COPD: The Case for Building the Capacity of Pulmonary Rehabilitation January 2, 2012
Posted by admin in : Featured Articles , comments closedAlberta Breathes is a coalition of agencies and over 500 individuals working to improve lung health and decrease the burden of respiratory disease in Alberta.
Utilizing their existing resources such as CRE’s, the aim is partially to get funding for these skilled individuals and to improve the access to pulmonary rehab programs.
B.C. is in the same situation with the hospitals cutting back as opposed to providing funding for these programs. The health authorities have little vision and and cannot look at the “big” picture to the management of these patients.
Pharmaceutical companies are actively involved now with surprising little bias to help fill the needs. Obviously it would be optimal if the BC government and health authorities to step up to the management of COPD and Asthma, but very, very, little has been done.
Core patient services face deep cuts in Metro Vancouver, NDP says July 28, 2009
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VancouverSun
Residents of the Fraser Health region should prepare themselves for deep cuts to core patient-care services as the provincial government looks to absorb a projected $160-million funding shortfall, the NDP warned Monday.
Diabetes clinics in Delta and Mission, regional maternity and pediatric services, and seniors’ aid and mental health programs are all on the chopping block, NDP health critic Adrian Dix said.
Citing a leaked draft document that the government has acknowledged is genuine, Dix said the government is also considering closing operating rooms, reducing the number of elective surgeries, downgrading the emergency ward at Mission Memorial Hospital, and shutting acute-care beds and outpatient clinics.
“We’re talking about a serious blow to the long-term health of everybody living in the Fraser Health Authority,” Dix said. (more…)