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Request NumberRequest SummaryDate PostedDepartment
HCS/84/2024[1] I am seeking all correspondence, including but not limited to emails and letters, between the Registered Nurses' Union Newfoundland & Labrador (RNUNL) and the office of Health Minister Tom Osborne.2024-05-28Health and Community Services
HCS/80/2023 1. The criteria that school buildings are inspected against annually 2. Directions, policies, manuals that provide explanation regarding school building inspections 3. Acceptable standards for each criteria for NL and Canadian school buildings 4. School building Reports for the past ten years for Frank Roberts Junior High 2023-06-30Health and Community Services
HCS/90/2023 Records relating to ambulances in Hearts Delight Islington in 2014.2023-07-28Health and Community Services
HCS/40/2023 Records regarding replacing Smith's Ambulance Services as the private ambulance operator for the Whitbourne area. Request includes emails (director level and above), briefing or decision notes, letters sent or received regarding breach of contract/ambulance service agreement, communications materials (key messages, communications plans). Timeframe: January 1, 2023 to present.2023-07-04Health and Community Services
HCS/176/2024 Records that mention the government's policy positions with respect to faith-based organizations opting out of allowing medical assistance in dying within their walls.2024-10-11Health and Community Services
HCS/143/2024 All emails/sent received re the encampment, tent city, Colonial Building, and Bannerman Park by the Minister, Deputy Minister, and Assistant Deputy Ministers from January 1, 2024, to present.2024-06-28Health and Community Services
HCS/12/2024 Please provide the number of covid- 19 vaccines either disposed of or returned to whomever for disposal due to expiration of the dose. If disposed of locally, please provide the details of how and where these vials are properly disposed of.2024-03-14Health and Community Services
HCS/46/2024 How many individuals are registered for the NL Prescription Drug Program "Access Plan"?2024-02-26Health and Community Services
HCS/88/2023 Please provide the monthly breakdown of family physician visits by month for the period January 2019 through to May 2023 across all of Newfoundland and Labrador.2023-06-30Health and Community Services
HCS/232/2024 All correspondence (memos, emails, messages etc.) from June 1st, 2024 to present regarding future use of the current Waterford Hospital facility upon the opening of the new Mental Health & Addictions Centre.2024-10-11Health and Community Services
HCS/178/2023 Provide in writing, the arrangements/agreements, explicit or implied, formal or informal, verbal or written, that were made between the NL provincial and federal governments which allowed Covid 19 vaccines to transfer custody from the federal government to the NL government. Additionally, provide all chain-of-custody documentation related to the Covid 19 vaccines that were distributed to the province between December of 2020 and December of 2022.2024-04-05Health and Community Services
HCS/149/2023 Records relating to a company called Canadian Health Labs, also known as 9059822 Canada Inc. I am seeking documents between Jan. 1, 2021 and the present day.2024-01-24Health and Community Services
HCS/115/2023 All emails sent/received by the Minister, Deputy Minister, and Assistant Deputy Ministers re Registered Nurses Union collective agreement from July 1st, 2023 to present.2024-01-12Health and Community Services
HCS/36/2024 I am requesting the average number of suicides per day in our province broken down by year from 2019-2023.2024-02-26Health and Community Services
HCS/205/2023 Any records that relate to housing and human rights, or housing as a human right, including but not limited to the federal government's National Housing Strategy announcement in November 2017. Date range: November 6, 2017 to December 8, 2017.2024-01-12Health and Community Services
HCS/64/2024 All briefing material, including drafts, prepared for the Minister, Deputy Ministers, Assistant Deputy Ministers in February 2024. 2024-07-30Health and Community Services
HCS/173/2024 Information regarding the provincial funding program for IVF treatments.2024-07-04Health and Community Services
HCS/181/2023 Any and all information that was documented, created, or generated between the period of January 2020 and the date of this ATIPP request, including but not limited to, notes (handwritten or electronic), emails, letters, correspondence, memorandums, reports, or any other documentation pertaining to the administration of hearing and vision screenings for students in K-12 public schools who have been referred for comprehensive assessment.2024-01-15Health and Community Services
HCS/131/2023 I'm like all briefing notes, emails and memos regarding tuberculosis in Newfoundland and Labrador going back 10 years. I'm particularly interested in a breakdown of cases by year and the area they are in.2024-01-12Health and Community Services
HCS/167/2023 All correspondence, internal and external, regarding the closure of the Grace General Hospital, from January 1st, 1999 to October 1st, 2000.2023-12-28Health and Community Services
HCS/117/2023 The name of the person hired through HCS.CON.22.23.1189.2023-12-27Health and Community Services
HCS/161/2023 Records relating to homelessness and/or the tents on Prince Philip Drive and/or tent city and/or housing crisis and/ or rental crisis and/ or hotels and/or short term solutions to address the tents on Prince Philip Drive and/ or long term solutions to address the tents on Prince Philip from October 1, 2023 to October 13, 2023. 2023-11-07Health and Community Services
HCS/71/2022[1] Records pertaining to the advice from the 'Science Table' advising the Government on COVID-19 matters. I am also requesting records relating to comparisons between 'flu and/or influenza' and COVID-19.2023-07-20Health and Community Services
HCS/172/2024 I would like all relevant studies, data, research and related information which was used by Janice Fitzgerald to determine that Covid19 had become mild, and comparable to influenza. Any official documents sent from the federal government, the world health organization, research groups, emails from epidemiologists etc. would be greatly appreciated. Please contact me if you have any questions.2024-09-25Health and Community Services
HCS/221/2024 Information on the cost to the province associated with administering home dialysis treatments, per annualized patient.2024-09-24Health and Community Services
