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Repeated delays into the release of a Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) review are arousing the suspicions of healthcare advocates.
No release date had been given for the governance report into the BHB, handed in to the Board last month by consultants Ho...
DATE: May 03, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Alzheimer’s and dementia patients are receiving poor care in inappropriately “clinical” conditions, according to a team of independent specialists.
And one frequent visitor to the Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases Unit (ARDU) at King Edward VII Memori...
DATE: May 03, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermudians could spend up to $1 billion on health in 2015 — and still get less value than similar countries.
Our spending is “very high”, the Bermuda Health Council CEO Jennifer Attride-Stirling warned, even when compared to jurisdictions with unheal...
DATE: May 01, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
US doctor Michael Weitekamp has been appointed chief of staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board.
Former chief Donald Thomas resigned last year after being placed on administrative leave.
Dr Weitekamp, who formally assumes his role today, holds responsib...
DATE: May 01, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The City of Hamilton will today host a health presentation by the founders of Gokul Herbs.
Rajenda Sarda, an Ayurvedic practitioner with experience working in India, Canada and the US is the guest speaker at the event, which starts at 12pm in the Ear...
DATE: Apr 30, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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The results of a recent HIP/Future Care Customer Survey found that more than half of the respondents “either strongly agreed or agreed that the Future Care Premium is affordable”.
Junior Minister of Health and Seniors, Senator Lynne Woolridge said y...
DATE: Apr 26, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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More than half of staff do not agree the hospital balances safety and productivity
By Gareth Finighan
A survey of employees at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital has delivered a damning indictment on standards of care and staff morale at the facility....
DATE: Apr 24, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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The Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) and the Bermuda Organ and Tissue Donor Association (BOTDA) will next week reach out to the public to become donors.
A spokeswoman for the groups said that while advances in medical science have made transplant surger...
DATE: Apr 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Women in Bermuda have the highest rate of diabetes-related lower extremity amputations out of all the 30 countries in the OECD.
That was one of the facts highlighted by Health Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin at the Department of Public Transportatio...
DATE: Apr 18, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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A medical practice has resorted to hiring its own debt collector to track down a soaring number of patients refusing to pay.
The company has accumulated roughly $300,000 in unpaid bills since 2011, said one doctor, who requested anonymity for this st...
DATE: Apr 18, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
