Articles By: Michelle Tadique

St. Joseph's Leadership Development Program
St. Joseph’s Health Centre’s Leadership Development
Program gives leaders the tools they need for success

The Leadership Development Program at St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, enables our management team to enhance their leadership capabilities and competencies and gives them the tools they need to be successful in their roles. Providing this important program to our ...

Posted: January 11, 2013|Education and Professional Development|0 comments

Expanded Family Birthing Centre offers more space and capacity to care for more moms and babies
Expanded Family Birthing Centre offers more space and
capacity to care for more moms and babies

The new Family Birthing Centre at St. Joseph's Health Centre is addressing the growing need for obstetrical care in Toronto’s West end with increased capacity to welcome 4,000 new babies into this world every year. This summer, St. Joseph's Health Centre ...

Posted: December 18, 2012|Obstetrics & Gynaecology|0 comments

Executive patient experience rounds put patients first
Executive patient experience rounds put patients first

Most people would agree that the last place they want to be is in the hospital. But unfortunately, there comes a point in everyone’s life when they need to be treated in hospital for health-related issues. Here at St. Joseph’s ...

Posted: November 23, 2012|Featured, Patient Care|0 comments

Enhancing interprofessional care for Diabetes Clinic patients
Enhancing interprofessional care for Diabetes
Clinic patients

  St. Joseph's Health Centre’s Diabetes Clinic team is using new strategies that are enhancing their interprofessional approach to care, which have improved wait times for clinic appointments, improved the patient care experience and increased staff satisfaction. Over the past two years, ...

Posted: October 30, 2012|Diseases, Patient Care|0 comments

Working to reduce hospital acquired infections
Working to reduce hospital acquired infections

Reducing hospital acquired infections, such as Clostridium difficile, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and ventilator-associated pneumonia, to name a few, is a priority at St. Joseph’s Health Centre. With the arrival of Dr. Jennie Johnstone, the new Infection Control Officer and Dr. ...

Posted: September 13, 2012|Featured, Infection Control, Patient and Staff Safety|2 comments

Staff practice their response to emergencies and disasters
Staff practice their response to emergencies
and disasters

We all know that disaster can strike at any time. A raging fire in a nearby neighbourhood, a plane crash at an airport, or the threat of wide spread illness within the community can send a hospital into an emergency ...

Posted: August 9, 2012|Emergency Medicine, Patient and Staff Safety|0 comments

Interprofessional education and orientation in oncology clinic
Interprofessional education and orientation in
oncology clinic

Despite the advances occurring in medicine, being told that you have cancer would be devastating to anyone. One of the most important things that must be done is to ensure that cancer patients are well supported and that they receive ...

Posted: June 1, 2011|Oncology, Patient Care|0 comments

Formal designation increases access to hepatic, pancreatic and biliary tract surgery
Formal designation increases access to hepatic,
pancreatic and biliary tract surgery

St. Joseph’s Health Centre Toronto (St. Joe’s) has been formally recognized by Cancer Care Ontario as a designated site in the province for Hepatic, Pancreatic and Biliary Tract (HPB) surgery. This designation gives them the ability to increase access to ...

Posted: May 1, 2011|Oncology, Surgery|0 comments

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