HCS/138/2024 Communications -- in any and all formats, including paper and electronic -- between officials in the department, including the minister, and Wes McLean/Capital Hill Group and/or Select Medical Connections with respect to the regulation of the travel nursing sector and associated topics. Date range of request is March 1, 2024, to the present.2024-05-28Health and Community Services
HCS/142/2023 Any information notes, briefing notes, decision notes, communications, meeting notes concerning diabetes and the diabetes registry. This would be include any diabetes statistics available.2023-10-10Health and Community Services
HCS/208/2024 Any and all communication between the Director of Ambulance services of NLHS Michelle Breen and Jason Letto and Julian Kennedy (both with Health and community services), from the time frame of Jan 1, 2024 to present, pertaining to the provincial ambulance service.2024-09-10Health and Community Services
HCS/133/2024 Please advise the number of patients that were seen by Dr. Healey for the month February 2024 in the Eastern Health Clinic in Holyrood.2024-05-14Health and Community Services
HCS/93/2023 Please provide the number of calls made to "811" service monthly from January 2019 through May 2023.2023-07-04Health and Community Services
HCS/174/2024 All costs re out of province radiation treatment referrals from January 2023, to present.2024-07-10Health and Community Services
HCS/160/2024 Communication from January 2022 to present day with the Registered Nurses Union of NL regarding a Nurse Practitioner funding model.2024-07-04Health and Community Services
HCS/125/2024 Records between Department of Health and Community Services, NL Health Services or any of its predecessors' health Authorities, The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, and The Health Accord NL Taskforce relating to the recommendation for the establishment of an Integrated (road and air) Ambulance Service and the release of RFP # 122012024 (Newfoundland and Labrador Integrated Ambulance Services) and any associated amendments and versions. Timeline: May 2020 to current day.2024-05-28Health and Community Services
HCS/240/2024 Records regarding the 'Autism Action Plan' that was put out by the government in 2019. Specifically, the following: -annual progress reports on the delivery of the Autism Action plan from 2020 until now -a breakdown of what was spent on autism services yearly from 2020 until now, in comparison to what was budgeted.2024-10-11Health and Community Services
HCS/177/2023 I am requesting any records/correspondence to/from NL College of Physicians and Surgeons and/or College of Registered Nurses of NL. Search period is May 1, 2023, to November 7, 2023. Executive Level up to Minister.2023-11-22Health and Community Services
HCS/147/2023 Any and all records related to the replacement of the Waterford Hospital. (August 19, 2020 to the date of this request). Seeking documentation sent to the Minister and any emails from the public.2023-11-22Health and Community Services
HCS/13/2024 All baseline data and collected data and metrics used to set goals for and monitor the government's progress on its goal of making Newfoundland and Labrador one of the healthiest provinces in Canada by 2031.2024-02-27Health and Community Services
HCS/126/2024 Records to the Health Accord NL Taskforce leading to the recommendation of the following "Establish one Provincial Air Ambulance System that would include bases in St. John's and Happy Valley-Goose Bay, medevac services for Labrador, helicopter services which fly 24/7, and one-off out-of-province flights" Timeline: May 2020 to current day.2024-05-28Health and Community Services
HCS/105/2024 All data re number of workers recruited from recruitment trips undertaken since May 1, 2022.2024-05-22Health and Community Services
HCS/112/2024 I would like any and all records, documents, and communications which are related to the total number of long-term care beds available in the province, as well as the total number of those beds occupied, and the changes in that number, over the past two years.2024-05-17Health and Community Services
HCS/247/2024 A breakdown of the 839 nurses recruited regarding where they are from and the place they received their education, including if they are from the province, another province in Canada, or out of country. Also, if they were educated in the province, another province, or out of country.2024-10-16Health and Community Services
HCS/163/2023 Records concerning $15.4M increase to personal care homes.2024-01-24Health and Community Services
HCS/184/2023 Please send all correspondence and documentation via the email provided. We are requesting the following regarding the province's air ambulance program: - total amount paid to the contractors (PAL) & (EVAS) for 2020, 2021, 2022 (broken down by each contractor and year) - total amount paid to the contractors (PAL) & (EVAS) for 2023 year to date - total number of patients moved by the contract aircraft vs Government aircraft for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 (ytd).2023-12-12Health and Community Services
HCS/71/2023 Records relating to private ambulance operators.2023-07-13Health and Community Services
HCS/236/2024 In July of 2024, the government, via engageNL requested statements from stakeholders in the industry to on a variety of proposed to changes to tobacco and vaping regulations in Newfoundland and Labrador. The link for this consultation can be found here : https://www.engagenl.ca/en/amendments-tobacco-and-vaping-related-statutes I am looking for specific information in what was received from this consultation period. 2024-10-16Health and Community Services
HCS/231/2024 I would like to request/know the amount of money per year spent /paid /dispensed by health and community services to the CISSS de la Cote Nord (Quebec) for services provided to residents of Newfoundland and Labrador for the last 5 years ( 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023).2024-10-16Health and Community Services
HCS/45/2024 It's been 2 years since the provincial sugar tax has come into effect. How much tax has been collected? What? if any ,healthy programs have been funded with said monies? How much healthier has it made our people? How much has it decreased hospital visits?2024-03-15Health and Community Services
HCS/34/2024 I am requesting the figure that the Dept of Health/Government of NL paid Hive (ransomware group) in regards to the ransomware attack on Eastern Health in 2021.2024-02-27Health and Community Services
HCS/35/2024 I am requesting the average number of overdoses per day in our province broken down by year from 2019-2023.2024-02-26Health and Community Services
HCS/211/2023 Number of days emergency room closed, and the reasons why if possible, at the Baie Verte hospital from January 1, 2020 up to todays date December 28, 2023.2024-01-12Health and Community Services

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