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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...