Expert recommendations will improve
stroke care and prevent deaths
OTTAWA, December 7, 2006
New expert recommendations for improving stroke care
in Canada the Canadian Best Practice Recommendations
for Stroke Care: 2006 were released today by the
Canadian Stroke Network (CSN) and the Heart and Stroke
Foundation of Canada (HSFC).
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Stroke strategy, fast thinking save
Summerside man
September 26, 2006
Ryan Noye of Summerside may be one of the first Islanders
to benefit from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of
P.E.I.'s recently launched Integrated Stroke Strategy.
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Billions of dollars, tens of thousands of lives at
stake - Why aren't proven stroke solutions being used
consistently in Canada?
OTTAWA - June 14, 2006
Widespread access to organized stroke care could prevent
more than 160,000 strokes, prevent disability in 60,000
Canadians and save $8 billion net in health-care costs
over the next 20 years in Canada, according to an
economic analysis released today by the Canadian Stroke
Network (CSN) and the Heart and Stroke Foundation
of Canada (HSF).
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Manitoba making steady progress towards
coordinated stroke care
WINNIPEG - June 14, 2006
An economic analysis released today by the Canadian
Stroke Network (CSN) and the Heart and Stroke Foundation
of Canada (HSF) predicts coordinated stroke care could
prevent more than 160,000 strokes, prevent disability
in 60,000 Canadians and save $8 billion net in health-care
costs over the next 20 years in Canada.
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Stroke: A Poster Child for Health System
Reform
OTTAWA, February 25, 2006
With a minority government in place, the Tories now
have an opportunity to deliver. And, as a start, they
should look no further than Prime Minister Stephen
Harper’s home province for clues to the way
forward.
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Prominent Canadians to Guide Much-Needed
Changes to Stroke Prevention, Care and Treatment in
Canada
OTTAWA - July 15, 2005
A group of prominent Canadians, led by Kenneth Fyke,
who headed Saskatchewan’s 2001 Commission on
Medicare, will oversee a major national effort to
change the way stroke is managed in this country.
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