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Thank you for your interest in “Our Private” Clinic. The Comprehensive Health Assessment is a one-time check which is completed in 4 to 5 hours. Currently, we have openings within the next two weeks. I have attached a brochure for your review of the tests which are completed during the Assessment. The cost of the Assessment is $1,895. We are located downtown and we have affiliates in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and New York. If you are interested in year-round access to our clinic which includes the annual Comprehensive Health Assessment, you can enroll in our Membership Plan for $2,295 +GST(.05) = $2,409.75. The monthly payments would be $200.81. Each additional family member is $2,195.
Announced May 29, 2008. British Columbia Ministry of Health and the New Zealand Ministry of Health to share information and innovations in health service to maximize the health of British Columbians and New Zealanders. Released on May 30, 2008. Murray Martin and Cliff Nordal, two Canadian CEOs set off to Australia and New Zealand to audit the parallel private/public systems that have emerged in those countries. See: Our Journey to Improve Canada's Healthcare System
The Conference Board reports that: Healthcare – Still Leads Occupations in Highest Demand. Healthcare practitioners (219,000) and Management (191,200) are the two occupations with the most number of ads posted online. Report issued June 1, 2008. Longwoods online recruiting site can be found here.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: [The honors are announced and awarded in November at HealthAchieve2008]
1. Excellence in Nursing Leadership
2. Improving the Patient Experience
3. The Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education
Graduate students. Check this out: Neuroscience at York.
Make Ron Dunn Sweat. Click here.
Model of Business as Sport or War. Joseph D'Cruz. Download PDF.
Feel bloated, tired, overweight, unhealthy and toxic. Does your colon crust over with undigested food? Then you need to know: Is there any truth to the advertisements? (PDF)
This week’s Health Edition sifts through thousands of items from news sources, governments and Hansard to bring you a weekly summary of theThe Conference Board reports that: Healthcare – Still Leads Occupations in Highest Demand. Healthcare practitioners (219,000) and Management (191,200) are the two occupations with the most number of ads posted online. Report issued June 1, 2008. Longwoods online recruiting site can be found here.
In May 2008 Longwoods.com served 604,047 documents to 253,114 visitors
Top 10 longwoods.com accessed documents/pages for the month of May 2008
1. Longwoods Healthcare JobSheet
2. Transforming Healthcare Organizations: Brian Golden
3. Transitions in healthcare
4. Governance, Health Policy Implementation and the Added Value of Regionalization: Nassera Touati, Danièle Roberge, Jean-Louis Denis, Raynald Pineault, Linda Cazale, Dominique Tremblay
5. The HIT Report from KLAS: Clinical Automation in the Physician Office: FOCUS: e-Prescribing/Ambulatory EMR 2005
6. About Us (Information about Longwoods)
7. Longwoods HealthcareBoard (information about our learning programs)
8. Recruitment Portal
9. Longwoods Healthcare Awards
10. Influencing Drug Prices through Formulary-Based Policies: Lessons from New Zealand: Steve Morgan, Gillian Hanley, Meghan McMahon, Morris Barer
Alberta Medical Association appears to endorse the new direction for Alberta’s health care system “an approach the AMA has long promoted – a provincial framework for policy, standards and outcomes while allowing local flexibility in meeting the requirements.” For more information Download PDF.
Some ideas from the new Ontario Medical Association President Dr. Ken Arnold: See his complete inaugural presentation here (PDF).
1. “Self diagnosis” can be blamed on “our neighbours to the south, or perhaps . . . WebMD”
2. Other healthcare providers are competitors. “Our government seems to believe that nurse practitioner clinics are an answer. I respectfully disagree. As the best trained partner in a healthcare team, physicians need to maintain best care status with patients.”, and
3. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (set up to protect and serve the public interest) should listen more carefully to the association. “We need to advocate for a more inclusive CPSO.”
In the meantime: Ontario pharmacists could soon prescribe drugs
Ontario Medical Association responds to the Methadone Maintenance Practices Task Force Report. Click here.
