Emergency Medicine

Shoreline Medical has a unique funding model having begun as a non-profit society and achieved charitable status.

When Alfred Aquilina brought his wife to the long-term care facility that would be her new home, he was carrying her suitcase and a heavy load of emotions.

Alberta is the seventh province to sign on, after the four Atlantic provinces, Ontario and Manitoba.

Manitoba becomes the the sixth province to sign onto a new healthcare deal proposed by Ottawa earlier this month. Ontario and the four Atlantic provinces signed Thursday.

Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in Alberta use funding to hire nurses, counsellors, physiotherapists and other staff depending on their patients' needs.

The New Democrat government says it changed the Mental Health Act last spring to help people get care during a mental health crisis, while respecting their legal rights.

A panel of paramedics, nurses, emergency room doctors, addictions workers, and advocates from the Ontario Nurses Association and the Ontario Health Coalition spoke at the Feb. 9 forum.

A statement of claim filed Tuesday against the health authority and the ER physician on shift at the time of Holthoff’s death names her late husband and her three children as plaintiffs.