Visiting loved ones in long-term care facilities during COVID-19 has been difficult at best. However, accommodations and adaptations by both facilities and families/friends have been done to make “visiting” loved ones possible.
Unfortunately, the visiting-related actions of an individual in Calgary may have compromised future visits as well as the health and well-being of residents and staff. Click here to read the story.
Category Archives: Health Care Team
What is happening in Alberta?
'The next step is refrigerator trucks.' Alberta ICU doctor @drdagly gives a dire outlook on the province's pandemic response as it plans to build field hospitals for COVID-19 patients. #CBCNN pic.twitter.com/1j4kxovmgk
— CBC Morning Live (@CBCMorningLive) December 3, 2020
Impact of COVID-19

While it is true that COVID-19 is affecting patients and their families, it is also having a large impact on healthcare providers. This article clearly illustrates how healthcare workers are being impacted emotionally and mentally by the covid-19 pandemic.
How Many More?
How many more doctors in Alberta are going to be sending their patients a similar letter as the one Brenda recieved?
Got “the letter” today. Thanks @jkenney and @shandro pic.twitter.com/OXOoFUE4xp
— Brenda (@BerkieBrenda) October 28, 2020
Great news for residents of central Alberta

Pharmacies in locations such as Red Deer will soon be offering COVID-19 testing. This increase in testing availability is very timely, given that schools open in less than a month. Read more about this expanded testing here.
Webinars to Attend
Registration is now open for the next 3 webinars on #PatientPartnership during a time of #COVID19. These webinars bring lived experience to emerging issues, policies and practices in response to the pandemic. https://t.co/ymJQtGsr5y pic.twitter.com/eEFmI9SA37
— CFHI-FCASS (@CFHI_FCASS) June 22, 2020
Trumpet Players’ Tribute to Healthcare Workers
Barriers: Breaking or Building?
A short but powerful video. Definitely one worth watching.
Sandra’s Words
Have you read Sandra’s very powerful and heartfelt message that she wrote on December 5th, 2019? If not, you may wish to do so below. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1148512898813667&id=100009649036230&ref=bookmarks Twitter Thread Worth Reading
Pilots care about fatigue management because they know that 1) physiologically, we all preform poorly when fatigued and 2) they are in the plane, too, and don’t want to crash.
— Shannon McNamara, MD (@ShannonOMac) December 15, 2019
What does it say about physicians that we ignore the science of fatigue management? Disappointing. https://t.co/bCkPFb9AOW