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Dissolve CCACs: Nurses association
Sunday, October 14th, 2012
October 6, 2012
… calling for 14 CCACs… to be dissolved because they are top-heavy with administration costing the system millions of dollars… The RNAO is proposing the 3,500 case managers working for CCACs — 3,000 registered nurses and 500 social workers and other health professionals — be transferred to the primary care system under the direction of the 14 Local Health Integration Networks in the province.
Tags: budget, Health, mental Health, standard of living, tax
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Rogers death was a turning point
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
August 10, 2011
The drug overdose death of Kimberly Rogers, 40, who was eight months pregnant, resulted in province-wide debate, a coroner’s inquest and a new direction for the health unit… Medical officer of health Dr. Penny Sutcliffe testified at the 2002 inquest… addressing the inadequacies of social assistance rates to fund a healthy diet and other issues relating to welfare. About that time, the health unit began to focus on the link between the social and economic health of a community and the physical health of its citizens
Tags: corrections, ideology, mental Health, poverty, women
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