| HCS/25/2015 | Any information on birth rate, death rate as well as any briefing notes, information notes, discussion papers, fact sheets on in-vitro fertilization (from 2013-onward). | 2015-04-08 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/23/2015 | A detailed breakdown of the payments made through the adult dental program (dentures, basic services) for Fiscal year 2014-15. This should also include a breakdown of the number of people who have availed of these programs. I would also like to know how long it is currently taking to process these claims. | 2015-04-08 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/17/2015 | Provide the name of your Telehealth Coordinator and how long this person has been in this position. In addition, out of the last 60 months, how many months has this position been vacant? | 2015-03-25 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/9/2015 | The amount this government spent on Mental Health & Addictions in 2013-14. Please separate out capital expenditures from current expenditures. Please provide the areas of investment, line by line. | 2015-03-25 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/31/2012 | All records and correspondence, including emails, concerning donations or other financial contributions made by the Department of Health to (a) the Sir Thomas Roddick Hospital Foundation, (b) the Western Regional Hospital Foundation, or (c) any other hospital foundation in the province, since January 1, 2009. | 2013-05-28 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/5/2015 | Total cost for the Premier's Health Forums and Summit, with a detailed breakdown of all budgetary costing relating to these events, including locations, # attendees and expense breakdown, the number of public employees that attended each event and the HR costing related to it. | 2015-03-25 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/46/2014 | Information relating to prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in Newfoundland and Labrador for the last five (5) years. | 2014-11-12 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/5/2013 | Rate and number of cases dealing with types of in-hospital mortality, readmissions, trauma, etc. (2009-2012). Emergency Department (ED) wait times according to length of stay in ED (2009 ? present). Rate and number of hospital-acquired MRSA, C-Defficile and VRE infection (2009 ? present). | 2013-04-23 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/33/2014 | Briefing notes, information notes, discussion papers and/or reports on Electronic Medical Records (EMR), completed since April 2013. | 2014-09-22 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/31/2014 | The amount of money spent on the Family Caregivers program to date, out of the $8.3 Million Budget as well as the number of clients currently availing of this program. | 2014-08-28 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/25/2014 | An update on the status of all Cameron Inquiry recommendations. | 2014-08-08 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/41/2014 | An update as well as any briefing notes, information notes, etc. on the civil lawsuit against tobacco manufacturers to recover costs dating back to the 1950s. | 2014-11-18 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/14/2013 | Amounts paid by the provincial health insurance plan to hospitals, health facilities preferred providers for mental health and addiction services (including but not limited to services for the treatment of eating disorders & drug and alcohol dependency). | 2013-06-14 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/31/2012 | All records and correspondence, including emails, concerning donations or other financial contributions made by the Department of Health to (a) the Sir Thomas Roddick Hospital Foundation, (b) the Western Regional Hospital Foundation, or (c) any other hospital foundation in the province, since January 1, 2009. | 2013-05-28 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/15/2014 | Amounts paid, either directly or through other billing arrangements by for mental health and addiction services rendered to insured persons while outside the province. | 2014-08-11 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/3/2013 | A copy of the letter that the City of Corner Brook sent to the government regarding the Corner Brook hospital in the fall of 2012 as well as a copy of the government's response(s) to it. | 2013-04-23 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/1/2013 | Obtain a copy of the Master Plan for the construction of a new regional hospital to be built in Corner Brook including all reports, memoranda, diagrams, manuals, emails, spreadsheets, and other records in the possession of the Department of Health and Community Services, its predecessor departments, or any other government agencies, including financial and accounting information, budgets, cost estimates, engineering particulars, design specifications, facility requirements which were created between January 1, 2004 to present. | 2013-04-23 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/13/2013 | All records pertaining to the Discharge Abstract Database and the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System for acute care hospitals in Newfoundland, submitted to the health ministry and/or the health minister and/or Newfoundland hospitals by the Canadian Institute for Health Information for the most recent reporting year. | 2013-06-12 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/37/2014 | As a follow up to the Out of Province Claims System report dated 2014-05-26, please provide a breakdown of the number of people sent out of province, to what facilities, broken down by Regional Health Authority. | 2014-09-18 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/47/2014 | A final copy of the $500,000 provincial radiation services study. If the final copy is not yet complete, please provide a status update on the study, any supporting documentation, the reasons the consultant was delayed in completing this document. I am also requesting the latest draft copy of the report. | 2015-01-27 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/7/2013 | The Minister's briefing book includes a note entitled "Long-Term Care and Community Support Services (LTC CSS) Strategy Update" dated February 8, 2013. Therein, it states: "Since 2006, the Provincial Government has invested over $380 million, which includes $241 million in new and existing long term care facilities." Please provide a breakdown of that $241 million, detailing which facilities received funding, how much each facility received, for what, and which companies were awarded these contracts. Please also list all new long term care facilities underway with estimated total costs by project and timelines. | 2013-05-08 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/42/2014 | A status update on each of the recommendations made by the Child and Youth Advocate to your department since 2012. | 2014-12-16 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/3/2014 | A copy of any and all assessments completed on PET scanners completed for or used by government in making the decision to provide PET services to the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. | 2014-03-27 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/14/2014 | A copy of all letters written by the Minister of Health and Community Services, dated between Oct 1, 2013 and Nov 31, 2013. | 2014-05-05 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/12/2014 | Information on any poll/survey that was completed in Central Newfoundland that stated the percentage of people that