When a city builds its first new hospital in over 80 years, it's sure to be eagerly anticipated by the public. And it's to be expected that health professionals look forward to working in a state-of-the-art clinical setting. But when ...

Smiling comes easily to Jody Chatterton, especially when she's doing something she loves - working with children. And for the 28 year-old certified Child Life Specialist at Humber River Regional Hospital in Toronto, her participation in a pediatric medical ...

Behind the scenes at one of Canada's largest hospitals is an unseen but essential part of running such an organization: the power plant and its energy management program. In servicing over 2.25 million square feet of facility at the ...

The new Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH), which opened on September 27, 2006, has become an instant design benchmark thanks to its unique child-friendly design approach. From the design to the daily operations of the new facility, the hospital is helping ...

Maureen Riley knows what it's like to be the mother of a newborn child who needs hospitalization. Riley's son Sullivan was born 13 weeks early, weighing just over a pound, and spent four months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ...

Many managers of aging Canadian health-care facilities are beginning to see the benefits of changing old buildings into innovative and green health-care environments. This is exactly what happened with Ste-Anne Hospital in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, where the clients and ARCOP architects ...

A northern Ontario breast cancer patient is now confident about her treatment plan thanks to telemedicine capabilities at Kingston General Hospital (KGH). A meeting between the Moose Factory, Ontario woman and medical oncologist Dr. Yolanda Madarnas took place recently via videoconference ...

The Group for the Improvement of Intestinal Function and Treatment (GIFT) at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is the first formal multidisciplinary team in Canada dedicated to the treatment and research of intestinal failure in children. A mere three ...