Tag: News/Canada/Hamilton

Exhausted PSWs feel underpaid, lack of respect. One says they’re seen as ‘the cockroaches of health care’

Mr 204 - July 23, 2021
For one personal support worker at a nursing home in Ontario's Norfolk County, each day is a blur. There should be at least six PSWs on each floor where she works, but many days, there are only three or four."We are...

Hamilton Health Sciences takes down field hospital that didn’t see a single COVID-19 patient

Mr 204 - July 6, 2021
Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) is taking down its field hospital after never getting a chance to use it. In a staff memo on June 30, the hospital network said the Ontario Ministry of Health ordered HHS to decommission the field hospital, effective immediately....