Q-jumpers-The Health Myth Busters: B.C.’s New Twist in Delivering Health Care: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Performance funding - hospitals to get paid for reducing wait lines - no more block funding . --- seems like a solution whose time has come form the Globe and Mail .
Thursday, April 29, 2010
B.C.’s New Twist in Delivering Health Care: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy
B.C.’s New Twist in Delivering Health Care: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy
A useful read form the globe and mail
So much about health care doesn’t make sense when you think about it. Taxpayers get exercised when it’s revealed a politician has spent $40 on a bottle of champagne at some dinner yet they demand little accountability around the billions of dollars spent each year on health care. Politicians, meantime, are discovering the obdurate realities of providing a service for which demand is virtually unappeasable.
A novel idea -no more hospital block funding - hospital to get paid on performance delivery that reduce wait lines . What will they think of next ....... wow . QJ
A useful read form the globe and mail
So much about health care doesn’t make sense when you think about it. Taxpayers get exercised when it’s revealed a politician has spent $40 on a bottle of champagne at some dinner yet they demand little accountability around the billions of dollars spent each year on health care. Politicians, meantime, are discovering the obdurate realities of providing a service for which demand is virtually unappeasable.
A novel idea -no more hospital block funding - hospital to get paid on performance delivery that reduce wait lines . What will they think of next ....... wow . QJ
Interesting notes on clean
Antibacterial madness could be killing us
We're so clean we're filthy. In fact, we're washing our way towards
illness and death.
Triclosan, an antibacterial agent found in soaps, detergents and even
clothing, has been sucking the human endocrine system dry. And as it
goes to work on your body, it's also helping to kill off common
bacteria... while allowing powerful new ones to rise.
What's truly amazing... what's really shocking... what should tell you
everything you need to know about this chemical... is that it's
actually a pesticide, not a soap.
You've probably been washing with it for years, then eating with your
"clean" hands.
The feds now say they're concerned about this chemical... but don't
wait for them to save your skin. The FDA has been working on rules for
the use of triclosan for 38 years -- so if they haven't figured it out
by now, you're on your own.
Here's what you need to know -- what even the feds already admit to:
This stuff is so dangerous it kills fish when it gets into the water.
And it's in the water -- because it's literally everywhere. Triclosan
can be found in everything from clothing to cutting boards. Pretty
much anything with the word "antibacterial" screaming from the label
has triclosan in it.
It's so common it's in the urine of 75 percent of the population.
And yet people keep buying up that antibacterial soap in the mistaken
belief that it must be better. After all, it costs more... so it must
be good, right?
Wrong!
Studies have repeatedly proven that antibacterial soaps are no better
than ordinary soaps.
That shouldn't surprise anyone past a certain age. We grew up without
this stuff, and didn't face anything like the bacterial threat running
rampant today.
So if you're looking to stay clean, just do what we did -- warm water
and plain old soap.
99 and 44/100 percent pure,
William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.
--
Thursday, April 15, 2010
New nurses are just for senior patients - Chatham Daily News - Ontario, CA
New nurses are just for senior patients - Chatham Daily News - Ontario, CA
Seniors represent 25 per cent of all emergency department visits and approximately 50 per cent of all hospitalized seniors are admitted through the emergency department.
Seniors represent 25 per cent of all emergency department visits and approximately 50 per cent of all hospitalized seniors are admitted through the emergency department.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Good Hospital News Laughter is good medicine
Articles Hospital News
Humour and smiles work anywhere including progressive hospitals
http://www.hospitalnews.com/modules/magazines/mag.asp?ID=3&IID=138&AID=1699
Over the years, a multitude of physiological and psychological benefits have been attributed to laughter as “the best medicine.” One study frequently cited seems to indicate that cortisol, the stress hormone, was reduced among participants in a humour program. However, its small sample size of young healthy adult subjects makes it difficult to generalize the results, particularly to pediatric and senior populations.
http://www.gestalt.on.ca/ accepting applications for caring humourists
Humour and smiles work anywhere including progressive hospitals
http://www.hospitalnews.com/modules/magazines/mag.asp?ID=3&IID=138&AID=1699
Over the years, a multitude of physiological and psychological benefits have been attributed to laughter as “the best medicine.” One study frequently cited seems to indicate that cortisol, the stress hormone, was reduced among participants in a humour program. However, its small sample size of young healthy adult subjects makes it difficult to generalize the results, particularly to pediatric and senior populations.
http://www.gestalt.on.ca/ accepting applications for caring humourists
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
ALC's - 19% of Hospital population -a bureaucratic nightmare
This is disgraceful.
In many ways we have a wonderful health system. We have skilled doctors and caring nurses who go the extra mile for patients.
Sadly, to access that care, patients often have to negotiate a bureaucratic nightmare of red tape.
The government has downloaded responsibility for health spending to these faceless LHINs.
At the very time when our parents and grandparents most need their loved ones around them, they are shipped off to an unfamiliar place to die among strangers.
People who have lived and worked all their lives in communities such as these should be allowed the dignity of being cared for close to the family, close to those who love them, in their final days.
This is a heartless bureaucracy gone crazy. You can't ship frail old people out of town just so you can balance the books. christina.blizzard@sunmedia.ca
In many ways we have a wonderful health system. We have skilled doctors and caring nurses who go the extra mile for patients.
Sadly, to access that care, patients often have to negotiate a bureaucratic nightmare of red tape.
The government has downloaded responsibility for health spending to these faceless LHINs.
At the very time when our parents and grandparents most need their loved ones around them, they are shipped off to an unfamiliar place to die among strangers.
People who have lived and worked all their lives in communities such as these should be allowed the dignity of being cared for close to the family, close to those who love them, in their final days.
This is a heartless bureaucracy gone crazy. You can't ship frail old people out of town just so you can balance the books. christina.blizzard@sunmedia.ca
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