Ontario’s Bill 7 allows hospitals to place discharged patients into long-term care homes not of their choosing or charge them $400 per day if they refuse.
Although when I started my journey in pharmacy, I had a pretty extensive health background, I knew nothing about pharmacy. The lack of knowledge about pharmacy and what pharmacists do remains one of the biggest challenges that we’re constantly working to overcome.
This is the first time the disease has circulated to a significant extent since pre-pandemic years and in contrast to influenza, it doesn’t follow a predictable pattern apart from resurging every few years.
They are part of a pilot project that Allison Bodnar, CEO of the Pharmacy Association of Nova Scotia, says has “transformed the way primary care is delivered in Nova Scotia.”
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences will now be using pharmacogenetic testing for patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.