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Statement from MAHCP President Jason Linklater on Budget 2024
Read Article: Statement from MAHCP President Jason Linklater on Budget 2024Budget 2024 acknowledges that allied health professionals can help provide high-quality care to more Manitobans, and to fix what’s broken in our system. Allied health professionals want to be there when they’re needed, to help move patients safely from hospital back to the community, freeing up beds and bringing down ER wait times. These initiatives…
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MEDIA ADVISORY – Budget 2024
Read Article: MEDIA ADVISORY – Budget 2024WHAT: On behalf of our 7,000+ highly specialized allied health members, Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals (MAHCP) President Jason Linklater will attend today’s provincial Budget 2024 introduction at the Legislative Building at 2:30 PM. Linklater will be available in the Rotunda immediately following the budget speech to share MAHCP’s perspectives on the proposed investments…
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HSC, Grace, Children’s Hospital MRI Wait Times Reach 30+ Weeks
Read Article: HSC, Grace, Children’s Hospital MRI Wait Times Reach 30+ WeeksToday, CAMRT-MB, the home for provincial association services for MRTs in Manitoba, issued a news release sounding the alarm on increasing MRI wait times in Manitoba. Read the media release.
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Meet Sharon, RSW: Driven by purpose
Read Article: Meet Sharon, RSW: Driven by purposeSharon Y., Registered Social Worker at Women’s Health Clinic, calls herself a “worker at heart,” and says that her career has been the result of opportunity, circumstance and getting behind causes that align with who she is at her core. “I started out in health care 26 years ago as a volunteer at Women’s Health…
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Statement from MAHCP President on HSC’s epilepsy monitoring unit
Read Article: Statement from MAHCP President on HSC’s epilepsy monitoring unitToday, Honourable Uzoma Asagwara, Minister of Health, Seniors and Long-term Care announced the addition of an adult epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) at HSC Winnipeg. The unit has four beds and is designed to be a place where patients who aren’t responding to medication can stay to see if other treatments can be explored, like surgery. In response…
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Meet Jasmine, RSW: Connecting with clients & caregivers during challenging times
Read Article: Meet Jasmine, RSW: Connecting with clients & caregivers during challenging timesA phone conversation with Jasmine M., Registered Social Worker with the WRHA’s Home Care Community Stroke Care Service, is inspiring. She’s full of life and brimming with energy, and you can tell immediately that she approaches her work with purpose and meaning. “I consider it a privilege to help clients and their caregivers adapt to…
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Meet Concordia Hospital Pharmacist Gurminder: Reading, researching, and writing ‘scrips
Read Article: Meet Concordia Hospital Pharmacist Gurminder: Reading, researching, and writing ‘scripsGurminder T. was just 16 years old when his older sister married a pharmacist, and he says that set him down the path to a career in pharmacy. “I really admire my brother-in-law; he is a positive role model and I look up to him. I decided then that I wanted to emulate his strengths…
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Meet Sherry & HSC’s Child Life Services Team: Creating a sense of normalcy for kids in hospital
Read Article: Meet Sherry & HSC’s Child Life Services Team: Creating a sense of normalcy for kids in hospitalA hospital can be a scary, anxiety-producing place for adults, so imagine what it must be like for a child facing a medical emergency, serious illness or prolonged treatment. At Children’s Hospital in the Health Sciences Centre in downtown Winnipeg, Child Life Specialist Sherry T. and her colleagues deliver this psychosocial service to meet the…
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Meet Lisa: Manitoba’s one-of-a-kind Registered Dietitian
Read Article: Meet Lisa: Manitoba’s one-of-a-kind Registered DietitianIn an age of proliferating online wellness influencers, food prep tip and life coaches, Registered Dietitians are in a whole other category. Registered Dietitian Lisa W. says people still confuse her unique professional role with that of a menu planner. As Manitoba’s only Registered Dietitian specialized in pediatric nephrology (working with children affected by kidney…
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A LifeLine for Echocardiograms
Read Article: A LifeLine for EchocardiogramsStaffing crisis causing unacceptably long and stressful waits for patients Most patients, when told they will have to wait up to a year for a scan of the heart, are likely to be quite concerned, fearful and anxious. It’s not a surprise they would be prepared to flee the province for an echocardiogram and pay…
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Meet Aylin: Get to know our LRO’s
Read Article: Meet Aylin: Get to know our LRO’sYou never know which direction life might take you. Aylin (pronounced Ileen) was attending university enrolled in nursing, while at the same time, working part-time as a health care aide and in a call centre as a customer service agent. Then everything changed. “The call centre’s director of human resources approached me with an invitation…
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NUPGE letter marking the two-year anniversary of the Ukraine invasion
Read Article: NUPGE letter marking the two-year anniversary of the Ukraine invasionOn behalf of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), which represents more than 425,000 workers across Canada, President Bert Blundon recently drafted a letter for The Honourable Mélanie Joly, PC, MP, Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine and ongoing concerns in the country. “The destruction, death, and displacement…
