Hospital-Institutional

Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences in Whitby, Ont., has unveiled a campaign to introduce mental health curriculum into high schools and increase awareness of adolescent mental illness to the communities it serves.

A lack of operating room time and changes in patient case loads are two of the most commonly reported factors behind increased wait times for medical care and surgical procedures, concludes a report released by the Fraser Institute.

In order to ease patients through the often overwhelming recovery process, and reduce medication-related problems, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Illinois has begun implementing a two-phase program designed to improve communication between inpatient pharmacists and patients during their stay and after discharge.

Shriners Hospitals for Children – Canada and The Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre have established a joint national clinic to evaluate and treat children with congenital chest wall deformities.

The Ontario government will provide $625,000 annually for the next five years to Baycrest to establish a long-term care home centre of learning, research and innovation.

Health Shared Services BC (HSSBC) has chosen Lexicomp to provide 57 acute sites and 5,769 acute beds with two independent drug information resources – Lexi-Drugs and the American Hospital Formulary Service (AHFS) – through Lexicomp Online.

Community access hospitals would provide an alternative to towns that are currently facing hospital closure due to a shortage of physicians, according to a proposal by the Saskatchewan NDP.