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Ontario Health Coalition: Doug Ford's new legislation being pushed through the Legislature gives new powers to force the elderly & persons with disabilities into substandard long-term care homes: "morally repugnant"

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Friday, August 19, 2022
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The actions include having a placement co-ordinator determine the patients eligibility for a long-term care home, select a home and authorize their admission to the home.

Key Points: 
  • The actions include having a placement co-ordinator determine the patients eligibility for a long-term care home, select a home and authorize their admission to the home.
  • without their consent, and to admit them into a long-term care home not of their choosing without their consent.
  • Furthermore, the leader of Ontario's long-term care homes warned just yesterday that long-term care homes are experiencing crisis-level staffing shortages.
  • "This legislation overrides the fundamental human rights of frail vulnerable elderly patients," said Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition.

Independent Study Shows Cue Health's Molecular COVID-19 Test is as Accurate as a Lab-Based PCR Test

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Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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SAN DIEGO, Calif., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cue Health Inc. ("Cue") (Nasdaq: HLTH) announced today the preprint publication of an independent clinical study - the largest of its kind on asymptomatic people - demonstrating that its point of care (POC) molecular COVID-19 test, which produces results in approximately 20 minutes, is as accurate as a centralized lab-based RT-PCR.  

Key Points: 
  • The study presents findings from a head-to-head comparison of the Cue COVID-19 test against lab-based RT-PCR on paired samples from 3,037 individuals.
  • "The findings from our large study indicate that sensitivity of Cue's POC testing may be an excellent proxy for PCR when accurate and fast results are urgently needed to curb transmission."
  • Specimen collection and Cue COVID-19 testing was performed by trained registered nurses (RNs and RPNs) at FH Health clinic sites.
  • Cue Health's first-of-its-kind COVID-19 test was the first FDA-authorized molecular diagnostic test for at-home and over-the-counter use without a prescription and physician supervision.

Advocates for More Than 1 Million Health Care Workers & Patients Call for Emergency Measures Needed to Address the Health Care Staffing Crisis

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Friday, January 14, 2022
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Our provinces health care system is not on the brink of crisis, it is in crisis.

Key Points: 
  • Our provinces health care system is not on the brink of crisis, it is in crisis.
  • In the pandemic, the staffing crisis has become a full-blown emergency, made worse by inadequate PPE and safety protections for workers.
  • The Ontario government must urgently address the immediate emergency in staffing, begin measures to address the pre-existing severe staffing shortages, and set conditions of work that will stabilize our hospitals, long-term care & home care to provide the health care that Ontarians need.
  • We represent more than one million Ontarians on the front lines of the crisis, as health care professionals and workers, as patients, residents and families.