/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1645/all en /newsroom/channels/news/experts-joyce-echaquans-death-racism-healthcare-system-325109 <p>Quebec’s coroner’s office will be looking into the death of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous woman from the Atikamekw Nation of Manawan and a mother of seven children, who passed away amid troubling circumstances in a Joliette hospital on Monday, September 28. Before her death, Echaquan took a cellphone video from her hospital bed and livestreamed it on Facebook. Near the end of the video, which lasts around seven minutes, hospital personnel enter the room. The staff members can be heard insulting Echaquan and making derogatory comments about her.</p> Fri, 02 Oct 2020 18:46:06 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 241906 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-health-care-accessory-fees-quebec-260697 <p>The Quebec government has the intention to prohibit all accessory fees in health care. <span>(</span><a href="http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/sante/201605/02/01-4977108-quebec-veut-bannir-les-frais-accessoires.php"><em>La Presse</em></a><span>)</span></p> Mon, 02 May 2016 15:21:03 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 25789 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/leadership-key-care-retention-among-nurses-258093 <p><em><strong>By Cynthia Lee</strong></em></p> <p><a href="/newsroom/"><strong>Newsroom</strong></a></p> <p><span>Nurses faced with abusive managers are more likely to quit. But a recent study by ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University and Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières researchers finds that the opposite is also true – transformational leadership - a style of management in which employees are encouraged  to work towards a collective goal within a supportive milieu, is linked to nurses’ well-being, and has positive impacts upon job retention.</span></p> Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:29:27 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25145 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/how-austerity-measures-impact-health-252982 <p> Tue, 26 May 2015 14:22:42 +0000 melody.enguix@mcgill.ca 24088 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/telus-health-mcgill-announce-research-partnership-226686 Tue, 07 May 2013 15:37:29 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 18622 at /newsroom