Health and Community Services - 2000
January, February,
March, April, May,
June,
July, August, September, October, November,
December
January 12
Government announces amendments to Motor
Carrier regulations
January 17
Teen Tobacco Team begins Tobacco Awareness
Program
Smoke Free Malls
January 19
Funding for Rabbittown Learners Program
January 27
Premier responds to Federal Health Minister Allan
Rock
February 2
NOTE TO EDITORS: News
conference, February 2, Subject Nursing issues
Signing bonus announced for graduating nurses
February 9
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, February 9,
Subject: nursing and union issues
February 15
Policy change means improved lifestyle
for spouses of individuals entering long term care facilities
February 22
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, February 22,
Subject: Human resources in health care
NOTE TO EDITORS: Media briefing cancelled
February 23
NOTE TO EDITORS: Media briefing, February
23, Subject: Human resources in health care
Province seeing improvement in recruitment of health professionals
March 2
NOTE TO EDITORS: News
conference,
March 3, St. John's, Subject: Regarding launching of Healthy Newfoundland and Labrador
Web site
March 3
Healthy Newfoundland and Labrador Better
Information: Better Health
NOTE TO EDITORS: Minister to open
Smoking Prevention Project time capsule, March 6, St. John's
March 6
Class of 2000 Smoking
Prevention Scholarship
March 13
Social Work Week - March 13-17
Newfoundland Cancer Treatment and Research
Foundation achieves its first accreditation with honours
March 14
St. John Ambulance receives funding toward
capital infrastructure campaign
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, March
15, Subject: Funding for breast health care
Premier and minister thank Sister Elizabeth
Davis for years of service to health care field
March 15
Funding announced for comprehensive breast
health centre
March 21
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, March 21,
St. John's Subject:
Support services for Janeway patients and families
Funding announced for Janeway Hostel
March 22
Budget 2000 for the Health of the People
Province to spend over $50 million in new health equipment
Province committing more than $570,000 for dialysis units in St. Anthony and
Clarenville
New air ambulance for province
High priority health programs receive funding
Stabilizing human resources in the health system
Backgrounders
Construction and renovation of health facilities
Government approves $3.5 million Janeway Hostel
$2 million comprehensive breast health centre
March 27
Ministerial Statement - Report on provincial
territorial meeting of ministers of health
March 28
Ministerial Statement - Launch of "Kick
the Nic" program and update on Teen Tobacco Team
March 29
Ministerial Statement - Funding announced for
health research
April 3
Ministerial Statement - Provincial and
territorial ministers of health meet
NOTE TO EDITORS: Notification campaign for
women artificially inseminated at IWK Grace Health Centre, Halifax
April 5
Ministerial Statement - Newfoundland and
Labrador and Nunavut sign Memorandum of Understanding
April 6
Ministerial Statement - Site selections for
Community Youth Network
April 12
Government to proceed with tobacco legislation
April 13
Ministerial Statement - Funding announced for
new cancer centre in Western Region
April 27
National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness
Week
May 1
Ministerial Statement - Summer hospital bed
closures
May 2
Ministerial Statement - Genetic research in Newfoundland and Labrador
May 8
National Palliative Care Week
May 9
Newfoundland and Labrador participating in
national West Nile Virus surveillance program
May 10
Ministerial Statement - Local researchers
leading the way in preventing cervical cancer
May 11
Ministerial Statement - Contract with ambulance
operators
May 12
Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health
Research poised to reap benefits from new funding in health research
May 15
NOTE TO EDITORS: News Conference,
May 16, Subject Health Information Network
May 16
NLCHI to build a provincial client registry
May 25
Hemochromatosis Awareness Week, May 25 - 31
May 29
Work progressing on dialysis units for St.
Anthony and Clarenville
June 6
New funding announced for Newfoundland and
Labrador Drug Information Centre
Health and Community Services prepared for
disaster: Sets up emergency hospital
June 8
Seniors� Month
June 9
Ticker Tom is back with great heart health
messages
June 22
Government reviewing policies and procedures for
public water supplies
July 18
NOTE TO EDITORS: Media availability, July 18,
Subject: Health care issues
Government is spending $6 million to address
cardiac care needs in province
August 30
Minister
comments on rising health care costs
August 31
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, August 31,
Subject: Sir Thomas Roddick Hospital announcement
Minister announces Stephenville hospital tender
call
September
September 8
Department acknowledges Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Day, September 9
September 19
NOTE TO EDITORS: Launch of youth anti-smoking
campaign, September 20, St. John's
September 20
Smoking Sucks
campaign features young people speaking frankly against smoking
September 28
Scholarship winners announced
NOTE TO EDITORS: Official opening of Grace
Sparkes House, September 29, Marystown
September 29
NOTE TO EDITORS: Official opening of Connaigre
Peninsula Health Centre, September 30, Harbour Breton
Shelter for victims of family violence opens in
Marystown
October
October 5
Newfoundland and Labrador to co-chair national
health meetings
October 11
Seniors
Resource Centre - Caregivers, "Out of Isolation"
October 17
Emergency hospital display in Gander
October 20
NOTE TO EDITORS: Ministers to discuss
laboratory and x-ray workers situation, October 20, St. John's
November
November 14
Addictions Awareness Week, November 12-18
November 16
Minister responds to request to apprehend Innu
children
NOTE TO
EDITORS: Ministers available to media, November 16, St. John's, Subject:
Request
from Sheshatshiu Band Council
November 20
NOTE TO EDITORS: Ministers to hold news
conference, November 20, St. John's, Subject: Update on situation in Sheshatshiu
Developments regarding children in Sheshatshiu
December
December 5
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, December 5,
St. John's, Subject: Amendments to tobacco legislation
Minister to introduce amendments to tobacco
legislation
December 11
Ministerial Statement - Health expenditure
trends
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