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Today, Parliamentary Assistant John Fraser visited Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Pleasant Manor Retirement Village long-term care home. This is one of more than 300 long-term care homes that Ontario is helping redevelop over the next nine years. Through these enhancements, residents will benefit…
Ontario is investing more than $3.6 million in a new radiation treatment unit at the Stronach Regional Cancer Centre at Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket. More than 400 additional cancer patients from York Region and south Simcoe County will…
A study using undercover observers to check how often health-care workers wash their hands has offered powerful new evidence that Canadian hospitals’ much-vaunted hygiene rates are more illusion than reality. Medical students in the study who secretly monitored hand cleaning…
Several job postings at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre dated June 13 to 30, 2016: Decision Support Analyst – Decision Support (161370) – June 30 Data Analyst – Surgical Clinical Reviewer (161407) – June 22 Decision Support Consultant – Performance Measurement and Reporting (161725)…
The Cancer Screening Program is part of the Prevention and Cancer Control (P&CC) Portfolio at Cancer Care Ontario (CCO). P&CC brings together cancer prevention, screening, surveillance and research into a single organizational entity, while Cancer Screening focuses specifically on the…
The Pharmacoeconomics Research Unit is a research team that supports Cancer Care Ontario with timely, high quality, and relevant information to inform drug funding decisions. Development of economic evidence with practical application requires use of rigorous methodology, as well as…
The province and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) have reached a tentative four-year agreement that would, if ratified, strengthen the quality, access and timeliness of health care while providing a predictable physician services budget. The tentative agreement contains annual increases…
The Decision Support Specialist (DSS) is a key role within CritiCall supporting the overall strategic objectives and priorities of the Program. The DSS individual is responsible for the overall production, validation and standardization of reports, data dissemination (internal and external),…
The federal government has announced $382 million in new funding to implement Jordan’s Principle — the rule adopted by the House of Commons in 2007 ensuring equal access to health care and social services for First Nations children. The money will fund the Liberal government’s…
Apple wants to encourage millions of iPhone owners to register as organ donors through a software update that will add an easy sign-up button to the health information app that comes installed on every smartphone the company makes. CEO Tim…
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