News - Health Care

A new service will support safe, consistent and timely emergency care by offering health-care providers in rural, northern and some Winnipeg facilities improved access to specialist consultation for clinical advice and transfer of patients.

The Manitoba government is implementing a health human resource action plan moving to end mandating overtime by adding 2,000 health-care professionals with an investment of $200 million to retain, train and recruit health-care staff across the province.

Construction will start soon on a planned renovation and expansion at Boundary Trails Health Centre that will add new acute care inpatient beds and provide a larger, more modern space for patient care programs.

Hundreds of Manitobans who are waiting for a hip or knee replacement surgery will be able to access care more quickly with three new agreements recently signed by the Manitoba government.

Construction to establish a new renal unit that allows dialysis patients to receive care closer to home is now underway at Bethesda Regional Health Centre as part of the first phase of a significant capital project that will expand the site.

The Manitoba government has announced that it will invest in a dedicated service to transport low-acuity patients as part of ongoing efforts to improve health-care access for rural Manitobans.

The Manitoba government is investing more than $5.2 million in two programs that will help address the overall staffing shortages in the province’s health-care sector as well as increase the representation of Indigenous people in this field.

The Manitoba government is inviting Manitobans to provide feedback on personal care home standards to better understand their perspectives on this important topic.

More than $16 million in new funding will be invested this year to expand staffing and training in personal care homes (PCHs), aligned with the Manitoba government’s commitment to fulfill all recommendations of the Stevenson Review.

The governments of Canada and Manitoba released a Virtual Care Action Plan, which outlines how Manitoba will use the $7 million federal investment through the Canada-Manitoba Virtual Care Agreement to develop and improve virtual health-care initiatives for Manitobans.