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AMS Healthcare Announces Senior Fellows and Executive-in-Residence Program
AMS Healthcare is pleased to announce an exciting evolution in our network – the launch of the AMS Healthcare Senior Fellows and Executive-in-Residence Program. This initiative engages seasoned leaders from healthcare, public health, policy, industry, and academia to mentor AMS Fellows and Grantees and to advance thought leadership that amplifies our mission of maximizing compassion…
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Celebrating our first Change Day!
Change Day Ontario was designed to empower people within the health system to make positive changes by taking action and making pledges, big or small, to improve compassionate quality care. Our first Change Day is in the books and it was amazing!
Watching someone die and feeling … nothing
The first time I witnessed a death, I was a third year medical student and at the very beginning of my training. My patient was older – in his late 70s – and all alone. His family dropped him off at the emergency department and were not reachable by phone. One of my first nights…
There’s room for competition in public healthcare
This is the last of a five-part series in The Globe and Mail on modernizing medicare looking at lessons from home and abroad Carol Propper is a professor of economics at Imperial College Business School, London Do competition and choice improve health care? Or is health care just too complex and emotive an area to…
Medicare doesn’t have to be expensive…just look at Israel
This was the fourth of a five-part series in The Globe and Mail on modernizing medicare considering lessons from home and abroad. Bruce Rosen is director of the Smokler Center for Health Policy Research at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute in Jerusalem. In Canada, there is an ongoing debate about whether to expand medicare to include a…
Addressing jurisdictional disputes to improve Indigenous heath
This was the second of a five-part series in The Globe and Mail on modernizing medicare that considered lessons from home and abroad. Josée Lavoie is a professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, and director of the Manitoba First Nations Centre for Aboriginal Health Research, at the University of Manitoba. In 2017, there…
Canada should take healthcare lessons from Australia
This was the third of a five-part series in The Globe and Mail on modernizing medicare that considered lessons from home and abroad. Stephen Duckett is Director of the health program at Grattan Institute in Melbourne, Australia, and is a former head of the Australian Government Department of Health. Australia and Canada share many characteristics,…
