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Grandview hospital to suspend in-patient services for December due to staff shortages | CBC News
A hospital in a western Manitoba community is expected to suspend its in-patient services and hospital admissions next month because of critically low nursing staff, Prairie Mountain Health confirmed on Wednesday.Emergency department…
Some Winnipeg patients sick enough for hospital admission waiting days for in-patient bed | CBC News
Some patients deemed sick enough to be admitted to Winnipeg hospitals are waiting days in emergency wards for a bed in an in-patient ward.This admissions bottleneck, which doctors attribute to widespread staff shortages across the…
A rare look inside Halifax’s COVID-19 inpatient unit, and the lessons they’ve learned |…
At the height of the pandemic, Dr. Christy Bussey had to rent out an apartment just so she could be closer to the hospital.
“It was a very stressful time,” said Dr. Bussey, head of Halifax’s COVID-19 Inpatient Unit. “That was a very…
Number of Americans requiring inpatient care for eating disorders DOUBLED during the Covid pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a spike in patients needing treatment for eating disorders, a new study suggests.Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, found that the rate of people receiving inpatient treatment last…
Researchers find novel means of flagging inpatient pharmacy orders for intervention
Medication order errors are a significant, and preventable, public health problem. The widespread deployment of electronic health records and computerized order entry systems has largely reduced medication order errors and inefficiencies in…