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Expanding on the initial Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act, 1957, the Medical Care Act, 1966, offered to cover half of all provincial and territorial expenditures on medical services provided by doctors outside of hospitals.
In an attempt to control health care spending in the province the Liberal government under Premier W. Ross Thatcher discontinues health clinic contracts to provide minor surgery along with a number of laboratory, x-ray, and physiotherapy contracts. Due to the loss of revenues as a result of these cuts clinics start running increasing budgetary deficits, weakening the community clinic movement as a whole. By 1972 only 10 of the original 25 CHSA’s are still in operation.
The sixteenth provincial general election is held on October 11th.
The Wascana Rehabilitation Centre opened in 1968, after the amalgamation of the Physical Rehabilitation Centre and the Provincial Geriatric Centre. It became part of the Regina Qu'appelle Health region in 2002, and currently has 307 beds.
In order to facilitate studies to prove their worth the Saskatoon Community Health Association creates this Foundation as a charity to provide research into the delivery of medical care in the province. While subsequent reports from the Foundation fail to impress the provincial Thatcher government, the federal government takes an ongoing interest and provides funding to research various health related issues.
The hospital portion of the institute provides 135 acute-care patient beds, while the psychiatric centre accommodates 60 in-patients.
Photo shows the laboratory at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon.
In 1970, after 64 years of operation, the Moose Jaw Union Hospital (formerly called the Moose Jaw General Hospital) was closed by the provincial government. The Nursing School was also closed during this time.
The Cobalt machine at the Alan Blair Clinic in the Grey Nuns Hospital, Regina.
Due, in large part, to the success of the “Saskatchewan Plan” the mental health in-patient population drops so markedly that Saskatchewan Hospital Weyburn is “phased over” into a psychiatric centre 63 primary beds and a 300 bed extended care facility.
The seventeenth provincial general election is held on June 23rd.
Held in the home of Don Murdoch. The group officially names itself the Atropos Friendship Society which eventually evolves into the Gay and Lesbian Community of Regina (GLCR). It is Canada’s oldest continuously running LGBT organization.
This represents the first effort to reduce smoking in shared, public spaces.
The Plains Health Centre opened in Regina in 1974. The building was under construction for four years, beginning on July 9th 1970 with the Groundbreaking Ceremonies. The Centre had 303 beds and was the first hospital in Canada with primarily single-room accommodations, and served as a resource hub for south-eastern rural hospitals in Saskatchewan. In the 1992 "Report on More Effective Hospital Care for Regina", otherwise known as the Atkinson Report, the Plains Health Centre was recommended for closure. The Centre was closed in 1998. To learn more about the Atkinson Report, click "Find Out More" below.
The universal Drug Plan is available to all residents and is intended to subsidize the cost of prescription drugs through a flat co-payment. Due to the rising costs of pharmaceuticals however, the payment required by users of the Drug Plan is soon revised to reflect individual deductibles based on income level. This marks the first universal drug plan of its kind in Canada.
First outlined as a possibility in the 1952 Saskatchewan Health Survey, the Plan (established by the NDP Blakeney government) provides universal dental coverage for all children in the province between the ages of 4 and 13. It quickly raises the standard of dental care and hygiene in Saskatchewan to one of the highest in North America. Despite its perceived success the Plan is terminated in 1987 by the Progressive Conservative government under Premier Grant Devine, 400 program employees being laid off in the process.
Formed on January 19, 1974 with a unanimous vote by the province’s nurses. By the end of the same year SUN becomes the official bargaining agent for nurses in 76 hospitals and 5 nursing homes in Saskatchewan with a total membership of 2,500.
The report highlights two main objectives: the health care system and the prevention of health problems and the promotion of health, to be integrated for the increased health of all Canadians. (15) Defining the four major components of the health field as: human biology, health care systems, environment and lifestyle, the report marked the first stage of health promotion in Canada. The paper argued that many socioeconomic factors function as determinants of health and that the biomedical health care model should be adapted to encompass these modern theories in order to achieve a higher level of population health for all individuals.
