Peel Region’s Sikh community played a key role in establishing Brampton’s gleaming new hospital. It has played an equally major role in the troubled institution’s first major crisis. BRAMPTON: The opening of Brampton Civic Hospital was supposed to be an occasion for celebration, especially among the city’s burgeoning Sikh community. They had been actively courted […]

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A review by the Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons has found “system issues” after a woman complained about the care her 70-year-old mother received at Concordia Hospital in 2005. Tracey Weber says her mother was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection and prescribed antibiotics when she arrived at the hospital’s emergency department in extreme […]

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Emergency-room doctors are filing a complaint against Montreal’s Sacré Coeur Hospital. Their association is angry because the hospital is continuing to offer bonuses to doctors who work extra shifts in the emergency rooms. The head of emergency medicine for the French-language teaching hospitals says Sacré Coeur is paying from $250 to $1,000 extra per shift. […]

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