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⚡️Elderly patients with nowhere else to go are crowding hospitals. How Ontario aims to solve the crisis
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The dire situation leaves Ontario playing catch-up with other regions in the country. As of March 2022, 39,000 people in the province were on the waiting list for a long-term care bed. Read the full story here:
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Ontario is the only province where hospitals already own and operate some nursing homes. But they are small players, with just 6 per cent of the province’s 78,800 long-term care beds.
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In Ontario, ALC patients spent 23 days on average in hospitals during fiscal 2021. Many hospitals are working towards solutions either by building their own nursing homes or partnering with owners of for-profit chains. tgam.ca/3QkHwI8
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The situation is bleaker in Atlantic Canada. In Nova Scotia, ALC patients spent 52 days on average in hospitals in fiscal 2021 – more than twice the national average, data shows.
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ALC patients occupied 17% of the nation’s acute-care beds in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, spending 24 days on average in hospitals.
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It’s not just rural or community hospitals that are feeling the strain of staffing shortages. The ICUs at Toronto General Hospital are operating either at capacity or close to full. tgam.ca/3QkHwI8
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The problem predates the pandemic, but COVID-19 has made it worse, as the health care system struggles with a shortage of family doctors, not enough walk-in clinics and an unprecedented number of nurses leaving the profession. tgam.ca/3QkHwI8
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There’s an impact on the health care system too: Beds occupied by ALC patients deplete resources for the critically ill, and are one of the root causes of emergency ward backlogs in many hospitals across Canada.
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Lying in a bed in a noisy, unfamiliar environment designed for short-term stays causes these patients, known as alternate-level-of-care (ALC), to lose 5% of their capacity a day, say medical experts. tgam.ca/3QkHwI8
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A shortage of community care has made hospitals the default place for many elderly patients in Canada, who no longer require medical intervention and are waiting to be placed in home care, a rehabilitation program or a nursing home.
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Vancouver Island project aims to nurture next generation of farmers
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⚡️The agricultural revolution is here. Will Canada keep up and invest in agtech?
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Yet how successful Canada is at closing that agtech gap could determine whether the country lives up to being an agricultural superpower or settles as an also-ran. Read the full story here:
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As that digital revolution in farming unfolds, it will increasingly take place away from Canada’s traditional centres of finance and innovation, and closer to end users such as farmers, agronomists and crop insurers. tgam.ca/3SxwiSD
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The company has been testing its pilot robots and is in talks for its first commercial orders. Having raised $4.5-million to date, TechBrew hopes to raise a second round of capital this fall to ramp up production of its robots.
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B.C.’s TechBrew designs and builds robots that can gently pick, trim, clean and pack mushrooms. Because mushrooms double in size every 24 hours, a robot that can pick around the clock can result in up to 20% higher yields. tgam.ca/3SxwiSD
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Many agtech companies have struggled to find investors in Canada who understand the sector.
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Last year, US$6.9-billion in venture capital financing flowed to U.S. agtech companies, while Canadian agtech companies attracted just US$270-million. tgam.ca/3SxwiSD
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While Canada has produced many cutting-edge agtech companies, the country lags the U.S. in financing and developing technologies that can improve farm yields, create new products and slash emissions.
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The term agtech is a catch-all for a lot of different innovations in the agriculture sector and includes everything from vertical farming to remote crop monitoring, alternative proteins and biosciences. tgam.ca/3SxwiSD
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The push to bring tech and agriculture together has taken on new urgency with current disruptions to food supplies from war, supply chain bottlenecks, labour shortages and high prices.
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