OPSEU Diablogue: Home care reform: how wrong are these incentives?

By opseudiablogue, on May 6, 2013, at 4:15 pm

We probably wouldn’t have believed it had we not received the documents outlining the new plan for specialized home care funding. It’s staggering in its ability to further complicate administration of home care and create so-called “efficiencies” for which the … Continue reading →

 
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False positive: private profit in Canada's health care: Fragmentation, Private Profit and Home Phlebotomy

By Ross Sutherland, on December 20, 2012, at 2:46 pm

Every day there are stories of how the fragmentation of health care hurts patients. A few, when a patient dies, make the media. Most often fragmentation causes small inconveniences, but there are many and they affect patients in very real ways.

December 19th’s story is about a patient with a serious chronic illness. She lives at home and manages her illness fairly well. Monitoring her condition requires weekly blood work which is taken by a home care nurse through a PIC line, a semi-permanent intravenous access port. She then walks the blood a fairly (Read more…)

 
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