Allison Holthoff

The Nova Scotia Health Authority is requesting that a lawsuit over the death of a patient late last year be dismissed, saying her death was not due to negligence on its part. The family of Allison Holthoff filed the civil lawsuit last…

The family of a Nova Scotia woman who died after a seven-hour wait at a Nova Scotia emergency room has launched a civil lawsuit against the province’s health authority. Allison Holthoff, a 37-year-old mother of three, died at the…

A Sydney, N.S. woman is organizing a rally to call on the province’s politicians to improve health care once and for all, as news of emergency department deaths make national headlines. “I’m doing it because I’m scared. I’m scared for…

The death of a Nova Scotia woman who waited seven hours at a Cumberland County hospital emergency department has prompted health-care advocates to wonder, “When is the breaking point?” On Monday, the husband of Allison Holthoff, 37,…