When Susan Critch first learned about the Wasaga Beach Community Garden through the South Georgian Bay Community Health Centre she planned to grow produce. She did, but she also harvested another experience.
In Canada, Aboriginal Traditional Healing Programs have never been captured in an Electronic Medical Record (EMR), that is, until now. Thanks to the leadership of a working group chaired by Anishnawbe Health Toronto, 73 codes that aim to capture traditional healing practices were developed and are now available through AOHC’s instance of Nightingale on Demand (NOD).
In a previous issue of Voices, we featured Grand River Community Health Centre’s migrant worker clinics. Grand River CHC and Quest CHC were both funded by the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN) for two year pilot projects.
The Shift the Conversation conference will highlight these two case studies through a workshop presentation (description below).
TORONTO, Nov. 21, 2014 – The Liberal government’s announcement that it is taking steps to put the brakes on medical tourism in Ontario is being greeted as welcome news by the coalition of health organizations that has been calling for the government to end the practice.
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Medical tourism conjures up destinations like India and Brazil, but two Toronto hospitals want foreigners to think of Canada for surgeries and cancer treatment. Toronto's Sunnybrook and University Health Network (UHN) hospitals are accepting — and charging — foreign patients, yet refusing to disclose key details about their medical tourism programs, which has raised concerns among medicare advocates.