
Leadership Message
Every day, Nova Scotia Health Authority’s 30,000-plus employees, doctors, volunteers, and learners come to work with a desire to make a difference, and they do. MORE
Every day, Nova Scotia Health Authority’s 30,000-plus employees, doctors, volunteers, and learners come to work with a desire to make a difference, and they do. MORE
Healthy people, healthy communities - for generations.
This report provides an overview of activities for the year ending. March 31, 2019.
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Healthier Together is our plan to help Nova Scotians be healthy and stay healthy. Following our three strategic directions will help guide us to this future.
NSHA will deliver a person-centred, high-quality, safe, accessible, equitable and sustainable health and wellness system through a focus on performance, accountability, education, research and innovation.
Learn MoreNSHA will create a positive and healthy organizational culture that enables employees, physicians, learners and volunteers to support the health and wellness of Nova Scotians.
Learn MoreNSHA will engage Nova Scotians to promote and support our shared accountability for health and improvement in health status.
Learn MoreOur progress toward a healthier Nova Scotia is best demonstrated through the stories of those who work with us, and those we serve.
"If you follow them (exercise plans), you can see progress; you can see the progression of the knee coming back."
When Chase Cromwell was diagnosed with dementia, his wife chose to care for him in their home.
When a person who is addicted to intravenous drugs lands in hospital with a serious health issue, staff have a double-barrelled crisis on their hands
NSHA is working to build an enhanced patient room service model and a provincial menu that offer what patients want, when they want it.
Most people know what to expect when they go for an appointment with their primary care provider.
Thanks to significant investment in cancer care announced by government in the past year, planning for new cancer centres in Halifax and Sydney is underway.
The Shelburne collaborative family practice team opened the doors of its new primary health care clinic to patients in early February.
Ann Bannon remembers lying in an intensive care bed, too weak to brush her own teeth. A year later, she is back to full-time work and is living an active life. She credits her recovery in large part to the early mobility initiative at the QEII Halifax Infirmary’s ICU.
Cultural safety training has shifted the way Public Health thinks about working with and providing service to Indigenous clients and communities.
Just out of high school, Allison was five months pregnant and living in a tent with her boyfriend, with no clear support or path to change. Public Health’s Early Years team helped equip this resilient, determined mom for parenthood.
Researchers are taking a proactive approach with initiatives to prescribe exercise to improve health; address the special needs of cancer patients and survivors; and protect aging brains from anesthesia risk.
Remote technology is allowing patients to be monitored from a distance, thanks to leading work by NSHA researchers.
Cancer patients and the public help identify gaps in care, barriers to accessing treatment, and patient education needs.
With NSHA’s Strategic Plan, Healthier Together, set to expire in 2019, the organization undertook a renewal of the plan beginning in January 2019, including wide-reaching engagement.
Through the VolunTEEN Wellness Program at Cape Breton Regional Hospital, high school students receive training on how to help patients.
“Panorama is an electronic public health records system that offers secure access to immunization information in real time.”
Every day, Nova Scotia Health Authority’s 30,000-plus employees, doctors, volunteers, and learners come to work with a desire to make a difference, and they do.
Thousands of Nova Scotians, and others from across Atlantic Canada, receive exceptional and compassionate care and service. Our efforts to continually improve the quality of care and service we provide are driven by one underlying principle, caring about the people we serve.
Throughout this report, you will find stories of care, compassion, collaboration and innovation. Stories like:
There are countless more.
We face challenges. Nova Scotia has among the highest rates of preventable, chronic diseases and among the worst health outcomes in the country. Our population is aging, and our workforce is changing too. More care providers are retiring as global demand for them increases, making vacancies difficult to fill. Needs, demands and expectations sometimes outpace available resources.
We understand that some Nova Scotians don’t have a family doctor or nurse practitioner, or are waiting too long for mental health care, a test or procedure or a nursing home bed. This is not the experience we want for Nova Scotians. It’s what makes our efforts to create a more responsive and sustainable health system so important.
Creation of an integrated province-wide health authority in 2015 was just a beginning. There’s much more to do, but we are working to build a health system Nova Scotians can rely on – one that supports us to be healthy and one we can depend on to access the care and support we need. Our focus is on improving timely access to community-based care and services and realigning our resources with a focus on the right care, by the right provider, in the right place, at the right time.
We are pleased to share some updates on our progress in this report, including efforts to:
Implementing large-scale change in a complex, integrated system, across a broad and diverse demographic and geography, takes time. As a teaching and research organization, we are committed to ensuring the decisions we make are thoughtful and well planned, and incorporate advances in science and technology, best practices, and the needs of the population into how we deliver safe, quality and appropriate care.
We share a common goal of supporting the delivery of health services in our communities and improving the lives of Nova Scotians. As we reflect on 2018-19, our fourth year as a province-wide organization, we see many wonderful examples of the commitment of our teams and partners to improve health, care and access for all Nova Scotians. The stories in this report show us what’s possible if – fueled by caring – we work together, are open to change and embrace the possibilities before us.
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