The eighteenth provincial general election is held on June 11th.
Nurses perform a fitness test at the Regina Pasqua Hospital in October of 1976.
Instruction and treatment at the Saskatchewan dental facilities located in the Regina General Hospital.
A laboratory scientist shows the incubation of the Swine flu virus in eggs.
A young patient visits a dentist at the La Ronge Dental Clinic.
The Saskatchewan Association on Human Rights sponsors the “largest gay rights demonstration ever held on the prairies” at the Saskatchewan Legislature in Regina. 125 supporters attend.
Contracted by the Department of Northern Affairs Saskatchewan and Health and Welfare Canada, the Saskatoon CHSA creates an optometry program for Saskatchewan North. This is part of the Association’s push to expand medical services beyond its traditional base and provide programs devised specifically for “new immigrants,” Aboriginal peoples, and the poor.
The telethon receives an overwhelming amount of support and becomes an annual event that sets new records for “per capita giving”.
The purpose of this legislation is to outline privacy guidelines. To view the most recent version of this act, click "Find out more".
This legislation prevents premiums from being applied under the Saskatchewan Hospitalization Act or the Saskatchewan Medical Care insurance act. To view the most recent version of this legislation, click "Find out more".
The nineteenth provincial general election is held on October 18th.
The purpose of this legislation is to provide protection from liability for medical professionals providing care in emergency situations. To view the most recent version of this act, click "Find out more".
The purpose of this legislation is to provide the authority for community clinics to operate in Saskatchewan. To view the most recent version of this legislation, click "Find out more".
The purpose of this legislation is to provide the authority for the creation of public health standards. To view the most recent version of the act, click "Find out more".
The purpose of this legislation is to outline the service standards to be met within hospitals. To view the most recent version of this act, click "Find out more:.
The purpose of this legislation is to provide authority for the management of the provincial drug subsidy plan. To view the most recent version of this act, click "Find out more".
The Act transfers all legal authority over expenditures, research, committees, laboratories, and other activities for the benefit of the health system, to the responsibility of the Saskatchewan Minister of Health.
Based on recommendations from the 1974 Lalonde Report, the federal Department of National Health and Welfare creates the Health Promotion Directorate. The Directorate legitimizes health promotion as a federal bureaucratic structure and introduces several initiatives. One such initiative tackles impaired driving and encourages the wearing of seat belts.
The purpose of this legislation is to provide for the granting of assistance - financial, goods and services, health and burial coverage, etc. - to persons in need. To view the most recent version of the act, click "Find out more".
The purpose of this legislation is to regulate the provision of dental services. To view the most recent version of this act, click "Find out more".
This legislation outlines the guidelines by which the optician profession is permitted to self-regulate.
This legislation provides authority for the province's medical care insurance program and the payment of physicians. To view the most recent version of the act, click "Find out more".
This piece of legislation outlines the guidelines by which the Chiropody and Podiatry professions are permitted to self-regulate. To view the most recent version of this act, click "Find out more".
This piece of legislation was passed in order to regulate human tissue (i.e. organs, etc. excluding skin, bone, blood, blood constituent or other tissue that is capable of regeneration via natural processes) donations. Click on "Find out more" to view the most recent copy of this legislation.
This legislation was passed to regulate the practice of naturopathic medicine. To view the most recent version of the act, click on "Find out more:.
This legislation outlines the guidelines by which a person in need of rehabilitation services can receive financial assistance for these services from the provincial government. To view the most recent version of this act, click "Find out more".
The purpose of this legislation is to establish the Saskatchewan Cancer Foundation and to outline the means by which it is funded. To view the most recent version of this act, click "Find out more".
In 1980, females in Saskatchewan have a life expectancy of 79.9 years, while males average a 7 year lower life expectancy, of 72.5 years old.
Infant mortality rates average 11.3 deaths per 1000 live births.
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