Elizabeth Payne
Ottawa Citizen
Cambridge, ON, Canada
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Home test kit for HIV a 'game-changer' for underserved Ottawa communities
The GetaKit project is studying the impact of mailing free HIV test kits, especially to those who might face barriers to the health system. → Read More
Why the old-school yellow cardboard vaccination record booklets could finally become obsolete
Why the old-school yellow cardboard vaccination record booklets could finally become obsolete → Read More
Struggling home- and community-care agencies forced to cut services as they wait for promised provincial funding
Last April, the health minister announced Ontario would invest $1 billion over three years to shore up the home- and community-care system. → Read More
Highly contagious 'Kraken' subvariant becoming dominant in Ottawa, spreading exponentially throughout Ontario
The XBB.1.5 subvariant represents between 30 and 50 per cent of the wastewater signal, which measures the amount of virus in the community. → Read More
Contractors' group asks Competition Bureau to investigate labour deal to build Ottawa hospital's new Civic campus
“There is something seriously wrong when thousands of Ottawa-area construction workers and local companies have no chance to build one of the largest… → Read More
New cataract surgeries at private clinics in Ottawa are a partnership with The Ottawa Hospital: CEO
The Ottawa Hospital currently does most of the cataract surgeries performed in the city each year. → Read More
The Ottawa Hospital building patient overflow space in its ambulance offload garage at the General campus
Two years after opening a tent-like structure in the parking lot of its Civic campus to deal with overcrowding, The Ottawa Hospital is building a similar overflow space in the garage at its General campus. → Read More
Ontario announces 'bold' plan to expand private surgeries amid mounting concerns
“A lot of people want to have endless debates about who should provide care. All I care about, all Minister Jones cares about, all our government cares about, is that you get the care you need safely and quickly." → Read More
Ottawa's 1,000th COVID death should be a 'call to action'
COVID-19 has become a leading cause of death for Ottawa residents over 65 since the pandemic began, and the risk continues, → Read More
Ottawa's 1,000th COVID death is a sad signpost on the exhausting pandemic journey
Pandemics end in three ways, says one medical historian: socially, biologically and medically. So far, only society is done with COVID. → Read More
Program to bring student nurses on staff as 'externs' a pipeline to CHEO's future: hospital officials
Nurse externs are employed by the hospital and receive training as unregulated health-care providers by shadowing and working with nurses. → Read More
Immune evasive COVID subvariant in Ottawa wastewater, part of new pandemic wave
Ottawa is experiencing the start of another pandemic wave that likely includes cases of the highly contagious XBB.1.5 subvariant, according to one of the city's leading wastewater researchers. → Read More
Some sex assault survivors might have gone without treatment after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, new research suggests
Once the COVID-19 pandemic began, the number of people seeking treatment for sexual assault plummeted, according to a just-released study. → Read More
On the COVID lessons we haven't learned, three years in
Understanding the fatigue and pushback that increasingly defines the global pandemic could prove to be one of the most difficult knots to untangle, even as case counts and deaths continue to rise — COVID deaths in Ottawa are expected to surpass 1,000 early this year. → Read More
The viral immunity debate has no simple answer — but masks make a difference, says researcher
McMaster University professor Dawn Bowdish warns that simplistic conclusions are not supported by facts when it comes to "immunity debt." → Read More
New changes to MAiD laws are 'a bridge too far' for some — including doctors
Canada is in the midst of a contentious debate about whether MAiD laws are expanding too far, too fast. → Read More
CHEO officials plead with families to get flu shots amid 'staggering' rise in cases
“We don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel until sometime in mid-January." → Read More
As CHEO continues to struggle, Ottawa's adult hospitals brace for viral illness impact
Based on experiences in the southern hemisphere during their winter and early indications in Ontario, it is likely to be an extremely severe year for influenza at a time when COVID-19 and other viruses are also continuing to circulate. The combination is expected to wallop hospitals that are already dealing with staff shortages, backlogs and high levels of COVID-19. → Read More
'All hands on deck' as CHEO brings in Red Cross amid respiratory viral crisis
Eighteen Red Cross staff members will begin working overnight shifts at CHEO starting this week. → Read More
Ottawa paramedics were at 'Level Zero' when call came in about 11-year-old with no vital signs
There were no ambulances available in Ottawa on the day a frantic 911 call came in from an elementary school about a girl who had no vitals. → Read More