Health groups urge Premier Wynne to stop medical tourism
Recent remarks by Ontario's Minister of Health indicating unqualified support for medical tourism have prompted AOHC and four other health organizations to urge Premier Kathleen Wynne to step in and end the practice of allowing hospitals to solicit patients from other countries.
In the letter, the groups warn that allowing hospitals to go shopping for patients in a bid to raise revenue will redirect already stretched resources and jeopardize the province's ability to provide care for Ontarians.
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Women Empowering Women Scholarship
The Women Empowering Women Scholarship is designed to remove some of the barriers for refugee and immigrant women returning to school in Canada so that they may secure more sustainable employment in Canada. This scholarship supports women to graduate and enter the workforce without incurring debt that may affect their ability to support themselves and their families.
Deadline is Monday, April 28
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Request for Workshop Host Sites
Best Practice Champions for Smoke-Free Pregnancies Workshops
The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO) is requesting applications from interested and eligible health care organizations engaged in primary care and working with pre and post natal women and their families in smoking cessation to act as a Host Site for a Best Practice Champions for Smoke-Free Pregnancies Workshop delivered on-site.
RNAO is hopeful that there will be much interest in these new workshops and encourages sites to apply.
Applications are due by Thursday, May 8.
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India court recognizes transgendered people as third gender
India's Supreme Court has recognized transgender people as a third gender, in a landmark ruling.
In 2009, India's Election Commission took a first step by allowing transgenders to choose their gender as "other" on ballot forms.
But India is not the first country to recognize a third gender. Nepal recognized a third gender as early as in 2007 when the Supreme Court ordered the government to scrap all laws that discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. And last year, Bangladesh also recognized a third gender.
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Take action to pass new minimum wage legislation
Take 2 minutes to let your MPP know you want him/her to support new legislation under debate at Queens Park that could improve working conditions and wages for hundreds of thousands of low income Ontarians.
If passed these new laws would: increase minimum wage, crack down on temp agencies, regulate migrant worker recruiters, stop wage theft and make it easier for workers to form unions.
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Peer Led Webinar: Templates in Nightingale
Four new Dialogue Meta Sets have recently been made available in NOD: chiropody, diabetes, nutrition and social work.
We are pleased to offer two Peer Leader sessions to provide insights on how to best use these dialogue sets to efficiently capture reportable clinical and non-clinical data.
Sessions will take place on Friday, April 25 and Thursday, May 1.
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Upcoming professional learning events 2014/15
New to our lineup of professional learning events this year is a Community Health and Wellbeing Summer Institute. This event will take place in Orillia on July 16 and 17. Here you can take a deep dive into community development and community vitality. The Institute will focus on community initiatives grounded in the Model of Health and Wellbeing and applying the Community Index of Wellbeing and concepts from collective impact. More information to come in early May.
Interested in helping out?
If you are interested in helping to plan the 5th annual Health Promotion and Community Development learning event, or helping with the Community Health and Wellbeing Summer Institute, please contact Wendy Banh, wendy@aohc.org and tell us what you most want to contribute.
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- October 17-19 - Nightingale Connects 2014 - Toronto, ON
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