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Reducing client-handling musculoskeletal disorders
Reducing client-handling musculoskeletal disorders

Providence Healthcare is a leading Toronto health care facility that offers rehabilitation, palliative care, outpatient clinics and services, caregiver support and long-term care. Providence is the perfect example of an organization taking steps to make their workplace safer for employees ...


Keeping fit in a high-stress environment
Keeping fit in a high-stress environment

The first doctor I ever knew had his jet-black hair slicked back in a way that made him look like Dracula. For many years my younger sister and I went to him for checkups. His hair aside, what I remember ...


Fraser Health enhances info for surgical patients including Soonest Surgery Tool
Fraser Health enhances info for surgical patients
including Soonest Surgery Tool

The Soonest Surgery Tool predicts the five surgeons in Fraser Health most likely able to perform a specific surgical procedure sooner than others. This tool is just one of the features in a new section of Fraser Health’s website that ...

Posted: January 16, 2012|Current Print Issue, Patient Care, Surgery|0 comments

Bluewater Health opens new cancer care assessment and treatment centre
Bluewater Health opens new cancer care assessment and
treatment centre

Just imagine...it might be cancer. The prospect of a cancer diagnosis is perhaps one of the most anxious times anyone could face. Cancer care can be fraught with diagnostic procedures, appointment and treatment delays, fear of the unknown and a complicated ...


Stop talking, start doing: The pursuit of wellness while you work
Stop talking, start doing: The pursuit of wellness while
you work

Happiness is a skill. One day. Twenty-four hours. 1,440 minutes. 86,400 seconds. How much time do you dedicate to your own happiness in one day? For Velta Vikmanis, at least 30 minutes.  Vikmanis, Coordinator, Nursing Transitions and Commitment, University Health Network (UHN), wears many hats while ...