Memo suggests ER doctors calling in sick at 2 Vancouver hospitals pay out of pocket to get shifts covered
An internal memo to emergency department staff at two Vancouver hospitals has suggested that doctors calling in sick pay half of the financial incentive in place to encourage others...
Hospitals and doctors are fed up with Medicare Advantage
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSaveGood morning. I’m Julie Appleby, a senior correspondent for KFF Health News who writes about health insurance, price...
U of T and partner hospitals are improving patient care with new data tools
Open this photo in gallery:Patients’ needs inform the priorities of researchers in the Toronto Academic Health Science Network, improving care at every hospital in the...
Thailand eyes more foreign patients as hospitals urge easier access
FILE PHOTO: A general view of Bangkok Hospital in Bangkok May 19, 2014. REUTERS/ Chaiwat Subprasom/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsBANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand is to...
Israel’s attacks on hospitals ‘should be investigated as war crimes’: HRW | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Health facilities and ambulances have protected status under international humanitarian law, Human Rights Watch affirms.Israel’s repeated attacks on medical facilities, health personnel and ambulances in...
Doug Ford government paying for-profit clinic more than hospitals for OHIP-covered surgeries, documents show
Premier Doug Ford's government gives a for-profit clinic more funding to perform certain OHIP-covered surgeries than it gives Ontario's public hospitals to perform the same...
Area hospitals report progress following cyber attack, set up hotline
Area hospitals impacted by a cyber attack last month have set up a hotline for concerned patients to call and released more details about patient...
‘We have nothing’: Families seek safety from bombs inside Gaza hospitals | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Gaza City — As bombs rain down upon neighbourhoods and refugee camps in Gaza, hundreds of Palestinian families are setting up temporary homes in an...
Doctors in Gaza Respond to Israeli Doctors Who Endorsed Bombing of Hospitals
Physicians who have been working for four weeks to save as many lives as possible from Israel's "complete siege" of Gaza, even as the healthcare...
Info from 5.6 million patient visits among data stolen in ransomware attack on Ontario hospitals
A database containing information on 5.6 million patient visits to Bluewater Health and the social insurance numbers of as many as 1,446 Chatham-Kent Health Alliance employees...