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Employers who have promoted breastfeeding in the workplace were yesterday recognised for their efforts by La Leche League Bermuda and the Ministry of Health.
The Royal Gazette Limited was one of eight companies honoured as part of Breastfeeding Aware...
DATE: Aug 07, 2013
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Health
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The “fiasco” over the Continuing Care Unit (CCU) could and should have been avoided, Opposition Senator Renee Ming Anderson said.
Speaking in the motion to adjourn at yesterday’s Senate hearing, Sen Ming said: “We stress people, we stress employees, ...
DATE: Jul 25, 2013
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Health
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Health chiefs hope to reduce the number of medical tests being carried out at King Edward VII Memorial in a bid to bring down costs at the facility.
And the move could also reduce health insurance premiums, which have shot up by as much as 20 percent...
DATE: Jul 25, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
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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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
