Nurses and support workers at a west-end seniors supportive living home hit the picket lines Friday after bargaining talks broke down with the B.C.-based owner of the facility.
Ann Clwyd, a Labour MP advising the Coalition, has received thousands of letter from people worried about the poor care of their relatives in NHS hospitals.
Alberta Health Services has confirmed a dozen positions at the Stollery Children’s Hospital are being eliminated. However, AHS said the positions will be replaced.
Frustrated and worried health care workers at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) say only a radical reform of the way the teaching hospital is managed will salvage its reputation as an academic teaching hospital.
Staffed with more than 1,700 medical professionals, 324 beds and almost 500 volunteer staff, HDGH cares for well over 250,000 patients a year from a catchment area of 500,000 residents. The challenge CEO Ken Deane was concerned about patient flow and capacity issues that were contributing to poor ER and surgical wait times at HDGH.
Amid the gleaming walls and polished floors of the new hospital, an anachronism rests behind glass in a quiet corner near a bank of elevators. It's the uniform of a Second World War era nurse, Major Goldie Mae McCoy.
