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CBC Manitoba: Audit’s advice for Manitoba health-care agencies surprising, ‘ridiculous,’ says health finance prof

Fiona Odlum — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:55:50 +0000

Nursing positions tend to get cut after they’re flagged as taking up a lot of resources, says Dr. Sonia Udod, an associate professor at the University of Manitoba’s college of nursing. The audits show that health authorities failed to predict spending on private agency nurses, she said.

Udod says a potential cut to nursing positions would be a “huge problem,” as the university recently boosted the number of seats in its nursing program by 50 per cent.

To read the full article, please follow the link to CBC Manitoba.

CBC Manitoba: Surgeon accused of sexual harassment banned from working at Grace Hospital

Fiona Odlum — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:19:12 +0000

While Steel maintained that suspension is a harsh punishment for Ames, an ethics professor at the University of Manitoba says reducing the ban to just the Grace Hospital seemingly fails to acknowledge the seriousness of Ames’s pattern of misconduct.

“The behaviour of which he’s been convicted of in 2022, and the behaviour of which he’s now been accused — by a colleague rather than a patient — undermines a critically important requirement for medicine to be able to operate effectively on behalf of the patient’s health,” said Dr. Arthur Schafer.

Schafer says Ames’s behaviour is “wildly inappropriate,” calling the quiet ban on Ames’s hospital privileges, and its subsequent reduction, “questionable.”

He says the medical profession has no room for repeated misbehaviour, and he wants to know if the matter is being handled by the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

To read the entire article, please follow the link to CBC Manitoba.

680 CJOB: Can Manitoba really have a balanced budget in a couple of years?

Fiona Odlum — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:00:32 +0000

The Manitoba government says its expecting to post a deficit of $1.3 billion for the fiscal year. That’s up from the $796 million tabled in the 2023-24 budget.

Finance Minister Adrien Sala says the increased deficit in the mid-year fiscal update is partly due to overspending in health care.

Jim Toth on 680 CJOB invited Asper School of Business professor of finance, Dr. Yik Au on his show this week to discuss if the provincial deficit is manageable and as the government said this week, they will be able to achieve a balanced budget in a couple of years?

To listen to the full conversation, please follow the link to 680 CJOB.

Winnipeg Free Press: Doctors Manitoba recruiting south of border

Fiona Odlum — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:39:05 +0000

The NDP has maintained the contract and pledged to create an office to help internationally educated health-care professionals find jobs and training in Manitoba.

“What type of doctors would want to be leaving? It could be those who are involved in reproductive rights, angry at living in Trump’s regime, especially after the Supreme Court decision to reverse Roe v. Wade. That might be one dynamic,” said Christopher Adams, an adjunct professor of political studies at the University of Manitoba.

Roe vs. Wade was the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that established a constitutional right to abortion; the Republican-majority court overturned the ruling in June 2022, turning the authority over to states, many of which have since made abortion illegal.

To read the entire article, read it out here: Winnipeg Free Press.