the patient

Glouberman nails it

management vs frontline

.......no need for comment here

for profit or not-for-profit

Nearly all Canadian physicians are for profit private providers so it cannot be the state of profit making, there must be other reasons to account for poorer care. Greater physician leadership and presence with these sites coupled with culture change is the way forward . Universal long term care and home care anyone?

care concerns in Ontario

the metaphor using children is strong but has never quite had the purchase in the minds of the public.

young and mentally ill and in LTC

we see the same trend, just how big is our tent?

farewell address

on the care of seniors

Duckett further accused the government of funding hospitals at the expense of care facilities for seniors. He said while other provinces were boosting funding for non-acute facilities, Alberta had reduced per-capita spending on long-term-care or assisted living facilities in the last decade.

AND not DNR

allow natural death, this is much too sensible

An apologia

" When asked how many acute care beds Calgary will need in five years, Duckett was quick to set straight such thinking: "You should start by saying: What is the best way of meeting people's needs?" he said. "If I were asked where I think the under-investment is most acute, it's actually in the community services.""

Rise and fall of Dr Duckett

"Quite frankly, since he's come to Alberta, he hasn't consulted widely with the key folks here. That's been one of his downfalls," says University of Calgary health policy expert Dr. Tom Noseworthy. While most people with Duckett's job might have consolidated their positions with alliances and advisers, Noseworthy says the CEO never learned the lay of the land in Alberta.

"He never surrounded himself with the kitchen cabinet of informal advisers with nothing to gain," Noseworthy says. "When he leaned back, there was nothing there."

One expensive cookie

A sad summary of the weeks AHS news