Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Mental health coverage could be key to curbing health costs
Molly Bernhart

Focusing health efforts on people with chronic conditions is a challenge, so behavioral health problems within this group often are overlooked, experts say. Employers may admit that behavioral health is important, but may not realize how...

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Director of CDR Programs, Operations and Outreach – Ottawa, Ontario
Assistant Consultant, Physician Assistant Project - OHA, Toronto, ON
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What's the Fuss About? Why Do We Need Healthy Work Environments for Nurses Anyway?
Griffin P, El-jardali, F., Tucker D., Grinspun, D., Bajnok, I. , and Shamian, J.

Healthy work environments (HWEs) are essential for the retention and recruitment of nurses and for health system sustainability. HWEs are defined as practice settings that maximize the health and well-being of nurses, quality patient outcomes and...

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TRANSITIONS

March 3, 2009

Vickie Kaminski to President and Chief Executive Officer of Eastern Health, Newfoundland and Labrador. More.
Jonathan Lomas to senior scholar in residence at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Ontario
Marianne Walker, President & CEO, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Guelph, to member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Hospital Association
Dr. Allon Reddoch to Chair, the Health Care Review Steering Committee, Yukon
Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, to President of Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH
Carol Clemenhagen to Program Leader for the Global Health Research Initiative, a partnership of the Canadian International Development Agency, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, International Research Development Centre, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

February 24, 2009
Dr. Joanne Hope to interim chief of staff, the Niagara Health System (ON)
Dr. Keith Greenway
had been acting as interim chief of staff, the Niagara Health System (ON)
Dr. William Shragge
had been chief of staff, the Niagara Health System (ON)
Bhavdeep Singh to Chief Executive Officer, Hospital chain Fortis Healthcare, New Delhi India
Dr. André Corriveau
to Chief Medical Officer of Health, Alberta
John N. Wallace
to President and Chief Executive Officer, The Caldwell Partners International Inc.

[Don't forget, we don't make these up. Please send your promotions, appointments, retirements and other transitions to publisher@longwoods.com.] Our transitions come from sources we believe to be reliable. We do not guarantee that they are correct. But we are rarely wrong.

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