Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group was fined $75,000 after a nurse was stabbed by a patient at the Brockville Mental Health Centre.
Blog Post #1010 – Nova Scotia Panel Gives Recommendations
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Increasing Staff to address manpower shortages and enhancing access to health professionals were among the five recommendations and 22 action items that the minister’s expert advisory panel on long-term care delivered on January 15, 2019 to improve the quality of long-term care in Nova Scotia over the next two years.
Blog Post #984 – Opioid Guidelines Tightened in New Brunswick
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
WorkSafeNB has tightened guidelines for prescription opioids used by claimants who are recovering from occupational injuries.
Blog Post #982 – Improved Access to Benefits in Nova Scotia
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Frontline and emergency-response workers and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) will have easier access to workers’ compensation benefits starting from October 26, 2018, as changes to the Workers’ Compensation Act introduced last year no longer requires these workers to prove that their PTSD diagnosis is work-related.