By matt
Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services is pleased to welcome 25 new physicians to the organization between January 1 and April 1, 2024. The physicians are located throughout the province and work in a range of specialties including family medicine (such as family care teams), hematopathology, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, psychiatry, obstetrics/gynecology, general surgery, pathology and …
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Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services outlined plans to reduce the number of private health-care staff (agency nurses) used within the organization to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels by April 2026. Actions to date, including recruitment and retention efforts, have resulted in a 11.4 per cent reduction in the number of private health-care staff since February 2024 …
By matt
Today, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services is recognizing its first year in operation as a provincial health authority. On April 1, 2023, the transition from the four legacy regional health authorities and the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information to a single provincial health authority officially began. This was initiated in response to …
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Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services is embarking on the implementation of a new transformational health information system for the province, marking the beginning of the largest digital health system to be undertaken to date in Newfoundland and Labrador. This new project will introduce modernized software that will replace various applications and systems used in …
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Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services is pleased to share that the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s has been recognized as a Choosing Wisely Canada Hospital at the “Quality Improvement Status” level. The Health Sciences Centre is the first hospital in the country to receive this status within Choosing Wisely Canada’s new designation program …
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Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services announced today that labour and delivery services will resume at James Paton Memorial Regional Health Centre (JPMRHC) in Gander on Monday, March 18, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. “We are pleased to share that appropriate services and staffing are now in place at James Paton Memorial Regional Health Centre which will …
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Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services is partnering with two of its strategic innovation partners, Seafair Capital and Mobia Health, on the development and pilot of a software and process solution to streamline and coordinate the discharge of alternative level of care patients. The purpose of the solution, DischargeHUB, is to plan and optimize how …
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Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services and Lyfegen, a global rebate management software provider headquartered in Switzerland, have partnered to implement an innovative platform to streamline and improve the pharmaceutical rebate submission process for some oncology and other drug products. Newfoundland and Labrador is the first location in Canada to use this digital platform. As …
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Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services will hold an official opening and ribbon cutting event for the new emergency department at the Bonavista Peninsula Health Centre tomorrow, November 17, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. Members of the media who would like to attend this in-person event are asked to RSVP by 9:00 a.m. on Friday, November …
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Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services is pleased to announce the launch of the first mobile primary health clinic service for the province in New-Wes-Valley, located in the Central Zone of the province. This mobile primary health clinic will be open to scheduled patients on Saturday, November 18 and Sunday, November 19, 2023 at the …
Last updated on: March 30, 2025