News - Health Care

One year into its first term and six months into its first provincial budget, the Manitoba government is over halfway to its goal of hiring 1,000 net new health-care workers.

The Manitoba government is helping more people get screened for breast cancer with a plan to progressively lower the age for self-referrals to 40 from 50, beginning with a commitment to get to age 45 by the end of next year.

Four local community business leaders recently braved the elements to raise an astonishing $350,000 (and counting) in support of STARS’ operations in Manitoba.

The Manitoba government has opened its first ever Extended Hours Primary Care Clinic, which will be open on evenings, weekends and holidays so patients can access care when and where they need it.

The Manitoba government is adding 68 transitional care beds to facilities across the province in an effort to reduce wait times in emergency departments and ease access block within hospitals.

The Manitoba government is reducing pressure on emergency rooms and improving wait times by reopening the former Misericordia Urgent Care Centre as a minor injury and illness clinic.

The Manitoba government is expanding access to primary care and reducing emergency room wait times by opening a new minor injury and illness clinic at the Grace Hospital in Winnipeg.

A number of metrics for home-care services have shown improvement, thanks to a new pathway for home-care workers within the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA) that has seen success recruiting and retaining health-care aides working in the home-care field.

The Manitoba government has announced changes to the province’s newborn screening program to include the inherited blood disorder, which is most commonly found in people of African, Middle Eastern, Asian and Caribbean descent.

The Manitoba government has announced that it is taking steps to improve emergency medical services by adding and training more paramedics, adding more ambulances and expanding emergency patient transport.