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Interior Health praises Vernon for work on supportive housing, complex care – Vernon News

19/06/2023binomo

IH heaps praise on Vernon

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Turning Points’ My Place 2 facility in Vernon.

Interior Health is praising Vernon for its leadership on supportive housing.

A letter from IH CEO Susan Brown to mayor Victor Cumming expresses “heartfelt gratitude to you and the council for your unwavering advocacy and dedication to fostering community partnerships.”

The letter is included in the agenda package for Monday’s council meeting.

In it, Brown says Vernon’s efforts “have been instrumental in developing safe and supportive housing for community members in Vernon and its surrounding areas.”

Brown notes the mission at Interior Health “is

A closer look at Mecklenburg County’s community resource centers

17/06/2023binomo

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

Help Revise the National PE Standards – PHE America

08/03/2023binomo

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School districts across the country rely on SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education in order to develop their own standards, frameworks and curricula.

As part of the ongoing standards revision process, SHAPE America’s National Physical Education Standards Task Force has tirelessly gathered research and best practices from education experts around the world, and has collected feedback from the HPE community. Based on the feedback from the first round of Public Review and Comment, SHAPE America, and the National Physical Education Standards Task Force have developed proposed Student Attributes and Draft Standards, which are now available

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

27/02/2023binomo

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

Ontario ER, urgent care center to temporarily close amid labor shortages

30/01/2023binomo

By Staff

The Canadian Press

Posted December 29, 2022 9:15 am

A hospital in southwestern Ontario says it will close its emergency department overnight Thursday, the latest in a number of recent temporary ER and urgent care center closures in the province.

Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance did not cite a reason for the Clinton Public Hospital’s closure in its announcement, but the organization has repeatedly pushed to temporarily close three of its community hospital ERs, including in Clinton, Ont., this year due to staffing pressures.

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