{"id":504045,"date":"2026-02-27T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504045\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:23:09","slug":"quorum-2026-to-explore-health-care-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/504045\/","title":{"rendered":"Quorum 2026 to Explore Health Care Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/colt-politi.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Quorum 2026 to Explore Health Care Issues\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Colt Politte Executive Director Quadrangle \/ VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The issue of health will be front and center today as the group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thequadnl.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quadrangle<\/a> opens an event called Quorum 2026. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in partnership with the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University and is set for tomorrow at 1:00 PM in the Dr. Richard Fagan Lecture Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the provincial and federal governments will be there, as well as NL Health Services.<\/p>\n<p>Executive director of Quadrangle Colt Politte says the theme of the event came from the faculty of medicine. They say health care has been a sticking point for a lot of folks in the queer and trans communities in terms of feeling safe and feeling seen when you walk into a medical office. <\/p>\n<p>There is both an in-person and virtual component for the forum, which goes through Sunday with a number of workshops and panels. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Colt Politte Executive Director Quadrangle \/ VOCM News) The issue of health will be front and center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-504045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}