Healthcare Management

MISSISSAUGA, ONT. _ The Credit Valley Hospital and Trillium Health Centre has reported it is in a strong financial position, filing a balanced budget and reporting a surplus of $5.3 million for the past year while at the same time dealing with increased volumes and demand for services.

TORONTO _ St. John’s Rehab Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have agreed to merge voluntarily into a single, comprehensive healthcare provider.

Province committing $22.2 million to create 190 new nurse practitioner positions over the next three years.

Unionized nurses figure significantly among those making $100,000 or more as longtime staff move up job scale.

Budget tightening has cut into the number of nursing graduates hired into Capital Health’s gradually aging nurse workforce, says the health authority’s CEO.

Hundreds of the province’s nurses—members of the burgeoning baby boom crowd—could retire this year.

Compensation, merit pay rose 2.3 per cent over the last 12 months.

HIROC, the Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada, marks its 25th anniversary this year.