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Canadaâs primary method of funding hospitals, which is administered by the provinces, is outdated, expensive, and contributes to inadequate health-care services and outcomes for patients, says a new study by the Fraser Institute.
Nadeem Esmail says in
Money Following Patients: A Better Way to Pay for Universally Accessible Hospital Care that Canadaâs decades-old method of giving hospitals lump sums or global payments, regardless of how many patients they treat and the quality of services they provide, is inefficient and costly.
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Amsterdam, April 29, 2021 - The clinical presentation and underlying biology of Parkinson s disease (PD) varies significantly, but attempts to cluster cases into a limited number of subtypes have questionable applicability and relevance, reports the international Task Force for PD Subtypes in the
Journal of Parkinson s Disease. Their systematic review of studies reporting a subtyping system for the first time concludes that new approaches are needed that acknowledge the individual nature of the disease and are more aligned with personalized medicine.
In 2018, the International Parkinson s Disease and Movement Disorders Society (MDS) convened the Task Force for PD Subtypes to critically appraise available PD subtyping studies and to provide guidance for the design and conduct of future studies.
Field hospital set to open at Sunnybrook; GTA hospitals transferring hundreds of patients
by Michael Ranger
Last Updated Apr 20, 2021 at 8:06 am EDT
Sunnybrook COVID-19 Mobile Health Unit on March 10, 2021. Daniel Berry | CityNews
A new field hospital in Toronto is getting ready to start accepting transferred patients this week.
As the mobile unit at Sunnybrook Hospital prepares to open, hundreds of patients in just the past two weeks have reportedly been transferred from hot spot hospitals to other parts of the province to free up desperately needed beds.
GTA hospitals now overflowing with COVID patients have transferred over 550 patients to other areas of the province.
The magic of caring for others in crisis: Q&A with UHN social worker Laurel Franks
Plus, what she hopes participants take away from UHN’s Give A Shift event
As a social worker in Toronto Western Hospital’s COVID unit, Laurel Franks says there is no such thing as a typical day. Working with an interdisciplinary medical team, Laurel addresses patient needs from the beginning through to the end of their hospital stay, and even making plans for discharge. “I work to find a way to really balance their psycho-social needs. Sorting their home care, preparing them for isolation and compiling applications for their rehabilitation hospital admissions after they have been in the ICU for a month.” It’s an all-hands-on-deck approach she credits as something she feels University Health Network (UHN), where she’s worked for more than four years, reinforces and supports.
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A 60-year-old COVID-19 patient fights for his life, desperately gasping for air as health-care staff provide life saving medical care in an emergency situation in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on April 13, 2021. The patient was intubated and put on a ventilator successfully.
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