Seniors occupy an ever-increasing proportion of acute-care hospital beds, and with current demographic trends, the situation will increase even more in the future. But if families can help their senior loved one prepare in advance for a trip to the ...

Volunteers have been a valued part of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s busy Emergency Department (ED) for many years. Almost 50 individuals volunteer in the ED on a regular basis, directing patients and providing comfort. However, in recent years these Volunteers ...

Margareta Rawlins was a bit anxious but mostly excited when she heard her husband, who was receiving care atSt. Joseph’s Regional Mental Health Care London (RMHCL) was going to be transferred to a hospital close to their home town ofCambridge. ...

This year marks 30 years since AIDS was first identified. Thanks to marvellous treatment advances—most significantly, the introduction of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) in the mid-1990s—what was once an overwhelmingly fatal disease can now be largely managed well into ...

The overhead pager urgently repeated the words that signaled the need for assistance with a violent patient. Security staff rushed to the room; a nurse was cornered by an enraged elderly patient who was shouting and beating his fists in ...