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RECOMMENDED READING
Healthcare Quarterly
A Visit Down Under: Our Journey to Improve Canada's Healthcare System
Murray Martin and Cliff Nordal
HealthcarePapers
Parallel Payers, Privatization and Two-Tier Healthcare in Canada
Alan Davidson
Nursing Leadership
Nursing Workforce Utilization: An Examination of Facilitators and Barriers on Scope of Practice
Nelly D. Oelke, Debbie White, Jeanne Besner, Diane Doran, Linda McGillis Hall, Phyllis Giovannetti
Healthcare Policy
Sequestered Evidence: Inaccessible Findings from Health Services and Policy Research
Brian Hutchison
Electronic Healthcare
Clinical Information Systems: Understanding and Preventing Their Premature Demise
Liette Lapointe and Suzanne Rivard
World Health & Population
Assessment of Socio-economic Status in the Context of Food Insecurity: Implications for Field Research
Shannon Doocy and Gilbert Burnham
Manage Patient Information More Effectively
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - Toronto
Dr. Alan Hudson
Dr. Alan Hudson is Lead of Access to Services/Wait Times for the Health Results Team, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
Topic: The Future of Healthcare Governance in Ontario
Location: Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HP Canada, HPME - University of Toronto, Microsoft Canada, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare
October 22, 2008 – Toronto
Matt Anderson
Matt Anderson is the CEO - Toronto Central LHIN
Topic: Exceptional Patient Centred Healthcare: integrated, collaborative, accessible and accountable. The case for technology.
Location: Toronto
Sponsors: ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HP Canada, HPME, University of Toronto, Ontario Hospital Association, Philips Healthcare
Other confirmed Chiefs for 2008/2009 series of Breakfast with the Chiefs (dates TBD)
Dr. Vivek Goel, founding President and CEO of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion
Ida Goodreau, President and CEO for Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)
For more information on upcoming speakers or to view past presentations click here.
See our most recent Breakfast with the Chiefs video: Pablo Rivero and Tom Closson. Pablo Rivero, Senior Advisor, Health Innovation, Calgary Health Region and Tom Closson, President & CEO, Ontario Hospital Association.
Supported by: Longwoods Publishing with ACAHO, Accenture, CGI, HP Canada, IBM Canada, Microsoft Canada, HPME, University of Toronto, Ontario Hospital Association
The small print: Subscribers do have more options. If you are a personal journal subscriber and represent public healthcare management, practice, education, research or policy you can attend any and all of the breakfasts. If you are a member of a commercial / service organization you have other options. Please contact Susan Hale for more information. Not yet a member, but would like to join Breakfast with the Chiefs? Contact Lina Lopez, for more information.
To see the photo archives click here. To see our video archives click here.
June 12, 2008: Toronto, ON. 2nd Annual Patient Safety & Quality Academic Day: Advancing an Academic Approach to Patient Safety and Quality Improvement for Clinicians. The program will describe and identify enablers and challenges to developing a patient safety culture in hospitals; outline difficulties in implementation of patient safety and quality improvement projects; identify methods and opportunities to incorporate patient safety and quality activities into academic career development. For details click here.
June 17, 2008: Toronto, ON. Eating the Elephant: A Workshop for Ontario Hospitals Preparing to Meet the Provincial Reporting Requirements for CLI, VAP & SSI. The workshop objectives include: to prepare to meet the conditions of provincial reporting requirements related to the Safer Healthcare Now! Interventions; to integrate the clinical content of the interventions with established quality improvement methods; to share experiences among Ontario clinical teams working on the same interventions. For details, Download PDF or contact Tanya Flanagan.
June 22 – 24, 2008: Toronto, ON. Knowledge and Inspiration, Les connaissances et l’inspiration 2008. Join Ontario’s Community Care Access Centres and their Health Partners for an inspiring conference featuring Deepak Chopra, Roméo Dallaire, Shirley Douglas and thought-provoking speakers: exhibits & demonstrations by innovative providers and much more! Details: http://www.oaccac.on.ca
August 25-29, 2008: Vancouver, BC. 26th International System Safety Conference. The ISSC 2008 conference will provide evidence-informed, practical knowledge about how best to integrate new knowledge and practical applications of recent thinking about methods to achieve enhanced safety. The conference features opinion leaders from the fields of high reliability, resilience engineering and human factors including Richard Cook, a physician, educator, and researcher at the University of Chicago. The conference usually draws people from risk critical industries, such as aviation, the petro-chemical and nuclear power industries, and the military; and has increasingly been introducing themes of specific interest to health care. For details click here.
September 17-18, 2008: Toronto, ON. Sterilization Forum Presented jointly by CSA and Accreditation Canada, this two-day forum will provide healthcare decision makers, administrators and their reprocessing staff with the knowledge, tools and operational recommendations to help meet accreditation standards for sterile processing departments within their facilities. The Sterilization Forum will explore key themes by highlighting issues, best practices and lessons learned. For more information click here.
For our complete list of conferences and events go here.
Ontario Hospital Association conferences www.OHA.com/conferences
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario conferences click here.
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