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Rouge Valley offers surgical follow-up over Skype
Registered practice nurse Zou Jaijai connects with a patient online via Skype for a follow-up appointment after his surgery. A new program offered for surgical programs at Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS) is allowing patients to get the follow-up care ...
Rouge Valley asks community to Be A Donor
Be A Donor (left to right): Rik Ganderton, President & CEO, RVHS; the Gibson family (Muriel, Brandon, Emily, Krystyna and David); with Ronnie Gavsie, President & CEO, Trillium Gift of Life Network, hold Trillium's flag during the April ...
Why big changes are needed in our health
care “system”
This blog may be considered controversial by some and beyond the purview of a hospital CEO. I am writing it because, as a leader in the system I need to communicate the valid need for change and what is driving ...
Creativity and innovation in fundraising
Whether it’s jumping into frigid Lake Ontario on January 1, playing cards with a world poker champion, or racing down the street pushing hospital beds in full costume, the people who support Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS) are all about ...
Age-old treatment ‘crawls’ its way back into modern
medicine at Rouge Valley
They’re creepy. They’re crawly. But for one Scarborough resident, maggots may have helped to save his leg. When 59-year old Waclaw Tyszkiewicz’s tried to treat a callus on his right foot himself, days later it began to worsen. It grew more ...
Real time locating system leads to improvements in
emergency department
As Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering (RVAP) prepared to open its new 20,000 square-foot emergency department (ED) in 2009, we were faced with a new dilemma: How would we track the flow of patients in multiple areas of the ED ...
Taking charge of your child’s speech and
language development
When Sooriyakanthy Gnanasooriyar’s son, Ajethan, turned two years old and could not yet speak, she knew something was wrong. “He was not yet talking. He could only say ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’. If he wanted to tell me something, he could only ...
Winning Rouge Valley proposal to help prioritize
patients’ surgical procedures
An innovative computer program to prioritize surgical procedures at Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS) has earned the hospital a $10,000 grant from Cancer Care Ontario (CCO). The winning proposal was submitted as part of CCO’s ‘The Operating Room’ competition, which was ...
Bringing much-needed paediatric rheumatology care closer
to home
When eight-year-old Catalina Bursey began complaining of pain in her knees, her parents attributed it to an injury she may have received during one of cheerleading competitions. But when Catalina woke up one morning with pain so unbearable that she couldn’t ...
New musculoskeletal policy helps keep staff safe
Thanks to improvements being made to the Rouge Valley Health System musculoskeletal program, fewer staff members at the hospital’s two campuses are experiencing job-related injuries. The most recent statistics show that musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries – typically injuries sustained in the hands, ...
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Campbellford Memorial Hospital Physiotherapists Have a Unique Perspective on Safety
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RVH’s rehab team gets man back into the game of life
Cliff Robinson played too many games of golf. Or that’s what the avid golfer thought when his shoulder began giving him grief. Very [...]
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Collaborative approach proves a winning formula in falls prevention
According to Health Canada, falls are by far the most common cause of major injury for seniors in Ontario, accounting for 90 per [...]
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Gift of donated cornea changes a life
The gift of vision changed Jennifer Barton’s life. The effects of chronic eye rubbing as a child from uncontrolled allergies left Jennifer with [...]
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St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton & Baxter Partner to Employ Technology to Empower Dialysis Patients
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Meeting Patient Needs with Runnymede’s LTLD Rehabilitation Program
May 14, 2013, will mark the one year anniversary of the opening of the Low Tolerance Long Duration (LTLD) Rehabilitation program at Runnymede [...]
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Dr. Ron Wald researching best approach to dialysis
During his training as a nephrologist, Dr. Ron Wald became interested in conducting clinical trials to determine the best way to treat patients [...]
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Holland Bloorview youth realizes a dream – a highlight on adaptive technology
With determination, imagination and a lot of specialized skill, Holland Bloorview’s staff and clients are revolutionizing the way technology and equipment enables children [...]
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Rouge Valley offers surgical follow-up over Skype
A new program offered for surgical programs at Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS) is allowing patients to get the follow-up care they need [...]
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Rouge Valley asks community to Be A Donor
Organ donation saves lives – just ask Brandon Gibson. The 20-year-old Pickering resident was three months old when he was diagnosed with cystic [...]
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A Major Milestone for Heart Transplants
If they weren’t such a modest lot—and if they hadn’t been quite so tired—you might have heard the sounds of celebration at the [...]
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Nurses meet with politicians in the community, and at work
For the last 14 years, registered nurses (RN) have visited Queen’s Park to meet one-on-one with MPPs and cabinet ministers. Dubbed Queen’s Park [...]
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What is the purpose of a Power of Attorney for Personal Care?
A Power of Attorney for Personal Care (“POA”) is a legal document in which an individual can specify who has authority to make [...]
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Leadership, research and renewal at St. Michael’s Hospital
Before I talk about our renewal project at St. Michael’s Hospital, I want to take advantage of this column’s publication in May to [...]
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Behind the Mask
Christine Erickson is no stranger to the operating room. For 10 years she worked as a Perioperative Nurse before embarking upon her current [...]
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St. Michael’s Memory Disorders Clinic
When she was in her late 60s, Diana Pritchard began noticing that her memory wasn’t what it used to be. She’d forget to [...]
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Home is best: Are you ready?
As the RRSP deadline looms, many Canadians are thinking about retirement planning. Chances are you are wondering whether or not you’ll have enough [...]
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MOVE ON: Why rest is not necessarily best
Although many people believe rest is best during a hospital stay, mobility actually plays a far greater role in recovery. “A lot of [...]
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RVH’s Cancer and Palliative Care Unit…
Mark Johnston hugged his wife Sheri Lynn, for the last time. She was unaware of the embrace. She was already gone. In the [...]
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Broadening access to specialized care: The growth of telemedicine connects patients to the caregivers
For nearly 13 years, Providence Care has been the hub for telemedicine in southeastern Ontario, connecting patients from distant communities to [...]
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