38ec2871_1_Manitoba_Provincial_Election__James_Beddome_Green
[0] Health [Greg Selinger NDP] Improve health care by bringing better care closer to home. $24-million investment over the next four years to train more doctors, nurses, paramedics, technologists and other front-line health care staff. Expanding Brandon hospital ($12 million) to upgrade medical ward and add additional beds. Recruit 2,000 new nurses over next four years, including adding 100 new nurse training seats in Manitoba universities and colleges. Cover training costs for nurse practitioners who agree to work in the north and rural areas for two years. More doctors and 50 more physician assistants over four years ($77.3 million a year). Create 22 more medical residencies including 16 for family medicine and six for specialties. ($1.9 million a year, as part of over $24 million health training fund above). Three more Access Centres in St. Boniface, Southeast Winnipeg and Southwest Winnipeg. Three more QuickCare clinics run by nurse practitioners to provide routine care for ailments like sore throats, ear aches and immunizations. To be built in Seven Oaks, Southdale and West Winnipeg. ($21 million over four years capital investment including the QuickCare Clinics and the Access Centres). Expand community clinic in Lundar, Man., ($1.5 million) Redevelop Thompson Health Clinic to save 1,000 patient trips to Winnipeg each year and attract more specialists to Thompson. ($2 million) Redevelop Flin Flon emergency room ($10 million) Negotiate with Ottawa for a 10-year health care transfer program with stable funding increases, a national strategy to meet growing health care needs of seniors, improving health care on First Nations and federal support for provinces to acquire rapidly advancing health care technology. [Hugh McFayden PC] New emergency medical helicopter for Brandon serving western Manitoba ($5 million). Add 2,165 new front-line health care workers over six years including 1,700 nurses, 200 doctors, 40 physician assistants, 75 nurse practitioners, 25 mental health and addictions counsellors and 75 other health professionals. ($118 million a year). Create a Premier's Health Advisory Council, comprised of front-line health workers, to meet regularly with the premier and health minister. Add a doctor and a nurse to the board of each regional health authority. Update Manitoba Alzheumer Strategy and make dementia a public health priority. Invest $2.75 million to increase to 45 the number of "behavioural beds" for care of most challenging and aggressive individuals. $200,000 for First Link, a strategy to connect people to the Alzheimer Society's programs and services. $350,000 a year to reestablish the Memory Assessment Clinic. Invest $20 million to turn Access Centres into Community Care Centres that are open until 10 p.m. instead of 4:30 p.m. Give paramedics ability to refer patients to non-hospital locations including Community Care Centres and the Pan Am Clinic. $8.6 million improvements to emergency medical services including hiring 60 additional paramedics and adding five more ambulances in Winnipeg, and equipping all ambulances with powerlift stretchers and track-assist chairs; expanding training for paramedics so there are more advanced care paramedics and creating a College of Paramedics of Manitoba. $8 million to establish a specialized stroke unit and $3 million annual operating costs for it. $1.5 million to purchase a CT scanner for Swan Valley Health Centre in Swan River. $10 million for 40 new palliative care beds. $150,000 for the Manitoba Patient Advocate Website to assemble all wait time information in one place, connect patients with caregivers and home care providers. Establish a senior's health care hotline. Introduce Geriatric Emergency Management nurses at Grace and Concordia hospitals to conduct comprehensive geriatric assessments, assist emergency staff with admission decisions and arrange for support in the community for patients. Based on a successful model in Ontario. [Jon Gerard Liberal] $18 million in year one to establish 24-hour urgent care clinics connected to emergency rooms in Winnipeg to treat patients without life-threatening illnesses and injuries. $5 million for a new facility for Osborne House and expand the use of GPS technology to improve safety for domestic violence victims. Legislation to implement standards of care to protect the elderly including limits on prescriptions of anti-psychotic drugs used as a form of restraint. $4.6 million diabetes strategy including prevention and early detection. [James Beddome Green] 
Provide financial incentives to increase the number of family doctors and specialists who travel to rural Manitoba. Increase the number of nursing and allied health professionals including midwives. Extend coverage for alternative health care treatments that are evidence-based. Increase the number of family doctors through time-based financial incentives and extension of credentials to foreign trained doctors. Renovate an existing space to serve as a year-round preventative health clinic to address chronic health conditions that benefit from a mutli-disciplinary approach Renovate an existing space to establish a year-round clinic staffed by public health nurses to help reduce wait times for family doctors. The clinic can provide flu shots for example. Establish a one-year deadline for all hospitals, primary and secondary schools in Manitoba to stop serving fried foods in hospital cafeterias and eliminate potato chips and soda pop from vending machines. Expand routine childhood immunization schedules to include HPV vaccine for boys in grade six, to those parents who choose to vaccinate their child.
2011 Manitoba Provincial Election
James Beddome Green