It just got a little easier to find health-care services closer to home.
On Thursday, the Ontario government launched two new initiatives to improve access to health care, and hopefully relieve stress on the province’s emergency rooms.
Health Care Connect aims to help people find a family health-care provider.
Dr. Mark Mensour, emergency department lead with the North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), said the program aims Read the rest of this entry »

Thursday, November 6, 2008 1:44 PM CST
A benefit truck and tractor pull has been set for 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 at the Seneca Saddle Club Arena located at the corner of Hwy. U and Bethel Road. (1 mile west of Hwy. 43 on U Hwy.). Proceeds from the pull will go toward assisting with medical expenses for long time Seneca area resident, Zane Starr.
Zane was one of many in this area who endured the devastating tornado on May 10. Just a few months Read the rest of this entry »

Two Taiwanese mobile medical missions will depart Sunday for Haiti and Guatemala, respectively, in a bid to help the allied countries deal with the aftermath of recent natural disasters, the International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF) said Thursday.
The mobile medical missions, each to consist of physicians, surgeons, pharmacists and nurses from the Taipei-based Wan Fang Hospital and Taipei Medical University Hospital, Read the rest of this entry »

  Updated:
[November 22, 2008 ] :: 19:02:57
MEDICAL TEAMS, HOSPITALS STAND BY TO ASSIST WOUNDED PROTESTERS
BANGKOK, Nov 22 – More than 30 medical teams and 11 government hospitals in the Thai capital are on standby to provide emergency treatment to any wounded protesters of the anti-government People‘s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) as the group will rally at Parliament on Sunday and Monday to express opposition to any consideration of Read the rest of this entry »

KAILUA, Hawaii — President-elect
on Sunday announced the creation of a task force to bolster the standard of living of middle-class and working families in America, tapping Vice President-elect
to lead the effort with four members of the cabinet.
“Our charge is to look at existing and future policies across the board and use a yardstick to measure how they are impacting the working- and middle-class families,” Mr. Biden said Read the rest of this entry »

Tue, 03 Feb ‘09
Patients and families caught in a
health crisis requiring distant travel can find assistance through
a new program called Airlift Hope Southeast, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization that offers charitable and charitably-assisted medical
air transportation options in Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Airlift Hope Southeast functions as a regional arm of Mercy
Medical Airlift (MMA), Read the rest of this entry »

The Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the
has received a $1.7 million grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation to help primary care practices improve the quality and outcomes of health care for older adults with chronic illnesses.
The Lipitz Center will use the grant to help medical practices in eight states-to be selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)-to qualify for and participate in CMS’s three-year Read the rest of this entry »

BANGKOK, Nov 22 (TNA) — More than 30 medical teams and 11 government hospitals in the Thai capital are on standby to provide emergency treatment to any wounded protesters of the anti-government People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) as the group will rally at Parliament on Sunday and Monday to express opposition to any consideration of constitutional amendments by the House.
Public Health Minister Pol. Capt. Chalerm Yubamrung said he had ordered Read the rest of this entry »