former Provincial Chief Nursing Officer
"Avoidable" Emergency Department Transfers from Long-Term Care Homes: A Brief Review
Employee (Dis)Engagement: Learning from Nurses who Left Organizational Jobs for Independent Practice
The Fraser Institute Wait Time Reports: Madness in the Method, but Method in the Madness
Making Aftercare More Than an Afterthought: Patient Follow-up after Emergency Department Discharge in Ontario
News
Innovative project launched using advanced digital technology to transform management of complex care for patients with heart failure
Continuum is a large-scale project developed by a partnership of CRCHUM, Greybox Solutions Inc., MEDTEQ and Boehringer Ingelheim Canada MONTREAL, Dec. 9, 2019 /CNW/ - Montreal's innovation profe [...]
Is a national pharmacare program any closer to reality? André Picard
2019-12-09 from theglobeandmail.com We’ve just had a federal election, a conference of provincial and territorial premiers and a Speech from the Throne, a trifecta for policy wonks. Has the fl [...]
Trudeau vague on scope of national pharmacare plan
2019-12-09 from thestar.com New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh says he can’t support the Liberal government’s Speech from the Throne because its pharmacare promise is too vagu [...]
Editor's Picks
The collection of papers in this special issue represents a response to a pan-Canadian consensus effort to modernize health services policy and research doctoral and post-doctoral training for greater health system impact. These modernization efforts have focused on preparing a cadre of Canada’s PhD graduates for success as leaders of evidence-informed health system innovation in settings that bridge the academy and the health system at the juncture of health policy, health service deliver [...]
