In nine months, Prairie Mountain Health spent nearly $15 million to pay private agencies for health-care aides — on top of almost $18.4 million it shelled out in the previous 12 months for the same ...

2:10 New poll finds care workers are feeling increasingly stressed and burned out by the job B.C.’s largest health-care union said many of its care aid workers are considering leaving their jobs in ...

While Treena Slate, the CEO of Prairie Mountain Health (PMH), works to reduce the number of agency nurses as ordered by the provincial government days ago, Kyle Ross, the president of the Manitoba ...

$3.4 million to address care home staff shortages New funding will offer uncertified health-care aides working in the public health care system tuition support to improve their skills.

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority would like the public to know that it is aware of an individual who posed as a health-care worker at St. Boniface Hospital. The WRHA says the unauthorized person ...

A new report is using the stories of immigrant women working as health-care aides in Calgary's long-term care homes to shed light on the extreme pressures of the job and areas that could be improved ...

A union says health-care aides at St. Boniface Hospital have seen their overtime rates soar, thanks to staffing changes caused by the province’s ongoing health-facility transformation. Marie Buchan, a ...

A health-care aide whose death is linked to a COVID-19 outbreak at Victoria General Hospital was a leader of his community, his friend tells CBC News. Jean Claude Dianzenza, 61, leaves behind a wife ...

Efforts are underway to bolster staffing and stabilize wait times in the Grace Hospital emergency department, after a patient awaiting transfer to an in-patient bed died in a hallway early Saturday ...

Kerri O’Keefe loved her job in the emergency room of Vancouver General Hospital so much she’d work 24/7 if she could, she’d often say. “She loved the hustle and the chaos. It was perfect for her,” ...

BRANDON — The union for health-care aides says the reliance on private agency workers by the Prairie Mountain Health region keeps rising, and hit $20.9 million in the last fiscal year. *No charge for ...