About 10 years after starting a family medicine practice, the 41-year-old physician will close her Riverside Drive office in early July, leaving some 1,500 patients in search of a family doctor. That search may not be easy.
‘We are absolutely destroyed’: Health workers facing burnout, even as COVID levels ease.
Hospitals across Ontario have been warning of the impacts of nursing shortages for months, and now rural health-care systems in the northwest are starting to feel the effects.
Geneva, Switzerland; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; 24 Jan 2022 – A new report titled Sustain and Retain in 2022 and Beyond: The Global Nursing Workforce and the COVID-19 Pandemic, has revealed how the COVID-19 pandemic has made the fragile state of the global nursing workforce much worse, putting the World Health Organization’s (WHO) aim of Universal Health Coverage at serious risk.…
Sudbury’s Health Sciences North (HSN) hospital is being hit hard by the pandemic. As of noon on Monday, there are seven separate COVID-19 outbreaks at the hospital, more than have occurred at any other time in the past. All of the seven outbreaks have occurred this month. At the same time, there are 70 confirmed COVID cases at the HSN,…
TORONTO — Hundreds of Ontario workers in hospitals and long-term care could be off the job in the coming weeks because they did not get vaccinated against COVID-19, further complicating what advocates call a “perfect storm” of staff shortages. The president of a union representing workers in long-term care, hospitals and retirement homes said the staffing problem, driven by low wages, lack of…
When the Clinton Public Hospital emergency department had to close its doors on the August long weekend because it didn’t have enough nurses to operate, Holly Braecker was embarrassed. “I mean, we work so hard, and it felt like we kind of let the community down that day,” said Braecker, a registered nurse who, four years into her career, is…
With case numbers shooting up in Ontario, Alberta and B.C., health experts worry that Canada could be going into its worst wave of COVID-19 yet, unless governments act now to stop it. “We’re in big trouble,” said Dr. Joe Vipond, an emergency physician in Calgary and co-founder of Masks4Canada. His calculations show that Alberta’s case numbers are doubling roughly every 11 days.…
The Biden administration’s decision to start authorizing third doses of Covid-19 vaccine in September is being met with bafflement, concern, and even anger from a number of immunologists, vaccinologists, and people steeped in the normal way such decisions are made. Many flat-out challenged the need for booster doses at this time. Others questioned the morality of administering third shots to Americans when…