Tag: health care administration

A closer look at Mecklenburg County’s community resource centers

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The centers will provide health care, food assistance, legal services, workforce development, and more services to impoverished areas.

CHARLOTTE, NC — Mecklenburg County is building more community resource centers to seek solutions regarding the lack of health care in its underserved, impoverished areas.

Areas deemed “corridors of opportunity” in Charlotte, like Beatties Ford Road and Sugar Creek Road, struggling with food deserts, violence, and lack of resources.

“Your zip code does matter as it relates to your ability to maintain your health in Mecklenburg County,” CEO of Care Ring Tchernavia Montgomery said.

Care Ring is a nonprofit that provides health

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Researchers warn of bias as Montreal hospitals to use AI to reduce wait time

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Artificial intelligence researchers say a Montreal hospital’s plan to reduce emergency room wait times with an AI algorithm is an appropriate use of the technology — if it’s done carefully.

The Center hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), one of the city’s two main hospital networks, is testing an artificial intelligence algorithm intended to help administrators plan emergency room staffing and accelerate the admission of patients.

The health center says the AI ​​system will use data from the past 20 years to predict when its emergency rooms will be particularly busy, allowing the network to increase staffing levels on certain

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Free Online Coaching Clinic – PHE America

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To Register for FREE: https://forms.gle/WAzijkF4qMmxcdCC6

Don’t miss Georgia Southern Coaching Education’s next FREE online coaching clinic on Thursday 1/19/23 at 7pm eastern in partnership with the Minority Coaches Association of Georgia.

SPEAKERS & TOPICS:

SaJason FinleyMS, SCCC, USAW-II, RPR-I, FMS, PN-I
Role: Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Central Phenix-City HS
Topic: 4 Pillars Mindset, Movement, Nutrition, Recovery

Bridget MeltonEd.D., CSCS*D, TSAC-F*D, CEP, cPT, FMS 2
Role: Professor at Georgia Southern
Topic: Concepts of Improving Upper Body Mobility

Joseph Myricks, M.Ed, USAW Level 1
Role: Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Alexander High School
Topic: Do The Most:

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LETTER: Guelph health care needs serious attention

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‘Our local politicians should prioritize efforts to rectify this very sad situation. Until then, here is the remedy….don’t get sick!’

GuelphToday received the following letter to the editor from Rick Ferraro regarding the state of Guelph’s healthcare system.

Over the last week, three acquaintances have been rushed to the Guelph General Hospital for assistance for life threatening occurrences. While the attentiveness of the nurses and staff were wonderful, the accommodations were not.

None were able to be given a room and one was transferred to the COVID area due to lack of proper accommodations. As I have said before, our

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Rising backlash over BC’s Invoice 36

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As British Columbia’s health-care system verges on collapse, provincial lawmakers have enacted sweeping adjustments to the oversight of medical professionals in a shock transfer staff are denouncing as an pointless, years-long transition ripe for potential political interference.

When hospitals and docs’ places of work started seeing an onslaught of sick sufferers this fall, politicians had been busy passing Invoice 36, new laws merging faculties but in addition essentially altering how these faculties would operate going ahead.

Regulatory faculties oversee whether or not technical requirements {and professional} tips are adopted for health-care personnel together with nurses, docs, psychologists and pharmacists.

Complaints

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