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Staff at the hospital’s Continuing Care Unit (CCU) downed tools yesterday over concerns about the future of the unit.
Nursing aides, orderlies, unit assistants, dietary aides and activity aides from the unit marched from King Edward VII Memorial to ...
DATE: Jul 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Construction crews employed on the new hospital wing have clocked up more than one million hours of work on the new facility.
The Acute Care Wing — the largest construction project in Bermuda’s history — broke ground in January 2011 and is set for co...
DATE: Jul 18, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
July 16, 2013
Dear Sir,
It is my understanding that we need to raise a great deal more money to get our hospital paid for. Might I, at the risk of causing the pious to be indignant, suggest that we have a national lottery just for the fund raising fo...
DATE: Jul 17, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Plans to shut down the hospital’s Continuing Care Unit will take at least two years to implement, Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin has revealed.
Last week the Minister said Government planned to shut down the facility because it was “not fit f...
DATE: Jul 16, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Hospital watchdog Bermuda Health Advocacy Group has applauded moves by Government to shut down an ageing hospital wing which provides long-term care to elderly patients.
Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin announced the move last week, claiming t...
DATE: Jul 16, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Health Minister Patrice Gordon Pamplin refuted suggestions that FutureCare costs were being shifted onto lower-income policy holders.
And she attacked the former administration for draining the consolidated fund, making it more difficult for Governme...
DATE: Jul 16, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A “fee-for-service” billing system at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital is being reviewed by health chiefs who claim that it “incentivised” physicians to carry out tests and invasive examinations on patients in order to increase the hospital’s revenu...
DATE: Jul 16, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Leading doctors from North America were among the experts that attended the Pink Conference on Breast Cancer, hosted by Bermuda.
More than 200 members of the public attended for free, and the event has been hailed a success by Minister of Health and ...
DATE: Jul 15, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Government is to shut down the Continuing Care Unit at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital because it is “not fit for purpose” and “inappropriate” to keep elderly patients there.
Announcing the decision, Health Minister Patricia Gordon Pamplin said tha...
DATE: Jul 15, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Former Health Minister Zane DeSilva has said that the Progressive Labour Party never pretended the hospital did not have its share of problems.
However, he said the facility made forward progress during the party’s time in power.
“The hospital is a v...
DATE: Jul 15, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
