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Carly Weeks @carlyweeks

Vice-president of communications, public affairs and stakeholder relations at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, former health journalist at The Globe and Mail

Joined June 2009
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Carly Weeks@carlyweeks
28 May 2024
I'm so glad to see this story out--one of my last pieces for @globeandmail. A small thread: I had the chance to spend time in my hometown, Sault Ste. Marie, last month to look at why a major health provider is being forced to deroster 10,000 patients. theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Uncertainty underlies health care for 10,000 people in Sault Ste. Marie as clinic cuts off patients

Patients of the long-standing community clinic Group Health Centre are set to be derostered because of a shortage of family practitioners

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Hamilton Spectator@TheSpec
15 Aug 2024
Construction has started on a $16.7-million health centre that will get patients out of Hamilton hospitals while they wait for other types of care. thespec.com/news/hamilton-re… Joanna Frketich reports | @jfrketich

So many patients stuck in Hamilton hospitals that a centre is being built to care for them

New 57-bed centre will be housed at St. Joseph’s Villa in Dundas

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Incredible news. Congratulations @NicoleMacIntyre!
Toronto Star
@TorontoStar
10 Jun 2024
Nicole MacIntyre named Toronto Star editor in chief as Anne Marie Owens steps away trib.al/WJAPhn1
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Long awaited guidelines from @cantaskforce don’t recommend routine breast screening at ages 40-49, citing a lack of evidence, but individuals who want screening shouldn’t face barriers getting it. My latest today in @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Earlier breast cancer screening not advised, task force says

In a split with Cancer Society recommendations, a federal panel said it found no compelling evidence to warrant lowering the routine screening age to 40 for average-risk individuals

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I'm so glad to see this story out--one of my last pieces for @globeandmail. A small thread: I had the chance to spend time in my hometown, Sault Ste. Marie, last month to look at why a major health provider is being forced to deroster 10,000 patients. theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Uncertainty underlies health care for 10,000 people in Sault Ste. Marie as clinic cuts off patients

Patients of the long-standing community clinic Group Health Centre are set to be derostered because of a shortage of family practitioners

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Thank you to everyone who has been a reader over the years and gave their time to me so that I could tell stories to help people make more sense of the world around them. It has been the honour of a lifetime.
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And thank you also to @Dbaic for her tireless work to capture the photos and videos that made our Sault Ste. Marie story shine. Deb is also from the Sault and she's one of the many Globe colleagues I will miss.
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I didn’t know Joan personally, but I’m one of many health reporters here today because of the trail she blazed. What a wonderful tribute to a remarkable life, written by @picardonhealth
André Picard@picardonhealth
12 Apr 2024
Obituary: Tenacious journalist Joan Hollobon helped make medical stories front-page news. The legendary @globeandmail medical reporter has died at age 104, by @picardonhealth theglobeandmail.com/canada/a… #journalism #WomenInJournalism
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@CBCNews
12 Apr 2024
Local health authorities are investigating after a man paralyzed in both arms and legs sought a medically assisted death after developing a huge bedsore while lying on a stretcher in the ER of the Saint-Jérôme, Que., hospital. cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/… .

Quadriplegic Quebec man chooses assisted dying after 4-day ER stay leaves horrific bedsore | CBC...

Local health authorities are investigating, after Normand Meunier, who has been paralyzed in both arms and legs since 2022, sought a medically assisted death after developing a huge bedsore while...

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The only safe consumption sites in Timmins and Sudbury, which have some of the highest rates of overdose deaths and harms in the province, are set to close this weekend due to a lack of provincial funds. My story today: theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Northern Ontario safe consumption sites on verge of closing over lack of provincial funding

Looming closings of the lone consumption sites in Timmins and Sudbury is raising concerns it could lead to a spike in overdoses and deaths

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And a provincial review into CTS sites, launched last year following the tragic shooting death of a bystander near a site in Toronto's east end, remains ongoing. Meaning all new CTS applications remain on hold.
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@andreawoo.bsky.social | 鄔瑞楓@AndreaWoo
28 Mar 2024
🧵 Numerous B.C. pharmacies are accused of offering prohibited cash kickbacks to vulnerable patients for their prescriptions in an effort to maximize the amounts the pharmacies can bill the province’s publicly funded drug plan theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Patients say B.C. pharmacies paying prohibited cash incentives to fill prescriptions at their...

Dozens of pharmacies are alleged to have offered kickbacks to patients to fill prescriptions at their locations or recruit others to do so, maximizing how much can be billed to the province’s...

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Caroline Alphonso@calphonso
25 Mar 2024
A new report shows how severe daily staffing shortages are in Ontario’s public education system theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Ontario’s public education system faces dire staffing challenges, survey finds

School officials have redeployed non-classroom teaching staff and uncertified instructors in many instances to fill teaching positions temporarily

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Toronto Public Health reporting 21 cases mpox so far this year, compared to 27 cases in all of 2023. None of the current cases were fully vaccinated; residents urged to get vaccinated with two doses.
Toronto Public Health
@TOPublicHealth
20 Mar 2024
NEWS RELEASE: Toronto Public Health reminds residents to get vaccinated against mpox amid rise in local cases: toronto.ca/news/toronto-publ…
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"What won’t solve the toxic drug crisis is rage-farming about relatively insignificant issues like the diversion of safer supply drugs." Important column today from @picardonhealth
André Picard@picardonhealth
19 Mar 2024
Diversion of #SaferSupply drugs is a trivial issue distracting us from the real challenge: Reducing toxic drug deaths, by ⁦@picardonhealth⁩ via ⁦@GlobeDebate⁩ #HarmReduction #ToxicDrugCrisis theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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Kelly Grant@kellygrant1
4 Mar 2024
My colleague @TuThanhHa has confirmed in New Brunswick the same pattern we reported on in Newfoundland with private staffing agency Canadian Health Labs. theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

New Brunswick officials paid nursing firm for meal allowances workers never received

Vitalité Health Network paid Canadian Health Labs for meal allowances for its travelling staff, but the company’s workers were told they were on their own when it came to paying for meals, documents...

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This is a concerning new development on the measles front.
Lauren Pelley@LaurenPelley
29 Feb 2024
Replying to @LaurenPelley
Story up from @CBCToronto on this latest measles report: cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/f…
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