SHAVER: Benefits for older doctors would curb health-care shortages
Across Canada, physicians and nurses are retiring prematurely; emergency departments are forced to close for days at a time.
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Across Canada, physicians and nurses are retiring prematurely; emergency departments are forced to close for days at a time.
“What the elders see while sitting the young ones standing on their toes won’t see.” – African proverb
The provincial government needs to take “swift, decisive action” to address the “dysfunction” of Alberta Health Services. “That also means repairing our relationship with nurses and doctors, it means replacing managers with frontline staff, it means attracting additional health professionals from around the world.” These were the words of Danielle Smith in her victory speech on Thursday, October 6. How can she reform the system without causing chaos?
A proposal last week by the N.C. Healthcare Association to the North Carolina General Assembly to modify certificate-of-need laws was more of a twig than an olive branch, according to Senate Leader Phil Berger, R- Rockingham.
As the North Carolina General Assembly plans to return to Raleigh Tuesday, The N.C. Healthcare Association has indicated a break in the standoff over Certificate of Need reform in Medicaid expansion.