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Meet Andrew, OT: Supporting Client Quality of Life
Read Article: Meet Andrew, OT: Supporting Client Quality of LifeWhen you meet Andrew in person, it’s easy to imagine how he ended up a healthcare professional. Kind, gentle, well-spoken and compassionate, Andrew S. is an Occupational Therapist (OT) with Community Therapy Services (CTS), a private, non profit agency that provides OT and physiotherapy (PT) services to meet the rehabilitation service needs of individuals, care…
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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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MAHCP submits 2024 provincial budget recommendations
Read Article: MAHCP submits 2024 provincial budget recommendationsYesterday, MAHCP submitted recommendations to the Honourable Adrian Sala, Minister of Finance, in anticipation of the development of the 2024/25 provincial budget. For allied health, this is a critical budget – Manitoba is at a tipping point – and our provincial government must make immediate and long-overdue investments across the health-care system. As we prepare…
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Statement from President Jason Linklater on bilateral health-care funding agreements
Read Article: Statement from President Jason Linklater on bilateral health-care funding agreementsOn behalf of MAHCP’s 7,000 specialized allied health members, we are very pleased with the Province of Manitoba/Government of Canada’s February 15 joint announcement of two significant, multi-year health funding agreements. MAHCP has been calling on government to address rising vacancies, unreasonable overtime, deteriorating morale and crumbling faith in the system for many years, and…
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MEDIA RELEASE: Throne Speech Disappointing for Allied Health
Read Article: MEDIA RELEASE: Throne Speech Disappointing for Allied HealthMEDIA RELEASE PDF Version Throne Speech Disappointing for Allied Health Urgent Staffing Crisis Left Unaddressed November 23, 2021 Winnipeg MB – After sounding the alarm for months on critical staffing shortages for diagnostic imaging technologists, rural paramedics, laboratory professionals, respiratory therapists and many other allied health professionals that Manitobans rely on, the Manitoba Association of…