would/not be interested in travelling to Corner Brook to receive treatment. | 2014-03-11 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/18/2013 | All expenses associated with Health Care Funding announcement at Curtis Memorial Hospital on Monday, May 27th, 2013, including Minister McGrath, Minister Sullivan, CEO Tony Wakeham and all associated staff travel and set-up costs. | 2013-08-19 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/4/2013[1] | All documents related to requests by CBC News and/or CBC Television and/or the fifth estate: for permission to obtain hospital-specific date from the Canadian Institute for Health information (CIHI); to hospitals to complete CBC's hospital survey as part of the project entitled "Vital Signs: Inside Canada's Hospitals; All documents related to the plans by CBC News and/or CBC Television and/or the fifth estate to produce an Internet-based resource that rates hospitals.??? | 2013-06-05 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/43/2014 | A copy of the training requirements for an ABA therapist to provide treatment to children diagnosed with ASD A copy of the training manual as well as associated policies and procedures regarding sensory rooms in schools and the Occupational Therapists involvement in the formulation of a plan for the children requiring the use of these rooms A status update on the 11 recommendations that were made in May 2005 from the "Provincial Autism Pilot Project: An Early Intervention study from 1999-2005 - Program Evaluation." A copy of any and all program evaluations that have been done on Early Intervention since 2005. | 2014-11-18 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/30/2014 | A copy of the budget binder which was prepared for the Minister and his officials for the 2014-15 budget year and used in the Department of Health & Community Services estimates meetings in the Spring of 2014. | 2014-09-10 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/38/2014 | A copy of briefing notes, information notes, etc. on mental health and addiction facilities being built in the province, including a project update on each of: Harbour Grace, Grand Falls-Windsor, Paradise. | 2014-09-22 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/8/2014 | Details regarding the family caregiver program. | 2014-03-27 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/9/2014 | Details on Special Authorizations to the Newfoundland and Labrador Prescription Drug Program (NLPDP) 2012-13 as well as 2013-14, to date. | 2014-03-27 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/44/2014 | Correspondence from the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association (CLHIA), from March 24, 2014 to present relating to the paper published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, by Dr. Michael Law and colleagues titled, "The increasing inefficiency of private health insurance in Canada." | 2014-11-12 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/2/2013[1] | Correspondence between the Department of Health & Community Services and Avalon Laser health re: Thermography. Date range of request is Nov.1,2012 to the present.??? | 2013-06-13 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/6/2014 | Correspondence between the department and the Quality Living Alliance for Seniors. Date range of request is Jan. 1, 2012-present. | 2014-03-28 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/1/2014 | Correspondence between the department and RHAs about personal care homes' non-compliance with Standard 1-1.2, Section 5 of the Provincial Personal Care Home Program Operational Standards for charging above the provincial subsidy rate. | 2014-05-13 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/10/2013 | Copy of an Executive Note submitted by Larry Alteen to the Executive of Health and Community Services in the month of December 2012 or January 2013 regarding the Provincial Physician Recruitment Coordinator Position of the NLHBA regarding the plan not to fill the position or other program development initiatives. Copy of all current and deleted emails that were sent to and received from files that have been written by Dan Fitzgerald to Larry Alteen or written by Larry Alteen to Dan Fitzgerald between November 1, 2012 to January 31, 2013. | 2013-05-28 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/21/2013 | List of all agreements currently in force with drug manufacturers regarding the listing of drugs on the provincial formulary. | 2014-01-15 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/22/2014 | Information relating to the 900 mental health and additions health care workers referenced in the April 16, 2014 news release in which the Provincial Government stated that it provides approximately $100 million annually to support over 900 mental health and addictions health care workers, services and programs provided by the four regional health authorities. | 2014-07-08 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/19/2014 | Information relating to subsequent entry biologics, SEBs, follow on biologics or biosimilars dated from January 1, 2012, until the date of this request. | 2014-06-11 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/35/2014 | Briefing notes, information notes, financial analyses, discussion papers and/or reports on Community Care Homes. | 2014-09-22 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/36/2014 | Briefing notes, information notes, discussion papers and/or reports on autism, since January 2014. Please include the number of children receiving supports through the ABE program, and the breakdown by age. | 2014-09-22 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/19/2013 | I would like the yearly billings of Dr. Louis Bourget to the department of health. I would like those billings to include all pay, flights, housing and incidentals charged. I am looking for billings charged per fiscal year within the timeline of January 1, 2008 to the present. | 2013-10-07 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/20/2014 | Any departmental documents or correspondence (electronic or by letter) discussing the feasibility or logistics of amalgamating regional health authorities in Newfoundland and Labrador, covering the period of 2010 to April 8, 2014. | 2014-06-27 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/27/2014 | Any briefing notes, information sheets, documents regarding a diabetes registry for the province, compiled in the last 2 years. | 2014-08-01 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/24/2014 | Any briefing notes, information sheets, documents compiled on the Health Accord, dating back no further than Feb 22, 2012. | 2014-09-10 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/40/2014 | Any briefing materials on the topic of "Red Alerts" (ambulance availability on the Northeast Avalon) and correspondence of dept. and Eastern Health on the topic. Date range Aug.1, 2013 to present. | 2014-12-02 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/9/2013 | Any and all documents including reports, correspondence, policy papers or studies on implementing a junk food tax (sometimes called a sugar tax or fat tax) in Newfoundland and Labrador. | 2013-05-22 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/23/2014 | Financial statements, audited books and annual reports submitted by Iris Kirby House including annual records of revenues and expenditures for 2000-2013. | 2014-06-27 | Health and Community Services |
| HCS/32/2014 | Records relating to radiation services for the province, including Western Regional Health Authority, completed since April 22, 2014. | 2014-10-22 | Health and Community Services |
